This is what I imagine an alien would look like if I used today's technology to see it, remotely, on the astral plane, while working within the confines of material, in a pre-technological environment, which I then used to introduce the image to the technology-consuming public.
An alien, as seen in material, in imagination, and in the future.
The challenge in painting something that can never be painted is that the context of its material must be created.
Oil, acrylic, and photography on canvas