Fractals rendered in three dimensions instead of two. This will include all the items in the City Scapes category as well.
Sometimes you fall. Sometimes your world turns to ashes around you. While the burning, the loss, and the pain of it kills part of you, it does not mean the end. Instead it just marks the turning point of the hero’s journey.
This means it is time to settle the past.
To leave ashes what must be let go. Do not dwell on them.
You can rise from the ruins of what was full of fire and new life.
“When everything is lost,
and all seems darkness,
then comes the new life
and all that is needed.”
~ Joseph Campbell
A phoenix captured in the moment of its rebirth, exploding into life.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~ Gautama Buddha
Inspired by an alternative concept of the Tree Ship in the Fountain. A mix of the Zen concepts explored in the movie with the proverbial Fountain of Youth.
A city of storms. Some say it is the palace of the King of Frost and the Keeper of the North Wind. Others say the Winter Queen spent the end of her days here. Whatever the truth is, it is a place lost to time and legend.
Inspired by the Frost King by Christ L’Etoile aka Stormwalz.
Fragile cities made of clouds. Inhabited by gaseous lifeforms for the gaseous terrain found in the upper layers of Saturn itself.
All the colors in this image were taken from one of the images released Cassini returned from Saturns Rings from the 2007/2008 era. These images spared discussion of what a native life form to Saturns clouds would create as a home.
“Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind’s singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star. “ - T.S.Eliot
A reminder that even in times when the world seems ashes that there is often a solemn beauty to what remains… to what is true.
Somewhere in the South Pacific a dead god lies dreaming. An underwater corpse city of nightmares.
Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”
Clawing upwards, beyond what he has wrought below; Mankind rises once again; dreaming of the stars.
Inspired by the Tower of Babel and Warhammer 40k’s Hive Cities.
A slumbering city, long forgotten and eternally obscured, finally breaches the clouds.
A study in fractal isolation.
“All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.”
– Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation
Somethings slumbering in the depths, waiting for the right conditions to hatch. Alive but unborn. Waiting, watching….
Perhaps some challenge between alpha predators on the surface will give them cause to leave the nests?
Inspired in part by the Muto eggs in the 2016 Godzilla movie, but with a more Cthulhu-esque bend.
