Crowns of the Cosmic Dead
Submitted to Mystic Minds Magazine. This is a science fiction and fantasy entertainment magazine. They are looking for sci-fi and fantasy themed short stories (up to 5,000 words, pays $5), artwork, photography, 2-page comics, and serialized role-playing adventure stories centered in the genre of modern pulp.
Here is my blurb that I included:
My artwork should be published in Mystic Mind because it embodies the magazine’s spirit of surreal exploration and cosmic imagination. The piece blends a Basquiat-inspired rawness with futuristic sci-fi elements—skeletal figures, spacecraft, and crowns drifting in a dreamlike galaxy. It speaks to themes of mortality, transcendence, and the collision of ancient archetypes with advanced technology.
The drips, neon colors, and layered symbols create a hallucinatory atmosphere that invites viewers to decode meaning while also leaving space for mystery. It’s not just a visual piece—it’s a portal into the subconscious, where mythology and futurism collide. That tension between life, death, and infinity resonates deeply with Mystic Mind’s ethos of expanding perception and challenging the ordinary.
Created in Basquiat-style brilliance, with inspiration from an artist I’ve been learning about.
Titled Crowns of the Cosmic Dead
it captures the royalty-like crown motifs, the skeletal figures, and the vast, surreal space backdrop while keeping a poetic, mysterious tone.
