Time Made: December 2006
I don’t recall which fractal graphics program I was using when I made this. There was a period where I was testing a whole lot of free art programs (aka the poor art major in college period) and I didn’t keep track of such things.
This was one of those that had random permutations available from a random starting point that you could click through until you liked what you saw. So I started clicking, aiming for simple shapes, and ended up with this.
…Am I the only one who actually finds this a little creepy? I think it’s the combination of the distortions within the shape, which are a bit hallucinatory, with the one strand of the aurora-like shapes that bleeds out into the center of the circle. And I said bleed quite deliberately.
Not that I’ve ever really been in a hallucinatory state. I’m just not the type to go out of my way just to change my mental state. It’s weird enough already. I haven’t even been sick enough to get to the mind-altering states. Closest I’ve come is occasional spurts of vertigo and times when I’ve had far too little sleep and food. Neither of which change colors for me, just shift my perception of how fast the world around me is going. The vertigo’s the fun one, since the world keeps moving even when I stop…
