Throughout the life of the spikes i have always done drawings of them, but the ones that really took off was the planet spike illustrations i created. And from that this project developed, where i would continue the story of the spikes to answer once and for all what they truly were. So i better tell you what the story is of the spikes are what they are, as some people may have figured they have to be growing out from somewhere and your right they grow from a central core. That would be to easy an explanation so i will explain more for you, they are a disease that infects the host (in this case the planet) and slowly grows until it breaks through the surface. this carries on until he host cant take the strain being placed upon it and it "dies" in a spectacular fashion, it starts to break apart until all that remains is the thing i have been calling "the spike" is left with the remains of its host floating around it. I feel that this is a good story for the spikes and help me finally answer the question "what are they?", so with out a further adue here are the pictures.