{"id":1265,"date":"2026-04-23T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miljenkosimic.com\/mishimi\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:19:08","slug":"kris-kelvin-arriving-to-the-solaris-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miljenkosimic.com\/mishimi\/2026\/04\/23\/kris-kelvin-arriving-to-the-solaris-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Kelvin Arriving to the Solaris Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gouache on paper 42 x 30 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always thought the two movies haven&#8217;t done justice to the wonderful Stanislaw Lem&#8217;s novel Solaris, so I thought of visualising a moment in it the way, perhaps, the writer himself may have seen it during the time of writing at the onset of the Space Age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/4492955758\/kris-kelvin-arriving-to-the-solaris?sh_rv=1&amp;ref=shop_home_active_1&amp;logging_key=f60732a7f43e46a8da574471d741f85aa4807686%3A4492955758\">here<\/a> on offer. 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