about

welcome to the nethergrounds... a place where imaginations exist as reality.
the nethergrounds (formerly known as ars imaginaRe) vaults a collection of dreamscapes, which I had created in terragen. The imageries that you'll find here are products of my imagination that were inspired by dreams, fantasies and tales shared by people who had the same interest in displaying their thoughts as well as their dreams.

the nethergrounds is a world of dreamscapes, a place molded by thoughts, twisted by reality and questioned by actuality.

most dreamscapes featured here has been brought out by moods and emotions we experience throughout our lives. dreams are meant to be remembered and these dreams, no matter how strange they may portray, do tell tales that needs to be retold. nethergrounds has found a way to re-tell these tales, compiling and capturing them in still images for you to experience the world they hold.

ars imaginaRe was launched early february 2002 as a gallery site of my dreamscape creations done in photoshop 5.5 and 6. all images where done manually at that time and it would take me hours just to make one.

I discovered my likes for terragen accidentally while trying to join the digital landscape web ring, I tried to download the software out of curiosity and found myself hooked ever since. in about a weeks time after launching ars imaginaRe's 2nd edition ("fallen Icarus") which was created entirely on flash, Ive decided to recreate the whole site again thus, "seeds of lore" came out as its 3rd edition, this time the site featured terragen works instead of the usual photoshop images.

ars imaginaRe 4th edition ("a dreamwalker's rebirth") became a terragen site and was released later that following month. everything was changed, but the essence of recreating dreamscapes that started it all remained.

weeks after the 4th edition was released I grew busy and decided to leave ars imaginaRe in stasis for the following months.

after four months, I finally have decided to give my terragen site a new look for the coming year (2003).

december 2002, nethergrounds was created, a new name for a new outlook. I have decided to come up with a new name to give my dreamscapes a new home. the whole site was renewed with simplicity (crisp-black backdrop, simple flash animations and easy navigation) along with new added features. why call it nethergrounds? because I wanted to name that out-of-this-world place where my creations are said to exist. nethergrounds is like the "other world" where no man has gone before. it is an unexplored world created only by dreams and imaginations... nothing more.

let yourself be your own overseer and your own tales teller as you go on deeper in a realm which I call the nethergrounds...