Cellar Dwellers


m u l t i m e d i a – a i © 2024 Jay Schankman

ℭ𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔞𝔯 𝔇𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔯𝔰 Is the name we give these people, though there are as many names given as there are societies that we encounter. In the adopted language of my planet, we refer to them all this way with no ill intent.

It’s just convenient, I guess, a vestige of our tribal history. When you are dealing with large populations you tend to generalize. It is our job to get the finest details.

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Creatures Underfoot

psychedelic creatures walk surreal landscapes
Creatures Underfoot ©2024 Jay Schankman

Creatures Underfoot dwell in the molten margins of reason — radiant, wriggling things that pulse with color theory and cosmic nonsense. They bloom from spores of sound, coil around vibrations, and whisper to your soles in a language made of shimmer. Beneath every reflective puddle, every rainbow-spit swamp, they gather in parliaments of paradox: some shaped like flowers that walk, others like thoughts that bite. Though microscopic in myth, they loom large in hallucination. Step lightly, dream brightly — the soil thinks back

Midjourney 6/Luma

All the animals in the zoo now.. You are one too!