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Impact Impact

This is going to be sort of like a science lesson, so bear with me...If you look at the gelogy, you would notice that your volcanoes are not of the same type (which is actually how they are formed in real life sometimes). The one in the background appears to be a cinder cone, and relatively young, whereas the closer one looks halfway between a shield volcano(like Hawaiian volcanoes) and a composite cone. The smoke billowing from the cones, is a little dark, since it is actually not smoke but immense clouds of steam, generated by the boiling lava releasing water from he rocks into the air.Also I'm going to mention that the lava flows do appear to be thin, but then again this is not a depictionof actual volcanoes, so in a possible alternate universe the viscosity and spread tendency of volcanic magma might be different, so not much to say about that. The scorched vegitation in the far left foreground and far right midground adds an insidious feeling to the artwork, and creates a vibe similar to that of the carbonite chamber on Bespin (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back), with the multitude of dark colors. This also reminds me slightly of Pandora's Box. According to the story there was many malevolent spirits (including death, disease, and old age) in the box, which was actually a cermaic storage jar, which are represented by the dark, forboding theme of the piece. However there was one benevolent spirit, named Elpis, the Spirit of Hope, which is represented by the light emenating from the left side of the work.