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The Devil’s Venn Diagrams

Like most people, I am absolutely terrified of fractals.

They’re The Devil’s Venn Diagrams. They’re the black dot in the sky in the moment that you realise it’s actually a hole. They suck you in, fascinated with the detail – until they pole-axe you with a blade of ashen horror – when you realise that you’re looking at something… big. Too big. So big that it can engulf the whole planet, the whole universe just by yawning and stretching – you’re not even there/here. You’re already part of the pattern. You are one of those little spirals. The Devil is in the details.

So anyway… they were containable enough when confined to two dimensions – they only trap you if you specifically invited them in…

but then this turned up:

fractal1

fractal2

fractal3

OMFG, no… that’s too much. And it’s too late – now it’s awake.

You really ought to take a look at the site though – like all truly great sites it looks like it was made about 10 years ago… you can click through to massive versions of the pictures. A-Mazing.

Still… Brrr

fractal4

fractal5

Like a Geiger frieze or that thing on the wall at Satan’s apartment in Devil’s Advocate with Keanu Reeves in it, and that one with the pointy nose who’s quite pretty actually, although she did go a bit mad at the end.

This is what I was talking about when I went on about Terrifying Psychic Leakage with reference to European Religious Decor during the Baroque period… similar to the way electric charge concentrates at points and corners… every point and corner has grotesque detail extruding from it.

Mind you – the Catholic Church always has had a nice angle on Satanic art – everything from this:

columns

to

capuccini

to

pope

Oh no. You don’t fool me. Not for a second.

he

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2 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. “Terrifying Psychic Leakage with reference to European Religious Decor during the Baroque period”

    Brilliant. Such a truism. Well observed. And regarding the above, brrrr.

  2. Colin

    A great big organic thank you. You find what I want to see. Onwards.

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