This makes a nice soothing image. I take it by color manipulation you mean on the computer, might be interesting to see a un-altered picture of the work. I like the simplicity, I usally over complicate my work trying to convey a concept.
by the way whats the dementions of the piece?

It is fairly small, approximately 12 inches wide and six inches long (or vice versa). I will post the original right now. thanks for the positive feedback.

So, listen to much TMBG?

'Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When he's underwater does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows, particle man'



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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

Thats exactly where the title came from. Good on ya! I had a triangle man too, but I can't find any photos of it. ...

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Bummer-I was going to ask if you'd done any of the other characters, Universe man would be awfully damn cool sculptin'd.

Do you still have Particle man? My son's 10th birthday is coming up and he loves TMBG-it would be a very unique present...

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

For some reason, I can't visualize Universe man. It's too big a concept for my little mind to grasp.

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Drat-that's how I feel too. Like trying to draw god-our conceptualizations are just too small to portray a presence that encompasses all things.

Still, it's interesting to think about-stretch our little minds a bit.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

I guess a good universe icon would be an amalgamation of a spiral and a hole, depicting several elements found in space. Galaxies and black holes. So maybe some inward curling spiral to a big nothingness interspersed with peppery celestial objects. Perhaps those objects can be found naturally in the stone (the medium I probably would utilize for it, go figure).

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Stone is actually a good choice, not just 'cuz it's your favorite medium, but it's also quite *universal*. Spirals came to mind immediately for me as well, since they go inwards as well as outwards and Universe Man isn't just about exterior vastness. I like the idea of objects within too-it would have to be intricate and simple, delicate and raw at the same time, somehow. Perhaps involutions and convolutions, like a fractal but not so complex.

I saw an incredible sculpture once that came close. It was a bronze woman, life-size. Her belly open(a smoothly rounded window-like hole) and her inside a deep sapphire, scattered with points of silver-white. I suppose the conception is fairly obvious, but she stunned me.

I love it when art does that. Just grabs you by the heart, makes you stand and gape wordlessly for a few precious moments.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin