The Skin of Shai-Hulud, one of the pieces of art in the Children of Dune Folio Edition is the only piece of art, drawn or cinematic, that has ever captured Leto making the ultimate sacrifice to begin The Golden Path.
Clarcq has captured the unearthly tone of the scene, as young Leto, infused and saturated with more melange than any human has ever consumed, adjusts his body’s biochemistry, to become a symbiote with the sandtrout, the early life stage form of the sandworms of Arrakis.
Each sandtrout he places on his skin solidifies his vision of The Golden Path until at last, as he says, his skin is not his own.
For 4500 years Leto and the sandtrout skin will slowly evolve, giving Leto the time he needs to forever change the human species so that it can never destroy itself or be wiped out by an external threat. That is The Golden Path.
She’s selling the original oil art for this piece, but it is far most costly than I could ever put down on a piece of art these days
But maybe someday.
Artist: Hilary Clarcq – https://hilaryclarcq.com/