Jasper Joppe Geers says:
Well, here we are, back again at the Up Close section! And what a way to be back from holidays...

To tell the truth, Space Needle reminds me about a crossover between the Keys to ascension series and the Ladder image. If this would be a national park I think you could find the other places in the neighbourhoud...

Can I ask you a question? Would you please take a look at the huge flying birds in the middle?
Then take a look at the image Roger painted for Wakeman's Return To The Centre Of The Earth.

Ok now, close your eyes, and try to imagine if you were taking your girlfriend or your grandmother for a walk over here... Don't be afraid...

I believe Roger took this image with him on one of his exhibitions he did. I think it was a true pleasure for those who have seen it! For myself, I always like the blue coloured images of Roger. Just like the Image for Tetris Worlds.
It is once again a stunning picture to me!
What do you think of the purple construction? It reminds me of the birdcage hotel in the Blue Desert image. It is interesting to find those similarities in several paintings you know.

Can you tell me Roger, do you ever sell this one?

See ya next month!
Jasper Joppe Geers

bob says:
It is now my wall paper

Armando Díaz says:
If I ever walk on the souht side of the sky, I wish it was like this.

Luca BONFANTI says:
I very much estimate the Yes and Roger Dean imaginary world

Carlos Cisneros says:
What you can say when you see a brilliant piece of art?
Thanks God [for] send[ing] this man to the earth.

Gabriel Rhodes says:
This painting is really beautiful. If I could see it, I would want to see it right away.

Enrique López says:
¡Excelent! Roger has been able to create a surealist world taking landscapes only existing in his mind. I admire him as painter, architect and designer. Please keep on creating things like these.
¡Congratulations!

Phil Nicholas says:
My heads in a different place, I think Joseph, because although there is an almost prehistoric feel to the picture I find the draw to the mind is more primal, a sense of fecundity and the drive to procreate. Like the dragons.

Yanuly Sanson says:
Well, I take on the oportunity to ask Roger for an explanation of what does all the symbols on his paintings mean, the thin rock bridges, floating islands, tranquil water courses and so on.  I think a self-analysis of his  symbols would approach us closer to his mind/being.
About the painting:  I would hang it beside Whelan's cover for the Martian Chronicles and Roger's own Blue Desert; the long sky and those stylish flying dino-dragons are superb!

Joseph Morse says:
I remember first seeing this in a Rhino records store. For some reason I remember it being green instead of blue. Maybe it was the back of the cover. Anyhow, I was pleased at this approach to his artwork which has always been somewhat futuristic to me. I thought it was interesting that he put what I think are pteranadons in his painting, mixing some of the prehistoric with the futuristic. Then again that sort of goes hand-in-hand with the dragons.