Mi-Go Psychotronic Amplifier

Anachronistech Lovecraftech inspired by the Victorian occult technology employed by the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra as depicted in the B.P.R.D. novelette The Abyss of Time:

The brief glimpse of this machine (and the surrounding text) fascinated me, and got me thinking about the potential design aesthetic of the technology employed by the actual Mythos races--how it would ideally straddle those fine lines between both "anachronistic" and "sophisticated" as well as "scientific" and "metaphysikal."  And that it should also look exotic, and perverse, and sculptural, and should appear to defy the laws of Euclidean geometry, and......well, that's a pretty tall order, so I decided to start with the basics.

I did want the artifact to look disturbingly hybridized, as though it represents an uncomfortable intersection between biology and technology.  (To some extent I felt like I was recreating the conceptual process that must have led Giger to his "Biomechanoids.")  To this end I envisioned a device composed of both living tissue and fabricated (or at least congelead/precipitated/secreted) inorganic components, acting synergestically to channel psychic energies.

The shape of the object, the channels and ridges in the fixtures and bolts, even the patterns in the annealed metal and the bone sutures, all act as waveguides for esoteric energies.  So in a sense they can be seen as glyphs or sigils as much as circuits or antennae, thus illuminating the indistinct boundaries betwixt arbitrary ontological categories.  Attention to such considerations may be what gives "magickal" artifacts their unique stylized shapes, in this scenario.

It should be noted that the device appears to contain a rudimentary "brain," which is apparently in a state of progressive atrophy or which may be actively retreating into a higher mathematical domain upon clumsy human attempts at intrusive analysis (via CAT and MRI scans, etc.).

Sketch sketchy sketchy, will remove to Leng thomastapir.deviantart.com/gal… sooooooooon