Many fractals excite my sense of wonder. The reason is this. I wonder what they really represent. I see every fractal as a visual mapping of something that exists in reality, just as surely as a bar chart in an Excel spreadsheet maps to business metrics. Some fractals that are very mysterious, beautiful and suggestive get me wondering what they map to. Maybe they are mapping to something that is unknown to anybody at this point in time. It could be anything. It could be the brainwave patterns of an alien. It could be the emanations of some form of matter even more obscure than dark matter.

This fractal made me write this note from the perspective of Blackbird. “I saw a nebulae. And I hurled into the heart of it. Again, the vision I saw was not something I believed a human on Earth would necessarily see were they able to photograph the inside of the nebula. I thought it was a visual representation of something else. What? But all that a photograph would be, would be external verisimilitude. Through a human’s eyes. With the spectrum of light that a human is able to see. From untold millions of light years ago. Would that necessarily be more real than the image I was seeing? Was I beginning to see differently?”