instinctual stacking trails…

One way to look at the nature of each instinctual stacking is as a reaction, response, or compensation in relation to the next stacking in the flow.

In other words….

Contraflow:

SX/SO –> SO/SP. A reason for the swan/orchid-like elegance, as well as the distance or partial hiddenness, of SX/SO (which shows up, for example, in collages and other aesthetic output from SX/SO people) is that this stacking is ‘backed up’ or absorbing the influence of SO/SP’s Apollonian height and rarefied composition/perfection-of-form drive.

SO/SP has an urge toward immaculate order or dignified civilizational loft, excellence, and pedigreed firmness as a response to SP/SX’s teeming hellish undermining and subversive ‘festering breakdown/disease’ / ‘death & decay’ theme threatening to infect it. SO/SP –> SP/SX

SP/SX has a certain strange draw or cryptic pull to it because, in it, the attracting/burning glow of SX/SO sits behind a heavy/earthen (SP) veil or embankment which sometimes has you/the observer wanting to “see what’s in there / behind there.” Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. SP/SX –> SX/SO

Synflow:

SP/SO is partly straightforward, plain, direct/cynical, with relatively few trills and embellishments, as a compensatory response to the scattered dazzling colors, fantastical style and drunken flair of SO/SX touching into it, threatening SP/SO’s straight lines and healthy/sober sustainability. SP/SO –> SO/SX

SO/SX often has a dispersed scattershot energy or polka-dotted self-multiplicity due to the transformative metamorphic destruction/disaster or ‘touch of death & rebirth’ of SX/SP in close proximity, breaking down forms underneath and ‘making many babies.’ SO/SX –> SX/SP

SX/SP often comes out ‘wet’ with transmogrifying or metamorphic ‘melting’ stylizations as a compensation for the nearby influence of SP/SO’s dry/solid foundations and straightforward forms and appearances. SX attraction, here, requiring an extra dose of a sinuous or undulating quality, to such a degree as to flirt stylistically with themes of self-destruction or self-reformation. SX/SP –> SP/SO

These are only a first set of iterations around this idea. Plenty more that can come of this approach….

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