9 February 2024

Rock hard. An island lapped by lava oceans. A seal licks a wand. A centaur’s stern gaze. A bearded clam shell. Red sand on the shore. A cautious mouse. The irregular shape of a flower floats above a surface of pixelated fire. The flower seems like a sticker, its surface is semi-gloss and smooth, and it lacks depth. It speaks in a different dimension compared to the fire surface. The fire seems more gentle and ordered, than the flower, which is a hard messy chaos. The fire forms a square space, while the flower, though irregular, also has a square shape, more or less, round at the corners, but it is not aligned with the fire. The flower has a fussy, overworked aesthetic. I see a classic sixties beauty, like Jackie Onassis, within the petal folds. The flower is made of creatures and demons and faces and smaller flowers. The smaller flowers normally have five petals each. The flower, overall, is opaque; there is no sense of transparency. Its surface is muddied and dull. I am trying not be an aesthetic retard, though sometimes i wonder if I will ever make any progress.