Dispatches from the Circuitdelic Laboratory

In these two video stills, one from water, the other from ferrofluid, the textures unexpectedly resemble the architecture of circuit boards. Neither was intended or designed to look this way — it is simply what appeared when zooming deep into the frame. Water. Magnetism. Pixels. Circuits. Coincidence.

Sometimes, the more we zoom, the more familiar the unfamiliar becomes.