The Beaded Tapestry

Dear Analis,

The first set of extrapolated data is now on it’s way by strip beam to your laboratory on the Phycodurus. It will be so difficult waiting for ten months until you arrive and are able to tell me what you find in the numbers. I am having trouble staying grounded and I need your analytical mind to keep me in check.  If I analyze the results with my scientific mind I see much promise in my progress so far. It appears our research is taking a step toward the type of results we hoped to obtain during our original groundwork. The issue is that when I view the results from an artistic perspective I lose all sense of reality and my mind jumps to visions of  the amazing things we will be able to achieve here and I forget all about what we ultimately need to achieve.  The variety of colors and shades that have emerged from my experiments with the surrounding material are without comparison to anything on Earth. The entire back wall of my studio is covered in the studies I have completed over the last weeks and I find myself waking from the depths of sleep with new visions aching to be depicted on canvas.  My living quarters are now available for my immediate occupation but I find myself reluctant to leave my work space and I have moved a small sleeping mat into the work area so I can sleep surrounded by my depictions of the Equine.  I had the data  to send to you for over two weeks before I finally pulled myself away from my painting long enough to set up the messaging equipment yesterday.  I am slightly upset at myself for becoming so obsessed but if you can imagine a new world that offers colors in which you have never experience in your lifetime it is understandable that is is beyond my weak mind to resist.  I will not be able to scan any of this new work into my digitized system as the program does not have the reference to interpret these new additions to the visible spectrum. I see now the issue with photographic representation of the Equine that now exist on Earth. It is impossible to capture it accurately with the currently available equipment.  I am hoping I can alter my scanner program to meet this challenge in the future but for now you will have to be satisfied with only the data from my research and your own view of the Anomaly.  I must admit that I have done nothing else over the last week but paint so I will  need to shift my priorities in the coming day to return to my material trials.  

Each day my vision adjusts to this new world and the Equine reveals more and more of itself as it drifts in the sky above.  As my brain learns to interpret this new environment, new colors and hues are added to the limited spectral catalog I experienced on Earth and the internal structure of the creature becomes more apparent as my enhanced eyesight  progresses.  The surrounding countryside has also transformed and I now see the local terrain emerging into an unrecognizable fairy world.  The browns and greens of the desert basin and the green and blues of the nearby river was the limit of my pallet when I first arrived.  Now that has all changed into a fascinating world of azure waves and brilliant indigo shades that I never in my deepest imagination knew to exist.  My hands are stained an unexplainable color from my constant mixing and my surrounding work space is a chaotic dream of splashes and overflows from various mishaps.  I am now occupied with my fourth full rendition of the Equine and the distillation equipment I built  is constantly in use. I have constructed two more units but neither work as well as the original model.  I suspect it has something to do with the container used for the collection of the finished product.  I have only found one of the original type gourds that is large enough for the purpose and I am constantly on the lookout for another.  I had to use glass flasks from my lab equipment as substitutes for the last two constructs and these produce a much different end product that does not mix well with the acrylic base. I will attempt to produce a container from  the local clay next and hope this results in a more adequate vessel  than the items from Earth.  The gourd is perfect but even though I have been on the lookout during my weekly stroll to the river bank I have been unable to find another of an adequate size.

Since the completion of the living quarters there is now only a skeleton crew left on site to complete the finishing touches to the building and surrounding support structures.  Addison says everything will be completed and operational before the onset of the cold season and he assures me that with any more than the three workers currently here, we will only get in each other’s way.  That gives us  just over three months left for the completion of the build, then the site will be fully operational.  Addison has given me a local contact in case I have issues with the environmental equipment and another person for the sustainable energy. Since I have been involved in the bulk of the build activities I am fairly comfortable with all the various equipment and hopefully I will be able to solve most problem that arise.  There is a supply and transport service schedule to visit the site every months and I can always send a message if more assistance is needed.

I received a message earlier this week from Nicolas.  It was so comforting to hear from him and find out how his project is progressing.  From his letter I could feel that his enthusiasm for his work has escalated and that his expectations have also been surpassed.  He states that the work and results are far beyond his original ideas and that new possibilities come to him everyday. He described a few of the dishes he has created for his clients and a little bit about the effects his food produces.  He was slightly vague on that last point but I suppose he also has his  trade secrets to protect.  After I finish my letter to you I will write a return message to him as I have not contacted him since my arrival at the site.  I also want to ask him if he is also experiencing the visual adjustments to the new planet as I am. I have asked Addison about the same thing but I only get a strange shake of his head and nothing further.  I hope to arrange a visit at the end of the build to visit Nicolas at his location.  I would like to see first hand what he has produced and if it could possibly be beneficial to my work. He may be reluctant to share on this level but from the different materials he mentions in his letter I feel certain we can both profit  from this shared knowledge.  I only hope Nicolas feels the same.

I have made arrangements to travel to Medici at the end of this week. It will do my brain good to be separated from the studio for the day and I need some additional supplies that I prefer to choose for myself. I hope it will allow me to reset my priorities as I have neglected the research portion of my work over the last few weeks.  I will also attempt to locate Katryna and convince her to visit me at the studio.  Although I still feel her presence it has taken a backseat to the overpowering experience of my art.  I still feel a need to reconnect with her but I will have to be delicate in how I bring my needs across.  I do not want to dissuade her by giving her the idea that she is a research subject, but the scientist in me feels that is exactly what I want her to be.  Hopefully we can come to a mutual understanding and work together.  For all I know she may also want to study me.  As I said in my last letter, I feel she has unfinished business with me.

It is at times like these that I really need your analytical mind for guidance. You can see from my letter that there is no focus in my life at this moment.  As you have not come to me in a dream since my arrival at the studio site I beg you to repair that omission.

Love you always,

Victoria