red vibe

[prismaticbleed]

The RED realms seem to have this inherently apocalyptic vibe, post-massacre. It stuck hard. But this image gives hope. Although still red with bloody glow, existentially disturbing in its unnatural hue, the sky above is shot through with stars… and grids. Those grids somehow complement the “end of the world” aesthetic while adding an unexpected feeling of consolation, of hope. The grids are the bone structure of reality, the framework of the world. They are the beginning, and the stripped-down revelation of the end, when all else burns and collapses. In the end of it all it never really ends. And maybe that’s the secret heart of RED– the truth of blood itself, of life and death intertwined. There is something greater, and we are the closest to it in birth and the grave. When we feel we are about to die, we can reach out and touch it. Isn’t it strange, so terrifying and yet beautiful? I love it dearly.

It’s always been my heart-color. I don’t understand it. It is a frightening color. But I will love it, inevitably, until I die too.