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Lovecraft story, descended into madness, sanity lost, and no hope left to cling to. The artwork presented above, I think, is an extension of that moment when it is unbearable, when the fear is so intense that you become a character in an H.P. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” -H.P. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. It starts out as terrifying, but it turns into comfort, in time, as you adjust to this crucial fact. Those signs that the reality that so many people rely upon is actually not as solid a construct as previously thought becomes a comforting thing.
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And then there comes a time when those mysteries become your faith. When you go through an initiation like that, there are always those things. There are things that I will never, ever have any sort of explanation for. This was all going on inside my head, but of course, it manifested in the real world as well. It took a few months before everything fell into place. The problem was that I had to wait for that reality to adjust and reconstruct itself to everyone else’s. I had divorced myself from reality completely and accepted a new reality of my own design. I cannot deny that something very spiritual was going on when this was happening. It was the only thing I could do at the time. In addition, there are dozens upon dozens of poems and sketches that I did during this time as well. There are about sixty of them in total, only a handful of which appear in Challenger Deep. When I was going through the worst of it, I left my house, likely barefoot, but I do not remember, and went to get the supplies to make these pieces. This artwork shows a culmination of what I was feeling when faced with the infinite of the cosmos concentrated in one finite space. Twelve pieces of Neal’s son Brendan’s haunting artwork are included throughout the novel-here’s a look at six of those pieces with insight, poems, and explanations from Brendan.Ĭhallenger Deep: Art by Brendan Shustermanīrendan Shusterman on his Challenger Deep artwork Drawing on his son’s experience with mental illness, Neal has created a captivating and powerful novel that lingers long beyond the last page. The hydrophone also picked up sound from ship propellers, as Challenger Deep is close to Guam, a regional hub for container shipping with China and the Philippines.Neal Shusterman’s latest novel, Challenger Deep, comes from a very personal place. The ambient sound field is dominated by the sound of earthquakes, both near and far, as well as distinct moans of baleen whales and the clamor of a category 4 typhoon passing overhead. Instead of being one of the quietest places on Earth, scientists found that at the deepest part of the ocean, there is almost constant noise. Coast Guard were surprised by how much they heard. Once they had a listen, researchers from NOAA, Oregon State University, and the U.S. However, scientists had to wait until November to retrieve the hydrophone due to ship schedules and persistent typhoons. The device remained anchored to the seafloor until scientists returned. The device recorded deep-ocean ambient sound levels in the 10–32,000 Hz range continuously over 23 days. Researchers deployed the hydrophone from the Guam-based U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Dylan Hall.
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Coast Guard Cutter Sequoia, homeported in Apra Harbor, Guam, prepares to throw a grappling hook to retrieve a NOAA hydrophone from Challenger Deep near the Federated States of Micronesia, November 3, 2015. Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Gonzales, a boatswain's mate aboard the U.S.