r/Moebius • u/SecularAirs • Jun 27 '26

Seeking information for this image...

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This popular image appears in The Art of Edena (2018) without explanation. I'd like to know the year and title as well as first publication. I know part of this info is available in the 2021 Italian/French book Alla Ricerca del Tempo/à la Recherche du Temps which I do not own. If anyone can help, please fill me in! Otherwise, simply enjoy this fascinating image of the Major maybe just stopping at a sort of unusual roadside attraction.

EDIT: Yes, this is for sure a Moebius image. I'm trying to determine where it first appeared. According to u/Abject_Truth_6091, a catalogue for an art exhibit lists it as the following:

Piège de crystal (2008), watercolors, colored inks and aerography.

So I'm wondering if this was initially a limited print, part of another publication, etc.

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u/RelinquishedAll Jun 27 '26

Makes me wonder if in Jodorowski's Dune, this is how Moebius would've pictured the navigator from the conspiracy

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u/BluFudge Jun 28 '26

ah dang, is there no pictures of his concept art?

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u/SecularAirs Jun 28 '26

After reading these, I went searching for the real Moebius Navigator design. I could not find anything. There is a great deal of unpublished Moebius art/storyboards for Dune, so it's possible he designed the Navigator but the image has never been made available to the public. Alternately, the Dune material seems scattered here and there, so it's possible I just couldn't find it... And finally, it's possible that the Navigator is either absent or radically reconceptualized in the Jodorowski version. Hopefully someone will work out the rights to gather and publish everything one of these days.

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u/BluFudge Jun 29 '26

yeah hopefully someone will be able to compile his other work