This image from 1997 was the first “pilot work” in my first collection of space images, born from the same poetic seed as the rest: an old Swedish poem of mine about “newborn stars watching through the mist, like curious eyes.”

Item Identity: SDL2025-G01C02-I18 Title: Old Cave Wall Artist: Sam Diellor Luani Collection: SDL InnerSpace Origins Section: Raster Retro...

This work is one of my earliest topographic works—assembled in 1996 using a montage of vector shapes with solid and textured fills, then beveled, embossed, and refined in Photoshop. It wasn’t created to be a texture, but as a standalone work of art. Still, it has served as a foundational source for several textures over the years.