Between The Elements of Air and Earth

I had a wonderful image that came to me before I fell asleep on Friday that I credit to an exhibit I saw at art murmur earlier in the evening. The concept was of the Earth as a type of element in which humanity is a necessary level for a particular energy transference. The image was of the planet covered in strange looking tentacles that wiggled like a brain made of snakes.
 
It made me think of this softly, subtly mind blowing video by artist Tadashi Moriyama. I love the very Japanese, detailed and dangerously balanced aesthetic. But it also breaks boundaries of color and concept that I don't expect paired with that aesthetic. The paintings alone were just as awesome, each one the only and any universe at the same time:

I remembered this (and it got thrown back to Waiting for Godot) when I saw Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel on Monday. I finally conceptualized something that I hadn't before in Two Headed Boy Pt. 2.

What got me was that God isn't human or rational or loving or judgmental, but rather, god is a place... maybe our planet, or a temple, or a patch of grass. This becomes really crazy cool if you think that Earth is only a place to us, but on a larger scale, it is an object in space which we are a necessary part of. Its like we're the electron cloud of an atom and we see our place as whizzing around the nucleus, but any other perspective would not imagine the nucleus as a place at all.

I feel like I could write for days, paint a hundred paintings, and maybe even compose a symphony and I still wouldn't run out of things to say about this topic.