I normally just post a final product, never going into the amount of time and effort it goes to the end product. The creative process and journey brings forth a gestalt... at least in my mind. I create as I go, more or less, and usually its and abstract thought or idea of that which I am passionate about. Other times, I'm playing around with a technique and it develops into something i could not have possibly imagine, if i never took that very first step into the unknown. I truly believe nothing is random. There is connection to all things. There is reason... there is purpose. Whether or not one sees it, feels it, tastes it, hears it. It is there. It may seem that something out of the blue may have happened, but even chaos there is sound reason and mathematical expression. Some of which we can account for, but the majority will escape our grasp for eons to come.

with that said let's take a look at my most recent journey to "niner6tree"

I was amazed by a recent post from an art school in Ukraine, I forget the who, what, when, and why of the poster. Please, forgive me, but time is something a find I have the least resource. If you, remember, drop a line in comments. Any-who, they stacked lines to make cool looking geometric icons or half pyramids and I wanted to do something similar so I made C line or an open sided square and scaled each one to form what looked like the top of a four sided pyramid. Something of which I have an utter fascination with, but that's for another time. I posted it as a question "how many squares" and it was a trick question as it had really only 5 squares the rest were the stacked C shapes and one could argue that there were more, but it was merely a trick on the mind. I made some other projects along the way but the geometry of the technique, I just couldn't shake the thought. So a stacking and scaling I a went.   

Literally, 180+ layers of gradient triangles and squares at resolution 3000px x 3000px at 600ppi. Accumulating, about 6.3GB of hard drive space. Not to mention, a plethora of "would've(s), could've(s)...." until the 'Gestalt' reveals itself. 

Here's one I thought was la finale. finite...

I called it "Holy" comical jab of sorts, but more a reference to a popular Youtube-dot-com's physicist's "hole in math." Another light bulb: what if I stacked it and blended it down with Adobe's flavors of lighting techniques and boom i came up with the below image "don't be squared"

Took me a several days to finally wrap things up. I've notices the breaks in a project: life, work, children, parents, spouse, they never really get in the way of a project. It may seem so at the first. But rather, they actually add to the creative process. An essence of their time which contributes to numerous feelings: angst, anxiety, haste. That really become the part of the consciousness that is the final product.  And in the case of "niner6tree" the name comes from aviation lingo. It also plays on tesla's 3, 6, 9, theories, as well as referencing time in the form of a the clock hands with a line towards 2100, 1800, and 1500. Military time was not a random phenomenon, but more, nomenclature and .tif saving to hard drive. As you could see, least on my mind is a good nomenclature system. Shows the type of person I am right there. I ended up scaling three 180 layer sqaure, the first to fit inside the larger square and doubling up the larger sqaure to get cool blends of shade and lighting ultimately summing up the product of which it has no resemblance from where it actually started... Gestalt? maybe not but for the very first time I kind of am proud of this expression of: 50 shades of Gray meets tesla's 3 6 9, of course the elaborate explanation to down play...

 the essence of pure geometry and minimalism.  

Anyway, if you read this far, Thanks! This passion of mine is worth the single comprehension of thought exponentiated by this light hitting the eyes of the next person and so forth. Although, we are as far away from singularity as an ant conquering the universe, Someday the superbeings our collectiveness creates will have this very post balls deep in the beginnings of their infinite minds. To them i say... "Suck-eth to be-eth you-eth." Knowing everything must totally f'ing suck. Wouldn't anyone agree. Thus, this tangential summary just proved that ignorant bliss and omnipotent hard drives are one in the same... i kid... and bid you adieu.