#wavebuilt

my entry for Christian Faber's and Duckbrick's Rebel Nature WaveBuilt contest:

Seafloor Geothermal Energy plant Coral Reef

"A relic from the old world, this facility was built to pump up magma to the sea floor and use the temperature difference with the surrounding ocean to generate electricity. The largely self-sufficient plant has kept on running even without maintenance but something has changed.

Over time, the warmth emanating from the magma tubes have attracted life not usually seen in this part of the ocean and the geothermal plant has now become a colorful coral reef. The once abandoned facility is now teeming with life."

I built this in Stud.io with a lot of intersecting pieces, rendered it in a few separate passes and then assembled the final image using those renders and some more drawing.

(The black square is an electronic chip. I wish I made it easier to see.)

I wonder what they're thinking about.

Neurowebs feed on who knows what. Does it have a gastric system somewhere?

Neurowebs connect to all kinds of organic matter. By any chance, they connect to other chips. Those chips hold whatever.

Inspired by the concept of cultured meat and chip to brain communication, I was led to a place where organisms don't have to be individual creatures. They can be in a state of transition between many identities.

Given the modular nature of chips and nerves/webs, there are multiple ways of implementing them, from wildlife to tool, to character to decoration or even full landscape. I imagine there must be a chip somewhere that tells the webs to grow indefinitely.