A ridiculously long title but that's what it is a drawing of. A few years ago there was a brief period where I was fascinated by black holes. As a child I saw Disney's The Black Hole (great in a weird way..although wildly inaccurate) and always thought it was mind blowing how they even exist. So I ended up reading JP Luminet's book Black Holes and became obsessed with them all over again. This one was drawn after work at a bar on a Starbucks' napkin that I happened to have on me (which has one of the ugliest shades of green logo on it).
This is the first piece I sold at the show I was in at The Laundromat Gallery in NYC. I had no idea if anyone would get the whole elaborate drawing on napkin thing, but a few did. Anyway, Da Vinci has always been a huge influence. The pages of his various codex have fascinated me ever since my first exposure to them. I was lucky enough to see the Codex Leicester in NYC. I do not write backwards as he did, but I enjoy the look and writing out notations about the works.
The first time I saw Metropolis was the fascinating yet not terribly true to the original idea 1985 Moroder version. I still think that version is awesome in its own Hindenburgian manner. Soundtrack and story (what was left of it) aside, the visuals came through loud and clear. This drawing is but a doodle of the impression I have from the film. Cyclopean monoliths with Tesla generators with a mathematical matrix at its center. 
