It's some of the most beautiful artwork I've seen. And it always looked and felt like more than art.
The shape -imbedded in it's substrating geo-matrix of difuse dots- almost seems to explain both: itself, and the very nature of reality as you gaze into it.
It also seems to do this through all four parts of my human cognitive syntax. Study the Human Cognative Syntax, then look at this shape and you'll see what I mean.
The meaning of this cover art comes in through emotion, qualitative perception, logico-mathamatical syntax(as there must be math and logic to the shape), and finally through space-time-object syntax(because unlike a simple singular line, dot, color, or texture, the artwork shows various multiples of all these attribute classes. Much like an "event within reality" does.)
Every situation within reality has multiple, and various: attributes, perceptions, viewpoints, and dynamics at play. Being able to accurately represent all of them in one isolated production as a whole; is no less than ability to present the actual truth of that situation. This shape does that.
In events "the truth" is always a multi-faceted infocognitive construct. Observe the difference between the concept of "intel" in the intelligence community, and the concept of "journalism" in the news media community. Intel is self-reinforcingly: "as truthful and accurate as possible -with no chaff, narratives, or irrelevant commentation." If not, your affiliates die.
In news media, or press journalism; if you simply fail to generate more veiws, or maximum public and government attention to a narrative..... your ideas die. Thus news media and press joirnalism is self-reinforcingly "as provocative, imprecise, irrelevantly edited, and commentated as possible -with every intention of convincing others to act where the jornalist noblely should have acted themselves to mend the situation."
Point is. "Truth" is a critical topic in the CTMU, and the cover art seems to deliberately don a cool, calm, yet various set of attributes and dynamics. Which is pretty much how the truth is: when you're at peace with reality. Even if you're seeing things go in the wrong direction you can be calm about it. Langan does that, because he knows how to disseminate truth from falsehood no matter what is in front of him. This is just one ability you must craft to become a real human being.
I could never locate an explanation of the CTMUs cover art or any of the other covers.
I don't get much time to read. On top of that I limit myself on reading time, otherwise I don't feel right. I have heart, muscle, and hands for a reason. Bearing that in mind here's what I gather of the CTMU's cover art:
A prominent CTMU proponent once told me to look into "noeons" which is the smallest quanta of "infocognition"; or "self-transducing information". Information that not just explains itself, but precives, and understands itself the moment it enters your consciousness. You witness this with your own councisness, and thus understand, and precieve the self-transducing packet of information on a subconscious or intuitive level. I am tempted to think that infocognition might be responsible for intuition, and instincts.
So is the CTMUs cover depicting a noeon? The smallest irreducable unit of infocognition and councisness.
Or is it an abstract representation of the terminal domain through the Global Operator Descriptors eyes, from it's own point of veiw within the non-terminal domain? As if you -the reader- are being taken hand and shoulder by God, and shown what he's doing with reality.
As more over: God created you in his own image; precisely so that you could understand what he is doing with reality - and in a very similar manner to his own preception. All so that God can better coordinate with you, to self-evolve in accordance with his own will, which will again be very similar to your own will.
That is self-actualization if I'm not mistaken. It's very similar to what we do as humans beings with our technology, math, language, lifestyles, regimes, cultures, traditions, and philosophies. I think that nature -including humans- is akin to God's technology, and evolution is his form of automation.
That's my own interpretation of the CTMU's cover art. I've also stared at QMM's cover art for minutes at a time; and had similarly relavent revelations. Again, these revelations are far more precise, cognitively explicit, and wholeistic then when I'm looking at any other form of abstract art.
Am I going totally schizophrenic here? Or was this artwork ment to mean something without being explained by the author?
Anyway. I'd like to hear some other folks interpretations, beit they are as honest as possible, as I have done here. Meaning try not to bullshit yourself as you gaze into the shape. I find the more I do that the clearer, yet deeper its meaning becomes, and it just reinforces itself over and over.