Spiral by Chipka
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It began as something else, but its nature was hard to discern. It was a photograph. Once. It wanted to be something else.
There was music in the background: something soft, brooding, and somber…something to cajole a stubborn Muse into whispering, at least…or talking, if luck stands beside a particular artist. The music helped. The Muse whispered, but not in words. A Muse may speak any number of languages. Wordless songs are one of them and so brooding violins marked the Muse’s voice…a throbbing gong added final punctuation. The Muse was music on the night that this image came into being, but when the image found completion, the Muse was snow, blown on a cold, fitful wind.
A story has since evolved from the musical whisperings of a particular Muse, but the story is incomplete. It isn’t like a Gwotian entu that finds beauty in the absence of a finish; it is a short story, a novella, if enough words come. It is a story concerning Gwot, a story concerning Haiga, a story concerning kites. It will find completion, but until then, the jagged, fractal swirl of…something will add punctuation to brooding music that plays, even as these words are committed to digital paper.
There are other cousins to the fractal in my gallery, but the share only basic traits in common with this one. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I’ve enjoyed making it, as much as my musical Muse seemed to enjoy whispering it to me, late, late, and later into the night.
As always, thank you for viewing, reading, and commenting, and I hope you’re all having a great week.
Comments (15)
fallen21
Excellent work.
kgb224
Outstanding capture my friend. God Bless.
durleybeachbum
Very good! I find I prefer to work in a cathedral like silence nowadays.
Faemike55
Very lovely work Chip and interesting narrative
flavia49
great image
MrsRatbag
Sometimes I think stories don't really need endings. It's much better to feel that it's continuing on another plane somewhere, if you know what I mean. What awesome music, I guess there's another soundtrack I need to acquire!
moochagoo
Interesting work on that painting
helanker
I happen to like soundtracker music, as it usually has its own style... kind of. I liked most the last part of this piece of music, because there I somehow could recognize the tracker music, I have liked for years. But this piece fits beautiful to this mysterious and amazing piece of art. :-)
treasureprints
Interesting fractal, and I enjoyed listening to the Thor soundtrack.:)
gonedigital
Wonderful! So textural and deep. Love the touches of blue and green.
KatesFriend
There something very primal in this image. When I think of stories which rely on virtual reality - 'Tron, 'The Matrix', 'Videodrome'... (all rip offs of Doctor who of coarse) - I often think of the heart or source of these realms. What would their 'kernel' look like? The small ball of logic which allows all other things a computer does to occur. The home for all the basic rules that writes the entire universe. Then replicated to every part of the realm, change a rule and you change the that universe everywhere and through out its history. Like a strand of DNA, buried beneath layer upon layer of instructions, concepts and architecture and all controlling nevertheless. Your spiral is a bit like that to me. A black heart, a centre of mystery from which all things emerge. I once sifted through some documented source code for an early version of X Windows (actually what was to become X Windows). There is a place deep in the code where even the well informed author cites 'here be dragons'. A place of great importance but impossible to understand.
MagikUnicorn Online Now!
Gorgeous abs love this :) Come see SPECIAL EVENT AT NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
RodS Online Now!
That's really cool, Chip! A wonderful abstract!
sandra46
SUPERB CREATION!
auntietk
I love the blue-green of the spiral. It sucked me right in! :)