The idea for Blue Void came to me one night while lying in bed when, suddenly, like a fever dream, I felt as though I were falling. That sensation transformed into the feeling of swaying on the waves of an ocean. I began imagining the sound of the water, and I felt myself becoming one with it.

This is the blue void – an infinite ocean in a time before existence. Though calm and unthreatening, it is a completely unstable environment: empty and lonely. Yet somehow, within it, life emerges.

Cells divide and form small organisms that expand into the emptiness. Soon they transform into larger clusters and build colonies. They are calm. But life does not stop there. The colonies evolve into more complex shapes, almost beings. What was once calm turns hostile as clusters tear apart and struggle to absorb one another. Some expand, others die, until eventually a vast network – like neurons in a brain – is formed, spreading across the blue void like a blanket of webs and clusters.

It is calm again.

Then, from below, a red glow illuminates the ocean. It rises, and a red orb slowly tears through the clusters. Ominously, it lingers above the surface. Suddenly, it attacks, and, like an infection, the red spreads through the network. The clusters fight back, yet they are only fighting themselves as more cells mutate and the infection corrupts them from within.

The network tries to move on and exist despite the red clinging to it, dragging halfsevered connections behind. It attempts to remain calm and deny its corruption, but soon the mutilated clusters begin to die and break apart. In one final dramatic and painful struggle, the clusters burst in sequence until all the cells are broken apart and sink back into the blue void.

It is calm.

Released February 24th 2023
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