Eyes are sharp, hollow, held back by biting anxiety. Creature of Goddess Grace stamps upturned soil, circled in the hollow of the woods.
Circled irises, shift sharply to the edges of trees, and shift sharply back to the hollows between them. Stamped in the fractures of colour in graceless eyes are clawmarks of anxiety.
The petrichor scent of soil rises like the rotting scent of moss, upturned. The predator and prey react the same. Fractured role - their eyes the same: sharp.
The graceless beast grinds the petrichor of cracked earth, and stamps the rotting emotion away.
The prey and the predator will not dance today.
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This is more poetry than anything else, this failed experiment. But, with trial runs come trial conclusions. We amend formulas and methodologies, and we try again. I present you a recipe:
The prompt was 'Repressed Anger as a Gazelle in the form a scratched record', following the syntax [human emotion] as [natural image] in the form of [geometric quality (shape, functionality)].
Method:
1. Analyse the form.
Scratched record: I envision circular (spiral?) progression with slips into repetition.
2. Analyse the human emotion.
Repressed Rage: a self-defiant act that dissociates the self.
3. Analyse the natural image.
Gazelle: Graceful herbivorous creature.
4. Represent the abstract in the concrete.
The gazelle reflects timidity of mind in the face of rage, but also the triumph in the escape (if it does, escape, that is).
The Rage is a silent predator, and it hunts the gazelle.
Repression - the gazelle and the predator are embodied together.
5. Represent the concrete in the abstract.
- which is to say, write a story. Have fun.
6. Reflect on the successes and the failures of the form.
The story tends more toward poetic penchant than abstract art. It's not clearly expressing any constructivist qualities. Re-asses the formula.
Surrealism is present, but not prevalent. Re-asses the method.
7. Sleep on it.
Naps are always good, and today's mysteries are tomorrow's masteries.
8. Try again.
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