Using occult iconography in art

[Incognitus]

This is one of three art threads I'm going to make in the next couple of days. This deals with using sigils and other symbols in artwork. The second thread will be able using neural networking to do edge/style detection on one image and applying it to a second image with some pretty damn cool effects. The third will have to do with neural network generated sigils (specifically GAN - Generative Adversarial Network). Hiding symbols in art has been done for thousands of years.

I've been doing 3d and fractal art for decades now. I mostly use e-on software's Vue for 3d (I like doing landscapes), and for fractals my favorite is JWildfire, but I also use Mandelbulb3D and Fractorium. I'm going to concentrate on fractals for this thread.

For the past couple of years, I've been working on incorporating sigils and other symbols into my artwork. I originally started with the sigil of Baphomet and weird things kept happening. I was sick all of the time, and nothing for work or life seemed to go right. Related? Self-fulfilling? I'm not sure, but I do know something weird was going on. To change my mindset, I chose another sigil. I primarily use the sigil for Paimon right now. I mean, who wouldn't want to know some secrets, right?

For the record, this is the sigil graphic I am using

https://imgur.com/ZEg66c1

I'm hosting these in Imgur right now. You may have to click on them and then click again on the Imgur site to view it large enough.

So on to it!

 

[Incognitus]

This first one is done in JWildfire and is an example of being able to see the full sigil right away. It's blatant, which is sometimes fine, just fine. The sigil is being used as a colormap in this image.

https://imgur.com/8rMyoHi

 

[Incognitus]

This next one uses the same sigil image, but it's being used as a displacement map instead of a colormap. You can't tell that the sigil was used, but it's responsible for a lot of the end result. This was also done in JWildfire.

https://imgur.com/cMNrlyd

 

[Incognitus]

Switching apps, this was done in Mandelbulb3D using the sigil image as a height map. There's some depth of field rendering in there.

https://imgur.com/3RCb5lN

 

[Incognitus]

Also done in Mandelbulb3d, same sigil as a height map but instead of extruding, we're basically carving into the solid portion. It also has a lot of yellow, which is a color associated with Paimon. Each of these also has a personal bind rune, just to juice it up a little more.

https://imgur.com/xCHhM7p

 

[SkullTraill]

I don't encode messages of any kind in my commercial art pieces unless a client specifically asks me to. However, I sometimes do in personal/passion art projects.

Nowadays with software, programatic, computational and generative options for creating artworks, the posibilities are endless. As you have already described with the fractal and height-map type creations, so there are many, many more ways to incorporate sigils and other occult iconography in art.

From steganographic methods to literally implementing it in parts of your actual code.... the possibilities are endless.

 

[The God-King]

This next one uses the same sigil image, but it's being used as a displacement map instead of a colormap. You can't tell that the sigil was used, but it's responsible for a lot of the end result. This was also done in JWildfire.

https://imgur.com/cMNrlyd

To the trained eye, is there a way to tell that a sigil was used in this one? I can't find a hint of it anywhere.

 

[Brixgh]

Switching apps, this was done in Mandelbulb3D using the sigil image as a height map. There's some depth of field rendering in there.

https://imgur.com/3RCb5lN

Sigils sometimes remind me of electrical networks.

Your way is very creative; thanks for sharing

 

[Incognitus]

To the trained eye, is there a way to tell that a sigil was used in this one? I can't find a hint of it anywhere.

Not really. In this case, being used as a displacement map, it was further distorted beyond being able to see it by eye. For example, the oval in the middle is due to the circle in the sigil.

 

[Irish Bard]

Just exceptional artwork.