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Since I started a trend with purple and blue in the last image I posted here, I thought I’d continue it with this violet fiery eye muse. Perhaps some of you may remember this same image, but in different colors: orange and yellow primarily. This is a different version of it.

It’s amazing how just changing the colors of an image can create an entirely new experience with a work of art. That’s why I love exploring many different variations on a certain theme, or composition.

I used a lot of different materials, both digital and physical materials, in the making of this series. I used some portions from my painting The Fabric of Life, which are essentially the bright flower-like structures, and I also used some graphics from Islamic mosaics for the background in the sky. These patterns can be associated as leaves on trees. It’s a visual vignette, if you will.

There are trunks of trees near the bottom which add to your impression that you are looking at a landscape, though quite alien in perception. The title is Worked Organic Fire implying the “fire” that courses through all of life, working it in organic, energetic, and ever renewed ways.

Though this image was created back in 2011, I pulled it out just this evening, and reworked a few things to render the results you see here. It attracted my attention because I had also been reviewing some philosophical ideas of mine concerning structure.

It seems like most everything people make or create is designed to increase structure, safety, security, understanding, protection, and stability. This goes for language, and the standardized understandings contained within languages, idioms and all.

I noticed this structural tendency manifesting in many of my digital art works. It’s almost like I’m on a search for security with the adventures of my mind. And I want to share these way points for you so that you may also experience the abstract stories I embark on as well.

With this particular piece, it looks like there are four pillars leaning towards each other and towards the center of this image. Pillars are symbolic of long lasting strength. In ancient Roman and Greek times, pillars were used for governmental and religious buildings. They were designed to give the people of the land a sense of continuity, stability, strength, and safety, if not even democracy.

It looks like you are looking down at the pillars here however, and their leaning perspectives are aimed outwards towards the corners of the picture, while the tops of them are leaning inward. This triggers the sense that perhaps perspective, as we understand it, isn’t always one dimensional, and that it could, perhaps, be multi-dimensional in other alien perceptions.