Newborn Stars With Poetic Roots
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This image from 1997 was the first “pilot work” in my first collection of space images, born from the same poetic seed as the rest: an old Swedish poem of mine about “newborn stars watching through the mist, like curious eyes.” These images were meant to serve as visual companions to a series of space poems; an art collection for a poetry collection. The reason I selected this image for SDL InnerSpace Origins, is that it, as an early draft, holds its own charm—enough to be offered freely, while the others, due to their more delicate structure, are more suitable to be minted as NFTs, in the common composition of SDL InnerSpace.
What sets this piece apart is its layered construction. The radiant center and swirling nebulae weren’t conjured by filters or plugins, but built from edited original vectors—an artistic choice that runs through the entire series. This first image is the only in that series where I have used a single filter: a radial blur applied to the nebula, which itself was derived and vectorized from one of my most mined fractal images. That fractal has been a creative bedrock since the 1990s, spawning countless organic textures and cellular grids across decades of digital art.
