To be permitted entry to this planet, the group of friends had to agree to publicly share two recipes from Earth. The scene on the right shows Dominique’s father, Gustaf Gegenwind (in this painting clean-shaven), demonstrating in a TV show setting how to bake “Allgäuer Seelen,” a Southern German proto-bread. “Schwein in Wein” (a pork belly stew in white wine) is announced on the black chalkboard for the next day. Both are my personal favorites. While the proportions of the ingredients for the Seelen are disclosed so that everyone could recreate them, my wife did not allow me to share the pork in wine recipe quite so publicly.
The girl with the blue-white striped T-shirt is Emily. Dominique does not appear in this painting.
The green monster figure behind the TV studio backdrop is a portrait of Joe, a dear friend of ours (heavily fattened and distorted to make him alien monster-ish).
The little dog with glass helmet and snorkel is one of Joe’s son’s dogs.”
Note my application of icon-painting principles: Gustaf is shown taller than Emily (because he is more important for the scene), although they are equally tall in real life.
The spaceport of the alien planet.
On the very left, one of the very few mechanical time machines of the Goggol Universe.
The UFO hovering in the foreground belongs to our group of friends. It’s a former gift from extraterrestrial friends, and the Goggols from Dominique’s hometown also use it for excursions on Earth. Normally, a cloaking device keeps it invisible, but a few years ago there was an incident: a complete engine failure forced the pilot to make an emergency landing in a small town. Unfortunately, the UFO became visible for several hours late at night and was immediately vandalized by local teenagers who didn’t know it was piloted by Goggols and not by aliens.”