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‘Patterning in nature’

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A journey into this new mode of consciousness gives one a marvelously enhanced appreciation of patterning in nature, a fascination deeper than ever with the structure of ferns, the formation of crystals, the markings upon sea shells, the incredible jewelry of such unicellular creatures of the ocean as the radiolaria, the fairy architecture of seeds and pods, the engineering of bones and skeletons, the aerodynamics of feathers, and the astonishing profusion of eye-forms upon the wings of butterflies and birds. All this involved delicacy of organization may, from one point of view, be strictly functional for the purposes of reproduction and survival. But when you come down to it, the survival of these creatures is the same as their very existence-and what is that for? by Alan Watts. 

Artwork was created in virtual reality software Gravity Sketch, stylised in DeepStyle, upscaled in Upscale.io, edited in Photoshop, video edited/exported in Premiere. MP4. 1920 x 1080 pix.

‘WatchdØg’

What happens when mankind is ready to leave the cradle and seek other worlds? Who can you leave behind?

...the earth shook and the sky split as the giant rockets lifted the soul and body of man to Pluto and the distant stars.

Only he stayed behind.

Basically he was six hundred square miles of squat building, with control over a world-wide network of smaller stations and probes.

A babysitter.

From WatchdØg, by Jack C. Haldeman.

Published by Ultimate Publishers in 1972.

Artwork was created with a mix of Ai tools.

Music by DenniswithY -  GrünerGrasshalm

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‘Gendo symbionts’

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Gendo symbionts are crafted well before conception, but each symbiont must develop the skill to modify themselves beyond their original designs to earn a rank worthy of the higher needs of a Gendoji. That a human could work as a sensorial panther at all was damn near impossible. My rising as high as a third felt better than any of the academic trivialities that consumed me before I joined Pax. Alina never fully understood that, never saw past the mucus and the Worm in my chest.

From The Death of Pax by Santiago Belluco

An anthology ‘Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation’ 

Published by Upper Rubber Boot Books.

Artwork was created in Artbreeder & upscaled in Topaz Gigapixel Ai.

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‘Synthesized wisdom’

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The reaction of most cultured people to the idea of gaining any deep psychological or philosophical insight through a drug is that it is much too simple, too artificial, and even too banal to be seriously considered. A wisdom which can be “turned on” like the switch of a lamp seems to insult human dignity and degrade us to chemical automata. One calls to mind pictures of a brave new world in which there is a class of synthesized Buddhas, of people who have been “fixed” like the lobotomized, the sterilized, or the hypnotized, only in another direction-people who have somehow lost their humanity and with whom, as with drunkards, one cannot really communicate. This is, however, a somewhat ghoulish fantasy which has no relation to the facts or to the experience itself.

‘The physical world is a vibration’

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The physical world is a vibration, quanta, but vibrations of what? To the eye, form and color; to the ear, sound; to the nose, scent; to the fingers, touch. But these are all different languages for the same thing, different qualities of sensitivity, different dimensions of consciousness. The question, “Of what are they differing forms?” seems to have no meaning. What is light to the eye is sound to the ear. I have the image of the senses being terms, forms, or dimensions not of one thing common to all, but of each other, locked in a circle of mutuality. Closely examined, shape becomes color, which becomes vibration, which becomes sound, which becomes smell, which becomes taste, and then touch, and then again shape. (One can see, for example, that the shape of a leaf is its color. There is no outline around the leaf; the outline is the limit where one colored surface becomes another.) I see all these sensory dimensions as a round dance, gesticulations of one pattern being transformed into gesticulations of another. And these gesticulations are flowing through a space that has still other dimensions, which I want to describe as tones of emotional color, of light or sound being joyous or fearful, gold elated or lead depressed. These, too, form a circle of reciprocity, a round spectrum so polarized that we can only describe each in terms of the others.

by Alan Watts

Artwork was created in virtual reality software Gravity Sketch, stylised in DeepStyle, upscaled in Upscale.io, edited in Photoshop, video edited/exported in Premiere. MP4. 1920 x 1080 pix.

‘Lusiica’

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from 'Transdimensional beings' series. 2015-2020 

‘Kokugon’ 

from 'Transdimensional beings' series

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