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| Year of creation | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 100 W × 50 H × 2 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | surrealism |
| Genre | animal |
| Materials | oil, canvas |
| Type of packaging | cardboard box |
Description of the Artwork “Surveyors”
The Surveyors are beings devoted to a task that borders on the impossible: they map the worlds. Not a single world, nor a finite system, but countless expanses—continents without edges, silent steppes that stretch beyond sight, fractured moons, and drifting satellites that wander through dark and uncharted skies. Each attempt to define these places collapses under the sheer scale of them. Distances shift. Landmarks refuse permanence. What is recorded one cycle is already wrong in the next. And still, the Surveyors continue. No one knows where they came from, or who first gave them this purpose. Some claim they were created by an ancient intelligence that needed order imposed upon chaos. Others whisper that the Surveyors themselves no longer remember why they began—only that they cannot stop.
Artwork in the interior
Ed Schaap, Netherlands
My name is Ed Schaap, I was born in Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands in 1965. As a child, I already showed a penchant for fantasy and science fiction movies and series that were shown on television at the time. Especially around the time movies like Star Wars and Alien came out, I was fascinated and fascinated by this unknown world. As for the art that I create, I have to say that I have been influenced and inspired by certain artists and concept artists, but over time I have found my own way. The works that I create are, as a rule, subjects from history, myths and legends, as well as things from everyday life. I give my own vision. In the beginning I used an airbrush. At a certain point, I started to miss a few things in my work. While experimenting with the combination of brush and airbrush, I realized that the painterly effect of brushwork was the missing element in my work. With these two components together in my recent work I find the result satisfactory. Despite this result, I also started painting with oils. Here a completely new world opened up for me, for example, the colors obtained with oil paint are almost impossible to create with acrylic paint.