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?”

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It took a while to create something with some semblance of the ugliness of the thing I dreamed about, but a few fractals and a few dust mite legs helped along the way. I have photographed pond scum, spiders and other things trying to capture some texture or pattern that would convey the ugliness, but whenever I have looked at the photos later, I have found them to have beauty. The pond scum had fractalesque patterns. The spiders were symmetrical and athletic, with handsome patterns and textures. It wasn’t until I saw a magnified photo of a dust mite that I felt I had finally found repulsiveness captured in a photograph. It was the dust mite’s tendrils, more than anything else, that conveyed the feel I wanted.

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