“Samurai,” another scan from HR Giger ARh+.
Back when I was a teenager obsessed with the Alien Tetralogy, I used to imagine there were numerous castes of Space Jockeys adapted to different functions in their society. This was one of them.
"you told me what you were going to do. and i promised to do the same thing too. and the air, the air in new england was pure poison."
-John Darnielle
“The Magus” by H. R. Giger. Scanned from the 2001 Taschen medium paperback reprint of HR Giger ARh+. I no longer own the 1996 large paperback printing, which would allow for better resolution but might be impossible to scan. I’m sure you find these details fascinating.
Spiral inhabitants by *Sugarflesh
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Sugarflesh is an artistic joint project developed by the illustrators Liran Szeiman and Martin de Diego Sádaba.
“Biomechanical Landscape VI” by H. R. Giger. Without clues to its scale or context, I had interpreted this as the control room of a semi-organic spacecraft. Having discovered the title, I can see this as an alien city or perhaps a community of colonial organisms akin to graptolites.
A painting by John K. Snyder III (based on the creations of H. R. Giger) which appeared on a card in the Aliens Predator Universe series produced in 1995 by the Topps Company in association with Dark Horse Comics. This depicts a member of the biomechanoid civilization from Alien, which is due to be revisited in Prometheus. The pyramid in the background is based on a concept painting for an early draft of Alien in which the eggs were found in a building on the planetoid’s surface rather than a spacecraft that happened to crash there.
