Digital-Art on Stephen Fell

If fish were people

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last summer was the first time we’ve been dip-netting in almost 11 years. So we’ve been eating our haul of salmon almost once a week this winter, which is probably a net positive for our health. We’re already making plans to go again in the summer, but I couldn’t help but think, at least for a moment, what if the fish ate people?

Time lapse of a fish vacuum packing people.

The secrets of self expression

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One day I was in the bathroom, washing my hands and with a quick glance down at the sink, I realized that the spacing on the cold and hot water faucet handles appeared to be about the same as one’s eyes. And at that moment I began imagining myself wearing the faucet on my head, almost like a pair of goggles. And I began to think about the symbolism of the water creating a feedback loop from the brain to the eyes and back into the mouth. Maybe I’m drowning in my own thoughts? I don’t know. I will leave that up for interpretation.

Drawing weird things in Paint

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I had a weird dream last night so I sketched it in pencil first, scanned it into Microsoft Paint and then added lines and colors, exporting the progress frame by frame into the animation above.

The whole process didn’t take too long - in the morning I sketched while drinking my morning coffee and later on I spent about an hour and a half doing the animation.

It’s kind of fun to do these!

A Severed Subsea Cable

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We were at the beach earlier this fall at Pt. Woronzof in Anchorage and came across a rather thick cable sticking out of the water.

Here we see a thick braided copper cable with a flexible polymer insulation layer and an outer jacket. My guess is that this cable carried power over to Fire Island at one point in time.

Then kids started throwing rocks at the piece of cable sticking out of the water and I managed to capture one splash right at the base of the thing… and I imagined it like a worm coming out of the water… because I really like Dune.