Red's Kingdom

Admittedly, this response to the idea of ‘Kirlian auras’ (the prompt for The Kick-About No.150) is a bit of mish-mash; hovering about in the background is some half-remembered artwork or illustration from one of those big coffee-table books of unexplained phenomena popular back in the 1980s, and by association, something about ‘alien abduction’ or the associated idea of ‘men in black’. Throw in some inter-dimensional portals, event horizons, reapings and Bermuda triangles and you get somewhere close to the provenance of these images.

They were created simply enough; scattering the surface of a scanner with little plastic people and dropping in different backgrounds for texture (including, but not restricted to, and old Pyrex roasting dish!). I didn’t clean up the scans, but brought them straight into Premiere Pro (video editing software), as there are filters in that software for splitting RGB layers etc). In short, after some straight-ahead mucking about, I made a bunch of iterations, a selection of which I’ve included here.