We were the leaders of the new, our closed travels brimming, enraptured, in the allure of the ancients, whose simple times—baked in violence—shook us from our desert comas and outward, onward onto uneven sands; ours was the flight and passage of a bygone time, flirting with eternity on the threshold of creation: surveying it all, collecting it all, knowing we would never have to survey the battlefield, its collective relics, of which we are one; whose furrows, made silent by the idols of passion, of sunken pain, released and permit us to see into the light of things.

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Sand melting off of walls. A still wind, moved by convection, shifting nowhere; into itself. A sun beats down, awash in gamma rays.

Elsewhere, a chimp’s hallucinations send rippling showers reverberating throughout a colourless void. There is no life here; no compounds to thrust and form: phoenix-like greases in the wheels of Infinity.

So sits the deserted world, its silent sands lifted and dragged; eager, awaiting, tensed in tingling anticipation of the oncoming pulsive vibration.

Primeval rhythms tumble outward. Their forms are not elegant. Theirs is of logic / illogic, yet to be formed; a primordial soup of ideals.

The birth of a paradigm; the death of a void.

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“ The sun swept high in the sky of the metropolis – dreaming, like ‘who on top of this?’ "

The sun beats down on sheets of metal. Stone-cold metallics; a contour of industrial mass. The sun does not warm the bolts and steel, which bead with particle evaporation, creating a layer of wetness which sits atop the striking permanence of celestial rigidity.

The beams of dense metallurgy sit sinking in the sand. All around, the sun’s rays pull prismic vapours from the desert’s soil, as in the steel complex form beads and bands of moisture of metallic perspiration.

A sweating mass sits sun-struck & immobile in the desert sands.

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(Below are some brief thoughts on the effects on creativity in the Information Age, taken from one of my miscellaneous writing journals).

He would still see the Matrix in his sleep… ripples of logic unfurling across that colourless void.

The Information Age is creativity in flux: the impulses which drive the creative process now exist not in isolation, but in relation to a myriad other inspiration “nodes” throughout the vast pseudo-consciousness of the network at large. An individual inspired by a particular piece of media would, within the context of the Information Age, be inclined to see connections between that individual element and several other elements spread throughout the entire information network. As such, divergent thinking plays an essential role in the process of experiencing inspiration in the 21st century; one’s thoughts branch out past the immediate object of inspiration and seek out all the various seemingly-disjointed elements which relate to it in some way. This enhanced / heightened use of divergent thinking plays a key role in the formation of ideas within the 21st-century information paradigm. But divergent and convergent thinking are two sides of the same coin, and both are used extensively in the inception / creation of Information Age Art. Whereas divergent thinking is required to make visible the subtle relationships which exist between separate information / inspiration nodes, convergent thinking is required to re-assemble these disparate yet subtly-related elements into a coherent and artistically relevant whole. In other words, divergent thinking finds connections, while convergent thinking explores the meaning / significance of these connections. { Divergent and convergent thinking are essential to all creative processes, but are unique to Information Age Art in one crucial respect: degree. The reach / extent of divergent thinking is greatly enhanced by the virtual omnipresence of the Internet, which in turn impacts the extent & nature of convergent thought & its artistic / creative outcomes.

An Inescapable Perspective - New Worlds (download)
by Luke Collins and Jason Fernando
Image by Jason Fernando, based on concept art by NASA

Cosmosis - New Worlds (download)
by Luke Collins and Jason Fernando
Image by Jason Fernando, based on photographs taken by NASA
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