This piece is derived from Ataraxy, an addition to my Micro-Chimerisms series, that I created last July (2015). I made several other variations from Ataraxy, but I felt this piece was the strongest. There are four other versions of it stored away for future viewings, projects, and shows.
I titled this structured melange Planet Hunting. I did so because the abstract mechanical object on the right of the picture plane looks like it could be a strange observatory that has several arrows pointing in a spread of degrees as if they were moving skyward. There’s a circular object in the upper left of the picture plane possibly suggesting a planetary body.
I like the notion that this image communicates the idea of aiming high, of shooting for the sky for one’s dreams. The dark background gives the mood that probabilities abound in the mystery, in the folds, in the countless unseen waves of space and time. There are what appear to be pillars on the lower left indicating an ancient civilization. Could it be Greek, Roman, or from the civilization on another planet?
Comparing ancient historical columns to textual columns was done half intentionally here. As I mentioned, this piece is derived from Ataraxy. I developed the columns, not from my original drawing, but by manipulating, copying, and combining new elements on to new picture files. It just happened to be that textual columns stood readily behind the digitally assembled yellow columns standing in front in this version.
There’s a large caldron or round iron oven in the low center that seems like it could be the dominant center of interest for the entire picture. But the fact that it’s dominant color is blue makes it a cool retreating hue. The yellow in the mechanical observatory off to the right and the columns on the left advance on the viewer as a louder warmer color balancing out the play of all the included shapes and objects illustrated.
Nevertheless, the round, blue, strange oven-like object still looks like it’s in the foreground, even though it’s primarily colored with blue, and secondarily, red. Perhaps it could be a steam engine, implying an abstract steam-punk setting. I like some steam-punk styles, but that’s not the core approach of my style, and the ideas I want to communicate to you. I like exploring imaginings of abstract alien technology, and obscure, archaic equations forgotten about in the vacuous, unfathomable echoes of our universe, and perhaps alternate universes.
I drew brackets, deltas (triangles), half-circles, and circles in different formations relaying my ongoing love of mosaic styles. As you may know, mosaics are how I see most everything when something is broken down—or seen—in its smaller elements. I like knowing what things are made of, and color coding helps me identify each part or element for the orders of greater and greater constituencies. For example, all the different organs of the human body are assembled into one unique organism or individual.
Of course we could explore the non-physical entity that animates and holds an organism together according to biological scientist Rupert Sheldrake’s theories of morphological resonance, but I recommend listening to any one of the talks or interviews of Sheldrake that you can find on Youtube. He implies that organization is done by non-physical intelligent design.
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