Fractals inspired by various Fantasy themes.
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.
“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”
A slumbering city, long forgotten and eternally obscured, finally breaches the clouds.
A study in fractal isolation.
What does Time look like from the point of view of those that traverse it non-linearly?
A matter of clocks and wheels, all in harmony, none showing the same time.
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton
– T.S. Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night.
Inspired by a doodle given to me by a fellow artist and storyteller, and one of her favorite poets.
A young girl who played a Warlock in a certain MMO decided to make a bet with me. She asked for a fractal that could be her character’s summoning circle. And she wanted it in pink, because her mother hates pink.
A conduit to a constructed fantastical land.
Perhaps we need to become Alice once in a while?
“Eyes I dare not meet in dreams.” ~ T.S. Eliot
Loosely inspired by my fiancee’s obsession with a certain anime series at the time.
“Life is a journey; weather traveled by foot, by wings of magic, or only in the mind, the voyager must always move forward. To stand still is to be lost.
Or to be forgotten.
I am unsure which is worse. “
– Ariq al-Binara of Frostfell
