Dagobah Comes to Life in This UniqueStar WarsArt Piece

If a significant dowry of your sentence is spent cruise popping culture websites , you ’ve consider roughly a million different piece of Star Wars art . You ’ve understand allthe real post-horse , sports fan posters , esthetic interpretations , parodies , and on and on . Star Wars artwork is everywhere . And yet , with this new piece , creative person Daniel Danger has actuallycome up with something unlike , and io9 has your exclusive debut .

Danger has teamedwith the Bottleneck Galleryto relinquish a piece call “ … will he polish off what he start ? ” an rendition of Luke Skywalker arriving on Dagobah that ’s useable as a 14 colour screenprint , or as one of three custom framed , multi - layered shadowboxes . you may check out one of the shadowboxes , provided to io9 by Danger and Bottleneck Gallery , here in our exclusive unbox video :

As you could see , this is completely unlike from the usual posters and prints that are released , and a real standout piece of music even in the land of Star Wars posting artistic creation . A piece like this is only potential if you ’ve been making screenprints for a recollective time , and Danger has — over 20 years . And in that time , he has forecast out what kind of art he likes to make , and how to take a dealership as saturated as Star Wars and do something new with it by crusade the mass medium .

These Star Wars shadowboxes by Daniel Danger are hand crafted and awesome.

These Star Wars shadowboxes by Daniel Danger are hand crafted and awesome.Image: Lucasfilm/Bottleneck Gallery

“ My illustration style is very much about the open space , the surround , the location and trying to be as immersive as possible , ” Danger severalise io9 over email . “ I ’m never gon na be the guy who can wad every fictitious character , ship , vista , and moment every fan loves into a single image that sums up the whole film . I ’m just not in effect at that . But I felt like I could make these small ‘ Iconic Scenes in a Box ’ style expiration , in the nervure of the concept art book I swarm over endlessly as a kid , to the full screenprinted and handcraft and with actual depth and all that delicious parallax movement ; and they could be something special and fresh in a very , very crowded and already extremely well covered enfranchisement . ”

io9 is solely debut this spell , on sale flop now if you flick over to theBottleneck Gallery site . There are three shadowbox editions — Blue , Green , and Lavender — all of which are 12 x 18 inch , 18 color screenprints , covering the desktop art and three laser - cut bed . Each will be framed in a custom Natalie Wood shadowbox with spacers , with optional upgrade for collectors who need some extra protection . The green and lilac-colored editions are limited to 125 and 175 pieces , severally , while the blue variant will be a timed press release available until Sunday January 30 at 11:50 p.m. EST — meaning they wo n’t go out of stock , and Bottleneck will produce as many as are sold in that timeframe . The jet is $ 375 , lavender $ 350 and timed $ 300 all the optional $ 20 museum glass upgrade . you could also see more cognitive process shotson Danger ’s siteabout creating the shadowbox , and watch out a behind the scenes video as well .

If the shadowbox is a short too much for you , you could also get Danger ’s artistic production as a standard 12 x 18 inch , 14 coloring screenprint for $ 65 , in an variation of 275 pieces :

A finished shadowbox in the studio.

A finished shadowbox in the studio.Image: Lucasfilm/Bottleneck Gallery

So where did this thought come in from ? Considering the way of the world , it ’s probably not surprisingly that covid-19 act a use .

“ When covid shut down so many mean value of yield and printing process for artists , I started brainstorming and looking at what machinery I could afford to make for into my studio apartment to have SOME ability to do short - extend things in - house , ” Danger say . “ I initially bribe my first laser ship’s boat for an etching idea that merely did n’t pan out for efficiency reasons , but after a crash class in vector artwork , I saw the potential in bringing actual physical depth into my work by shorten and stacking screenprints . ”

“ I did a few personal work shadowbox pieces for a show at Rotofugi Gallery in Chicago , and absolutely loved the final result and had so many melodic theme about how to improve it , ” he continues . “ I had already had a sketch of a Star Wars Dagobah piece worked out with [ Bottleneck ] before any of this , but was having a lot of false starts . Once I took that study and reconstructed it for this shadowbox format , it all clicked . ”

“…will he finish what he begins?” by Daniel Danger