DREAM SEA

“Dream Sea” By Nick Ringelstetter

One of the most beautiful things about creating art is pushing your own boundaries and surprising yourself with the things that you bring to life. This is exactly what Ringelstetter experienced when he brought “Dream Sea” into existence just two years after he began painting. Using watercolors for the first time, he managed to give this two-dimensional piece depth without any shading, effectively tricking the brain into seeing more than is really there.

Being a passionate believer in different dimensions and wormholes, our artist used those concepts as inspiration to depict what it might look like if Earth’s satellites were sucked into another realm. Dazed and confused, the satellites orbit the beach, trying to discern what to do with all of the information they’re collecting in this new world, while the characters below marvel at these foreign objects flying across a futuristic skyline.

Ringelstetter believes this piece to be the first painting he created completely from the subconscious, as he can’t quite recall what drove him to make this. He allowed his muses to speak through him as he continuously and tirelessly layered airbrushed watercolors over the canvas, boldly trying to see what would happen as more and more were added over a week’s worth of time. When the voice inside his head told him enough was enough, he painted on the framing, keeping the subjects lost in this painting forever so that Ringelstetter could hang this world above his bed as a reminder of what he’s capable of.