This self-portrait embodies the paradox of being both seer and seen. The central figure is not a fixed self but a phase within a continuum, flanked by spectral echoes that drift forward and backward—temporal shadows of identity in motion. These layered selves gesture toward a perception that is not spoken aloud but lived internally: the awareness of existence as recursive, fractal, and aeonic.
The dual title reflects this doubleness. Aeonic Fractalis Synesthete names the one who perceives eternity through fractal awareness; Sensus Fractalis Aevum names the faculty of that perception, the capacity to recognize repeating patterns across scales of being within the span of everlasting time.
The work gives form to an unspoken experience of time folding in on itself—moments extending outward and contracting inward at once, the self mirrored ahead and behind like phases of the same wave. It is less a vision than a recognition: the sensation of standing inside a pattern where beginnings and endings dissolve, where existence is perceived as simultaneous, self-similar, and infinite. In this sense, the portrait does not depict a single state but gestures toward a universal condition—an observation of how the fabric of reality bends and recombines across dimensions, where the personal act of perception becomes inseparable from the larger structures it reflects.
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