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DarwinismOf storms and ink smears:
deviated perceptions
of evolution

Swirl amorphously
without (and within) blank eyes
and the cold-coffee

Cups of paycheck drones,
balanced between dark and light
precariously.

Convergence of Mind + MatterA man, four walls,
clad in clinical-wasteland white
and his recurring dream
of the End.

Cut
to visions of
altered infinities,
distorted dimensions rushing through
spiral-painter personae;
of shadow-worlds
captured in shades of
black and blue.

What lies
without is within:
symbiontic symmetries of
fractured imaginations and
a frantic Institution.
Patient & place
converge

- In labyrinthine
caves of decay, myriad wards
doused with the sullen pallor
of flickering flourescent
recollecton:
halls of malfunction-machinery
spewing harsh white noise,
a baleful ambient
dissonance through dead-end
thoughtways that

- Cut.
What

Astral ProjectionA tale of premature births
and phenomena: of brick-red light
in the flurrying night, and miracle babies
encased in white-noise machinery
(that's shooting to the stars).

The first lights
are always the brightest:
A lunar entrapment greets newborn cries
in the (ampi)theatre; appliance-white
audiences sound alarms of appreciation for
twitching limbs and erratic heartbeats
brought forth (too early) to this planetary
stage of enchantment.

Six weeks short would turn to
six feet tall, and with life-flashing
mental movies my plot-circles revolve;
exposing galactic mysteries with
a grim resolve:
And it goes a little
something like

0mega Over,
it's over,
over and over and
over again.

It's over I know,
and it just goes to show
that what's happened before
will happen again
as we lie on our backs
and dream of the end...

Two nights on from the Fallout.
forty-eight cycles of this battered hour-hand,
and still the fires from the East burn bright in the night.
upon these hills, home is a macabre panorama;
a parody of surrealist daydreams.

Against this scene, hands clasp.
I look around, and down, then back into those eyes.
"This is the end," I say. "We're nothing in the face of this--"
An interruption, as another tower falls to ground
like so many broken

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Photography / Abstract & Surreal / Abstract

©2005-2013 ^arctoa

^{Updated 29/11/2007 @ 11:17

^{^{Location: Shiremoor, Northumberland, England
Date: 15/10/2007 @ 23:35
Light Conditions: Indoors/Pitch black
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: 17-85mm kit
Focal Length: 85 mm
Flash: --
Flash Mode: --
Shutter Speed: 1/25 sec.
Aperture: F/5.6
ISO: ISO-800
Filters: --

Post-work: Crop / COlour Balance
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I couldn't decide whether to title this as something going on inside our heads or something going on in deep space; it's fairly amorphous in composition which is one reason why I am fairly content with it.

Anyway, this was captured in October 2007 for a college assignment that was investigating long exposures. However, it's somewhat ironic that the best image from that photoshoot happens to be one with a relatively short exposure time. The only other capture from that session to be uploaded is Eta Orionis with a 30-second exposure. It's interesting how the same subject can be depicted in such different ways.

Regarding the two-year disparity in submission dates, this gallery slot once contained an image trying to capture a similar concept but infinitely less-successfully. It seemed logical at the time to directly replace it.}

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~creativsis Mar 28, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

My interpretation is an egg and a dozen or more sperm trying to get into it, if I am not too blunt. I quite like your gallery

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^arctoa Mar 29, 2013 Student Photographer

_{Ahah. It's certainly an image that is open to interpretation. Thank-you for taking the time to comment, it is appreciated.}

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~creativsis Mar 30, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Glad I did then! Tehe. (:

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*Cygam-7 Feb 19, 2013 General Artist

I always find these fascinating

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^arctoa Feb 19, 2013 Student Photographer

^{Yes indeed, they're great to experiment with even without capturing the moments.}

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*aerendial Feb 10, 2013

featured in journal 'creation/reaction' [link] so enjoy!

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^arctoa Feb 10, 2013 Student Photographer

^{Thank-you kindly.}

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~imperterrito Jan 30, 2013

You have a wonderful gallery! Nice to meet you.

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^arctoa Jan 31, 2013 Student Photographer

^{Thank-you kindly, it's appreciated.}

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~LutherBash Jan 14, 2013

Magic, well done!

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