From Dread to Discovery: Creating Sci-Fi Art That Defies the Monday Blues

Mondays are universally terrible. Everyone over 18 knows exactly what I mean. Even Sunday afternoons carry that same creeping feeling—like your brain is already picturing the Monday morning shower and the hour-long commute to your job. You feel it in your stomach. You feel it in your mood. It’s a subtle twisting, a quiet dread that settles in long before the workweek begins.

If you’ve been living like that for 10 or 15 years, something inside you starts searching for a different way to start the week. For me, that shift came through sculpture—specifically, the strange and speculative steel artifacts I call galactic fossils. It’s how I began transforming my Monday frustration into something tangible, personal, and yes—completely nerdy.

This Monday (June 2nd, 2025), I checked my Google Search Console. After a year of writing, building, optimizing, and hoping, I saw something unexpected: over 1,800 impressions on keywords related to my website. That may not sound earth-shattering to some, but for anyone who runs a niche art platform—from sci-fi sculpture to speculative design—it’s a sign. A ripple. A small meteor in the void.

To artists, entrepreneurs, e-commerce explorers, and all creative souls: you know that Mondays are typically dead zones for traffic. But this one wasn’t. This one felt like proof.

I’ve been pouring energy into vonhauerland.com and GalacticFossils.com, blending art, science fiction, and paleontology into sculptural objects that look like they were dug out of another timeline—or maybe another galaxy. And now? People are actually finding it. Searching for it. Clicking on it.

So, I want to extend a very real, very sci-fi-flavored invitation.

If you’re someone who obsesses over Alien, Star Wars, Terminator, Transformers, Venom, Marvel, or anything from the greatest science fiction movies and comics in history—this is your place. If you’ve ever felt drawn to the mysterious connection between imagination and the cosmos, or wondered how deep-space exploration intersects with ancient Earth fossils, then welcome.

My sculptures, and this blog, live in the space between creative freedom and scientific speculation. Between corporate reality and Hollywood imagination. Between Earth and the stars.

So if you’re done letting Mondays own you—and you’re ready to dream with us instead—you’re in the right place.

Let’s reimagine the universe, one artifact at a time.