Joey sighed a bright luminescent pheromone of satisfaction as he had just dug through a path thought inconceivable by his red fire ant fore-bearers. It had taken him more time than it takes to go from light edge to light edge of their world, but he had done it. It was his small life’s crowning glory and an attempt to communicate with those who couldn’t be smelt.
Joey always thought fractals should be the most universal language with a simple yet intriguing design, having been chosen as the few in his brood to obtain the knowledge from the third and current queen mother Chloe herself. Digging through a fractal, especially one elaborate to be seen from outer space was however always a fraught endeavor, many red ants of yore had either gone mad or been stuck unable to find their way out from their self created prison.
Joey had started on his digging journey in an attempt to prove that the stories of the first queen mother Ahloe who lived 3 churnings ago establishing contact with those who couldn’t be smelt weren’t false. Through contact it is rumored that their world had been enriched with showers of sugar which his ilk always had to struggle to forage in their soil.
Joey wanted to be the hero who brought those benevolent showers again. The current churning had been one of decay with broods becoming weaker and weaker as it took longer to forage the precious sugar.
Inspiration: http://amydyer.art/wp/index.php/2020/01/01/drawing-with-ants-generative-art-with-ant-colony-optimization-algorithms/
The Lucid Monk 