the wheel turns and turns and turns and– - art i made for the @travelers-encore-zine!! please go check it out! everyone who contributed made such incredible works full of love for this wonderful game. i have a lot of thoughts on the symbolism of this piece and the themes of the game in general, but i don’t feel like rambling about them right now, so hopefully some of it comes through on its own. outer wilds i love u :) - edit: added the id!!
[image description: a digitally illustrated artwork of the sun, the hatchling, the ship, and several artifacts. the entire piece is inspired by the reversed/inverted rider waite wheel of fortune tarot card. the sun is in the center of the piece and is a bright blazing red in the center, turning to yellow at the edges. eight arms of blue fire spiral out from the sun, turning from fiery to watery in appearance at the ends. the hatchling in their suit hangs upside down in space at the top left edge of the sun, reaching towards the center of the sun where a nomai projection stone with the eye of the universe symbol floats. they are also clutching two nomai wall scrolls to their chest. nomai wall scrolls, a stranger artifact, a nomai mask, an hourglass twins projection stone, and a nomai audio recording device are scattered along the right edge of the sun. underneath the sun, the hatchling’s spacecraft floats upside down a short distance away. in the background there are scattered stars, several of which are exploding into tiny supernovas. around the edge of the image is a decorative border with abstract designs modeled after nomai architecture along the sides and the strangers’ architecture along the top and bottom. the advanced warp core is incorporated into the center of each of the side border sections, and there is a roman numeral X representing the wheel of fortune in the reversed position incorporated into the center of the bottom edge of the border. end image description]