An Osteoborg is a sort of bone-robot. This one has been evolving for a very long time, and has no memory of its origin. Its integrated into its environment and is perhaps gestating new copies of itself as nodules on its legs.

OsteoBorg 1

This drawing exemplifies a bio-technological fusion creature to be found in the distant future long after the time of humans has long past.  An Osteoborg is a sort of bone-robot, a surreal machine.  The upper portion of this creature is a sort of irregular mass of cubes composed of a bone-like material, while the lower portion is a conglomeration of robot or zooborg (animal-machine) parts.

OsteoBorg 3

AnthozoaBorg 2, 2020  Antheosoa Borg means something like machine-colony-life-form, or machine-coral.  The second in a subseries of living machine and exobiological life illustrations, this work includes elements that fuse plant machine and colony animal aspects.  The work visualizes concepts form evolutionary robotics, feral technologies bio-machine ecosystems and robot plant forms.  Although the creature in the drawing might be physically possible, it approaches surrealism: The rendering draws on academic realism but the subject matter boarders on the impossible.

The drawing was done entirely by hand with graphite on Bristol board. Calculations transforms and planar projections were done by hand or using slide rules and/or various other analog techniques.

AnthozoaBorg 2

Phyto Ost 3 is a quazi-surrealistic rendering of three tree-like forms growing out of an arid dried-mud playa.  The trees have orb-like crowns composed of filamentous boney cubes, hence the name Phyto Ost or Bone Plant.  These trees might be alive or they might be only skeletons of wood and bone, the last traces of life on an aging planet. 

This work was awarded Best in Show in a recent Gallery Ring show (May 2021), and was awarded 1st place fine arts division at the 2019 University of Arizona LPL Show.

Hand-drawn graphite on Bristol

Phyto Ost 3

Phytotessellost, 2020.   This graphite drawing show a three-lobed tree-like form with the lobes being composed of or tiled with regular triangles, squares, pentagons and hexagons.  These are randomly place in a quasi-Gaussian distribution, and further detailed as being formed of fused organic tubes or rods.

The drawing was done entirely by hand with graphite on Bristol board. Calculations transforms and planar projections were done by hand or using slide rules and/or various other analog techniques.

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Andrew Lincoln Nelson

OsteoBorg 1

OsteoBorg 3

AnthozoaBorg 2

Phyto Ost 3

Phytotessellost

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