What We May Learn of Truth and Flowers—full artwork and technical description below. Coming in 2025, The Origins of Time.
What We May Learn of Truth and Flowers
On a quiet summer morning,
you told me that you’d fallen
in love with someone else.
It was unexpected, you said,
but for me, it was no surprise.
I’d dreamt that you would
leave me, and dreams,
after all, are remnants
of the day.
I’d tried to make you happy,
dressed as a priest, a writer,
a poet. Written insipid
verses dedicated to you,
and summer’s last drops
in the wine glass.
The Sundays were when I lost you—
to choose between hyacinths
and Heisenberg, Feynman
and festivities.
We walked in the park, I nodded
and smiled, left quantum
theoretics behind, but reality
was never my forte, my weather
was always probability clouds
and wave-particle duality,
and you knew. You knew
I had no heart.
While I was planning
for tomorrow, on my way
to somewhere else,
when the rest was just
passing scenery,
our paths diverged.
I didn’t try to stop you,
didn’t try to rewind summer.
I don’t know why.
You will find yourself,
I will miss you,
and tomorrow,
there’s to be another day.
Coming in 2025, The Origins of Time: Where does time come from? Will my time machine work? What did Einstein get wrong about time? And much more, all with clear, commonsense explanations and diagrams.
Out now, illustrated poetry collection Texture of Silence, a collaboration with Eugen Bacon, and Purpose of Reality, illustrated collections of poetry and stories in two volumes from Meerkat Press.
artwork
What We May Learn of Truth and Flowers from my Beyond AI Project. Existing textures enhanced by AI’s StableDiffusion with EasyDiffusion run from an AutoIt3 script (ControlNet dominates). Eight-hour runtime on an NVidiaGeForce RTX4070 Ti Super graphics card. Evolved by the Visual Evolution Engine, my software that seeks unimagined realms, with cyclic nonlinear desaturation, ultracubism, and adaptive layered image synthesis. Art and poetry also on Instagram.
