title: The Complete Painting From the Source: Re-Enchantment of People and Planet Through Art
author: Aviva Gold
description: Aviva Gold MFA, CSW, ATR, Art Medicine Woman, is an artist, author, psychotherapist and facilitator of Painting From The Source workshops in prestigious centers worldwide. She believes that authentic soul-touching art comes from a divine place deep within and that the ritual of creating and viewing such art is central to individual and planetary healing.
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  **The Star Virus by**
  
  
  **Barrington J. Bayley**
  
  
  ## **I**
  
  
  Suddenly Rodrone understood why the scene before his eyes held such
  fascination for him, and why he returned again and again to worlds like this
  one. Lurid, offbeat and infernal, it offered the exaggerated symbolism of a
  painting rendered by a schizophrenic; and so drew him to that attractive realm
  of mental aberration where thoughts and actions could all be bizarre without
  feelings of shame…
  
  
  The landscape had the combination of sharpness and gloom that typified an
  airless planet, and the grotesquely large ruby-colored sun gave it a gory glow
  in every shade from dark wine to cherry red. Except, that is, for the river of
  molten ore that slithered down die side of a nearby mountain like a writhing
  white-hot snake, lighting up the gloom for miles around.
  
  
  The mining technique was crude but effective. A beat-en-up space freighter,