The_Raven on 29/7/2008 at 02:20
It's all about the Tron lines on the exposed breast tissue.
ZymeAddict on 29/7/2008 at 04:44
I don't know, she almost looks sad, which I just don't see as an emotion SHODAN would really have much to do with.
Otherwise, it's a great piece of fan art.
Kolya on 29/7/2008 at 09:38
Wow, I like that.
It might depict her last moments, not sad but dying. She's dissolving on the left.
ZylonBane on 29/7/2008 at 17:35
Click the link. You can get the high-res version there, and read the artist's explanation that it's supposed to be SHODAN trying to escape from a monitor.
Kolya on 30/7/2008 at 10:27
Hah, artist's explanations... Question is not what's the "correct" interpretation but which is the best, statements by the artist included. Whereby quality would be measured in terms of fitness for the object of art, imagination and eloquence.
Hermeneutical theory aside, SH2DAN looks quite young in this picture, more like a girl, and very weak (mouth), not as powerful as we know her. Her will is directed at the right side of the image, that much is clear (hand, eyes). But will she make it? Will she step out of the screen or dissolve back into it?
EDIT: The structure of her hair and the skin's energy lines suggests a movement that goes from right to left, a force that pulls her that way.
I rest my case.
kodan50 on 31/7/2008 at 05:33
I wonder if it (SHODAN) would choose a female body anyways? If the word Goddess only refers to feminine, then God being the opposite, is masculine. SHODAN might have been given a female voice as to maybe help the employees some. (Maybe give some kind of false sence of caring, or not wanting the endless months in space to seem too tense?) I often wonder what type of voice SHODAN would choose to have, or what form it would take, given a choice...
I don't know. Toy with this as you will. I don't recall SHODAN ever referring to itself as a "Goddess", only a "God". It implies to me that it might not be trying to pick a gender to refer to itself as, but choose the closest thing to omnipresent representation as we can understand.
RocketMan on 31/7/2008 at 05:39
I dunno about the dictionary definition or anything but God seems genderless to me.
