Exit Vectors: Unlikely Beasts

Prompt: Probability curves warped by terror, statistical distributions taking threatening whale-like forms, chance itself becoming an instrument of fear. Creative Process: There was something deeply unsettling about the way massive bodies defy physics. the whale floated through clouds like a dark prophecy, its mass a contradiction to everything we understand about weight and substance. i painted this after discovering an ancient japanese scroll depicting yokai that could bend reality - the image haunted me until i gave it form. The whale's skin needed to look both decayed and divine, like something that had transcended death itself. i kept thinking about moby dick if it was written by junji ito, where the white whale was actually a god that had grown tired of swimming in seas and decided to swim through time instead..