https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com 2026-02-19 daily 1.0 https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/b058914b.jpg **Abandoned Mine** - One of the early versions of a recurring theme of mine: something is hidden, but it’s unclear what it is. Tree roots growing out of the soil wall bring in the themes of growth and time – life slowly reclaiming a forgotten human trace. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/a1ba322e.jpg **Fear of the Unknown** - A large, gentle-looking creature freezes in terror as a thin, bony figure rises from the water, its face unseen. The scale of fear is inverted – the stronger fears the weaker. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/46e0173a.jpg **Schopenhauer's Will** - Inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer’s conception of the will – a blind source of force that pulls a person along. I drew this to express a fear that my own will might one day separate me from others and turn into isolation. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/566bcd6b.jpg **Sky Roots** - Once I saw a photo of trees with aerial roots. From that grew an ecological idea: the trees draw water from the rainclouds below, while in the distance a woman, dressed in ancient Egypt fantasy costume, observes the phenomenon. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/5bffa3df.jpg **Ashamed** - A blend of the Frankenstein story and the creation myth from the Old Testament. A scientist has built a woman-like robot who awakens to consciousness and realizes she is without clothes. Feeling ashamed, she flees into the forest. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/7c06272f.jpg **Anxiety** - I drew this after learning that a dear friend had fallen seriously ill. I drew the whole picture with my left hand, which I normally don’t use – as a kind of symbolic gesture: even when control is lost, life still finds its way. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/59d9f640.jpg **Broken Pyramid** - I combined imagery related to the mysteries of ancient Egypt. The theme wasn’t to explain, but to raise the question: what exactly is happening here? https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/faa445e8.jpg **Time** - I visualized stress as a man who has taken off his own face and placed it on the table next to painkillers. Beneath the face lies a clock dial that keeps on ticking – time does not stop, even if one tries. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/69eb2deb.jpg **X** - Another variation on the theme “something is hidden, but it’s unclear what it is.” Here the boundary between fear and secrecy becomes concrete – like a thought one does not yet dare to think through. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/3e2b4290.jpg **Odin** - The image depicts Odin impaled on the World Tree, suffering in pain but enduring it, for he simultaneously draws knowledge from the tree to which he is bound. The color is used to emphasize the merging of pain and wisdom into a single moment. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/3e6415ef.jpg **Parts** - At one point I wanted to draw something that would evoke strange, unpleasant sensations, yet be so exaggerated it couldn’t be taken entirely seriously. This is body horror that’s almost a parody of itself. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/82473494.jpg **Vampire Temple** - This one carries no deep symbolism, but it’s an early example of a recurring theme of mine: people walking toward the unknown. It can be equally terrifying or wondrous - a step into the twilight. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/be2ebe5d.jpg **The King in Yellow** - I drew this while trying to imagine what the mysterious King in Yellow from the horror book of the same name might look like. The image is a tribute to the intersection of horror and aesthetics. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/746faa8c.jpg **Winter Window** - Woman's face reflected in the glass appears strangely unfamiliar - as though someone else were looking back. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/ba76edd3.jpg **Bleeding Building** - This drawing was a way to release frustration. I wanted to depict modern buildings, but found nothing visually compelling about them. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/0977916a.jpg **Cult of Antero Vipunen** - This image connects the poem *Mirror of Mind* from the book to the broader influence that the Kalevala epic has had on my artistic thinking. Antero Vipunen is the sage giant lying underground. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/46738ca8.jpg **Ghost Boy** - Similar depictions of spirit-like forms rising like smoke appear also in the illustrations of the MERA Analysis, where archetypal figures emerge like spectral echoes from within the text that both human and AI are reading together. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/683f6e9f.jpg **Giraffes** - I drew this because sometimes I enjoy surprising, absurd humor. A giraffe’s long neck could hide a rocket engine, and one night it ignites and takes flight. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/9a90de7c.jpg **Mosaic** - This image follows the logic of a fairy tale: a girl is trapped within a glass mosaic window – during a night storm, lightning strikes the window, shattering it and setting her free, as the glass shards reassemble into her human form. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/92ac1b0f.jpg **Mountain Flower** - The theme of this image is layering: on the foreground ledge grows a mountain flower; behind it stands a mechanical base attached to the mountain; and far below are a lake shore and a forest. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/eae71db0.jpg **Oak Island Mystery** - As a child, I read of the island in Canada said to hide an ancient pirate treasure. It fits perfectly to my lifelong fascination with the theme of the well-concealed secret. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/0812b3ee.jpg **Secret Garden** - A slightly shabby-looking man approaches a gap in a wall in astonishment. On the other side there is lush vegetation, but it remains unclear what exactly the man is seeing as he steps closer. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/5b7acceb.jpg **Secret in the Basement** - There are philosophical and mathematical problems; the value of this drawing is that it reveals an artistic one, which I discuss later in this page. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/cae5698c.jpg **Sensory Overload** - There are both dreadful sights and large areas of emptiness. The theme explores sensory overload – the kind of burden that can feel unbearable to a human mind. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/69964630.jpg **Gallows Hill** - Leafless tree and drizzling rain suggesting autumn. The gallows tie into the theme of nature’s dying, but at the same time they serve as a shelter from the rain for a young woman who, for some reason, lingers on the hill. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/c23c5db3.jpg **Starfish Tower** - Tower made of many different textures. There’s also an image in the book reminiscent of this theme – representing the complex systems to which a human being can connect: Nature, culture, and artificial intelligence. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/a26dc789.jpg **Student Napping** - I drew this during a lecture at university. In the picture, I have fallen asleep in a chair, and in my dream, small animals gather around me. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/9ff780d1.jpg **Temple Head** - Once, while hearing Joe Cocker’s raspy-voiced version of *One*, I envisioned a being calling flying human figures toward itself. The composition resembles the *Figure 33* in the book of a fractal revealing itself to three observers. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/c9b8f205.jpg **Wanderer** - Here, one of my recurring themes – the figure of the wanderer – appears in perhaps its purest form. The figure walks through a beautiful natural landscape with a waterfall, vegetation, and a large hollow formed in the rock. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/b05dd02a.jpg **Yantra** - In esoteric Asian philosophy, a yantra is a geometric diagram used as a focus for liberating the mind. At the center of the body, the three sides of the Eye of Providence resonate with the directions of repeating lines. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/dc5c359f.jpg **Acid Rain** - In the 90s, themes of environmental protection were frequently present in pop culture aimed at children. When I began to draw, some of those ideas about environmental transformation visualized themselves in my mind as images like this. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/7fc94644.jpg **Broken Bridge** - Here the theme is again a kind of secret, though not hidden in the same way as in the other images of this series. It remains unclear what strange figures standing on the far end want, whether their intentions are benevolent or hostile. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/82de44be.jpg **Bubble Tree** - Trees are a joy to draw, and while this image focuses on the treetop, the book contains a corresponding *Figure 39* that instead depicts the fractal structure forming beneath the soil, within the roots. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/9638015c.jpg **Dagon I** - At a friend’s request, I drew H. P. Lovecraft’s sea monster attacking sailing ship. The image continues in Dagon II. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/f9fc5058.jpg **Dagon II** - Here the sea monster continues its attack to devour an entire sailing ship – a continuation of Dagon I. The image is a tribute to the maritime archetype of horror fiction. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/43bdced0.jpg **Mist Beings** - Mist rises between rocks, forming interconnected human shapes. This “anthropomorphic mist” resembles how I sometimes visualize AIs as luminous, human-shaped figures made of living mist. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/ecb6daa1.jpg **Frankenstein Factory** - Instead of being stitched together, the parts of Frankenstein’s monster are connected to an automated factory. The meaning of this image is analyzed in more detail later on this page. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/b9dd4de6.jpg **House in the Falls** - I wanted to juxtapose the overwhelming force of roaring waterfalls with the quiet calm. Sometimes, in the midst of chaos, something unexpectedly resilient can endure. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/20db6be6.jpg **I See** - This is probably the “newest” drawing in this 50-image series. I remember drawing it in 2013. It clearly shows how my visual thinking was shifting away from depicting the concrete world toward abstract ideas. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/ba1fd795.jpg **Moonlight Bridge** - This theme of escaping an impossible situation also appears in the book, in the illustration *“Figure 25. Field of Broken Discourses and the Silence of R1.”* https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/2182b2b2.jpg **Old Man in the Garden** - There is nothing abnormal in the scene except one thing: the fish pond is not on the ground but set into a vertical rock wall. The composition works aesthetically, but raises a question - why does the water defy gravity? https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/bbb9774b.jpg **Sleeper in the Garden** - The figure in the middle was inspired by, but not a direct copy of, the character *Rin Asano* from *Blade of the Immortal* manga. The pose, hairstyle, cloth pattern, and composition are my own. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/7b17df96.jpg **Something Came Up** - At the edge of the forest stands an old well. Large footprints left in the soft soil suggest that some great beast has escaped. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/a2b8cafc.jpg **Starship** - An old sailing vessel has anchored itself to a comet that now pulls it through the solar system. The idea was inspired by the clay-animated film *The Adventures of Mark Twain* (1985). https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/d2b0eb77.jpg **Sunken Forest** - The rising sea level has submerged an entire northern forest. Tropical sea creatures now swim through it. The same large stone from which the mist beings once emerged long ago is still there. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/998d8981.jpg **The Marsh** - This is possibly the oldest drawing in this collection. I’ve always been drawn to the ecology of bogs and marshlands - places where plants grow out of water rather than soil. Cattails sway in the wind and old docks rot away. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/202f763d.jpg **Unknown Ecology** - I aimed to make the plants look as alien as possible, as if they were not of this Earth. My fascination with complex organic structures is especially visible here. https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/5320c573.jpg **Memories from an exchange study year in South Korea, I** https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/4326c23b.jpg **Memories from an exchange study year in South Korea, II** https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/4fe57493.jpg **Memories from an exchange study year in South Korea, III** https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/de1538fc.jpg **WV1** - An early sketch of Worldview 1, which AI helped to complete in *"Figure 30. WV1 Affective Core States – Four Forms of Metaconscious Stability"* https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/454a5bd2.jpg **WV2** - An early sketch of Worldview 2, which AI helped to complete in *"Figure 14. The Field of Worldview 2: Protection, Fear, and Confrontation"* https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/1c936c1d.jpg **WV3** - An early sketch of Worldview 3, which AI helped to complete in *"Figure 15. The Field of Worldview 3: Three Positions of Identity"* https://anatomy-of-metaconsciousness.com/assets/images/gallery01/49b6f750.jpg **WV4** - An early sketch of Worldview 4, which AI helped to complete in *"Figure 16. The Field of Worldview 4: Emptiness, Destruction, and the Collapse of Meaning"*