_There are no artifacts. There are only interpretations._

Glass is about the illusion of simplicity that cocoons us in our everyday existence. A glance at Glass may suggest a foam of bubbles or pebbles under clear water. But on inspection, these simple pictures dissolve. Instead of disks one finds stacked panes of translucent glass, intersecting and overlapping. There is dissonance between fine-scale chaos and the harmony of the aggregate. In Glass, two levels of reality -- panes of glass and the foam of bubbles -- are brought close together in scale, so that our oversimplified impression yields a palpable disquiet.

What appears simple is often anything but. Consider a standard wooden desk. To our eyes, it looks solid and continuous, but we know that it is made of atoms, tiny electrons orbiting nuclei. And these subatomic particles are themselves not like miniature solar systems, but creatures of quantum mechanics, stranger than we can imagine. The vast difference in scale between the atomic and the macroscopic hides this complex reality, but fundamentally it is the same phenomenon shown here.

Glass continues my exploration of emergence. While in previous work I explored how simple systems can create complex, emergent forms, here the interest is in the converse: how coherence is often deceptive, masking a complex underlying reality.

Glass draws on the aesthetic of Shin Hanga artists Hiroshi Yoshida and Kawase Hasui, and abstract expressionist Sonja Sekula. In live view, Glass has ambient motion: the shadows evolve, imperceptibly slowly.

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We were succeeding at creating a reflect of the old home place in our new land. We hoped we had not re-created our mistakes.

Utopia

Fushi ( Japanese for immortality / eternal life ) is a concentration study to help those who might need help to slow down in their lives, those who get lost in their thoughts, and those who need a focus point to stand up.

No Reality is an invitation to contemplation. 

It acts as a support to our emotional levels and aims to enhance our environment by guiding us into a meditation state. Both contemplation and meditation have proven to have a positive impact on improving mental and physical health.  

Consciousness, Healing arts, and spirituality, Fushi No Reality is a window through surrealities. A procedural immortal healing ritual unlocking our capacity to cure ourselves.  

Each surreality is forged from a real-time organic system running in an infinite and perpetual movement, crafted from chaos and noise-domain explorations. From a computing point of view, there is no distinction between visually random noise and mastered noise. They are both an output of the same algorithm perceived by our brain as a signal. From a soul point of view, the difference is the perception and what we, humans, do qualify as pleasing, perceptible, or intriguing.

Exploration, observation, and modulation are key to this vast pandemonium of chaos. A creative process to re-forge shapes we already observe in our world’s best inspiration: Nature.

This inspiration directed Fushi No reality towards Landscape art/cloth art mixed with vaporware aesthetics, slow movement, and peaceful color palettes.  A light beam travels through each surreality to guide a few voyaging spirits across the landscape. Portrait or landscape,  the surrealities are meant to be displayed in both ways, viewers may look at generative cloth swirling and sci-fi planetary landscapes.  

The more adventurous may move their cursor to the top or bottom to live a faster healing experience.

No one can bring you peace but yourself, but this time, let’s travel together.

フシハ、セイカツノナカデスローダウンスルテダスケガヒツヨウカモシレナイヒト、シコウ二マヨッテシマウヒト、タチアガルタメノフォーカスポイントガヒツヨウナヒトノタメノシュウチュウリョクガクシュウデス。

[Fushi no reality / フシノゲンジツ]ハ、シサクへノショウタイジョウデス。
ワタシタチノカンジョウレベルヲサポートスルヤクワリヲハタシ、メイソウジョウタイヘトミチビクコトデ、ワタシタチノカンキョウヲヨリイイモノ二スルコトヲモクテキトシテイマス。メイソウトジュクコウハドチラモ、シンシンノケンコウゾウシン二イイエイキョウヲアタエルコトガショウメイサレテイマス。

イシキ、ヒーリングアート、スピリチュアリティ、フシギノリアリティハチョウゲンジツヲトウシテノマドデス。フメツノイヤシノギシキハ、ワタシタチジシンノチユノウリョクヲトキハナツタメノテズクリデス。
 
ソレゾレノチョウゲンジツハ、カオストノイズリョウイキノタンキュカラツクラレタ、ムゲンカツエイゾクテキナハタラキデハタラクリアルタイムノユウキテキナシステムカラツクラレテイマス。コンピューティングノカンテンカラハ、シカクテキ二ランダムナノイズトマスタリングサレタノイズノアイダニクベツハナイ。ドチラモ、ワタシタチノノウガシンゴウトシテニンシキスルオナジアルゴリズムノシュツリョクデアル。タマシイノカンテンカラハ、ソノチガイハチカクノチガイデアリ、ワタシタチニンゲンガナニヲモッテ「タノシイ」「チカクデキル」「キョウミヲソソラレル」トハンダンスルカトイウコトデス。

コノコウダイナカオスノパンデモニウム二ハ、タンサク、カンサツ、ソシテモジュレーションガジュウヨウナカギトナリマス。コノセカイサイコウノインスピレーションノナカデ、ワタシタチガスデニカンサツシテルカタチヲサイケイセイスルタメノソウゾウテキナプロセス。シゼン。

コノインスピレーションハ、[Fushi no reality / フシノゲンジツ]ヲ、ジョウキセンノビガク、ユックリトシタハタラキ、オダヤカナシキチョウヲマゼタフウケイガヤクロスアートニムカワセマシタ。コウセンハソレゾレノチョウゲンジツヲトオリヌケ、フウケイヲヨコギルスウジンノコウカイタマシイヲミチビキマス。ポートレートヤフウケイナド、チョウゲンジツハリョウホウノホウホウデテンジサレルコトヲイトシテアリ、カンショウシャハジェネレーティブナヌノノウズマキヤSFテキナワクセイノフウケイヲナガメルコトガデキマス。

ヨリボウケンテキナヒトハ、カーソルノウエカシタカニハタラカシテ、ヨリハヤイイヤシノタイケンヲスルコトモデキマス。
ヘイワヲモタラスノハジブンジシンダケデスガ、コンカイハイッショニタビヲシテミマショウ。

Fushi No Reality - フシノゲンジツ

A minimal and geometric interpretation of a planetary system.

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[a    **W**    t    h     b  g  n  **r**  i  s   p **e** p o l e **together?**](https://assemblage.live/info "What brings people together?")
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