Some Art I've Made Recently

1st: Spheres of Nested Fluids, an image that came to me one day as I was thinking about something my friend said about Jesus being baptized, that being "the waters didn't change Him—He changed the waters." It reminds me of how, upon the moment of fertilization, the surface of the egg begins to ripple. A vast manifold of waves sweeps across the entire egg, a cascade of billions of proteins spiraling upon the egg, instructing it to begin the process of cellular division, or meiosis. These waves, according to the researchers performing this study, state that"...[their behavior] in an egg’s surface were the same as the behavior of waves in other larger and seemingly unrelated systems. When you look at the statistics of these defects, it’s essentially the same as vortices in a fluid, or waves in the brain, or systems on a larger scale...It’s the same universal phenomenon, just scaled down to the level of a cell" [1]. I wanted to show visually the different layers of this living animation of reality as we witness it in our universe, so I nested different layers of this pattern. From most interior to most exterior: human cell tissue, water caustic, the surface of the sun, a nebula, a rendering of the cosmic web arising from baryonic acoustic oscillations, the pattern of a caustic itself, and finally an endless flux. The Egyptian deific personification of the infinite waters, Heh, comes to mind.

2nd. Butterfly, a rendering of an encounter I had with a spirit. Her wings were stretching around me, and she was "holding" an orb before me. Through her holding, she was demonstrating the process of creation; I am reminded of the line from the Qur'an "He says "Be," and it is!" Same kind of situation. It wasn't what the orb was, but it was what wasn't the orb? She was instantiating a globular space of awareness within herself and concentrating it, and that concentration was what was bending the space before me into an orb, and the surface that was curving upon the orb was tessellated with an infinity of spheres and within those spheres was the exact same indescribable clear void space as the primary sphere. She was in cruciform. I find it significant that she was a "Monarch" butterfly, and that they die and are reborn. Lots of Christ-themes in her portrayal—she was like an Earthen Seraphim proclaiming the glory of God's throne. I am also reminded of the idea that Christ created the world on the cross.

3rd. I See It. This completely intuitively unfolded without much effort on my part. I haven't really dissected it, but I figure I'd throw it in here.

4th. Language Armillary Sphere. This is essentially the digital equivalent of a sketch trying to describe how I see the universe organizing itself.

Hope you enjoy!

edit post upload: just realized I uploaded the wrong version of the 3rd image. Oh well.

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