SDL2025-G01C02-I19 Newborn Stars

Newborn Stars, space poetry

Item Identity: SDL2025-G01C02-I19

Title: Newborn Stars

Artist: Sam Diellor Luani

Collection: SDL InnerSpace Origins

Section: Raster Retro

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Digital artwork depicting a cosmic scene with a bright, radiant light source near the center-right, emitting rays across a dark background. Surrounding the light are swirling green and orange nebulous formations, resembling interstellar clouds. The composition evokes newborn stars emerging through mist, inspired by a Swedish poem. The contrast between the luminous center and the dark backdrop enhances the celestial and ethereal atmosphere. Created using edited vectors and a single radial blur from a legacy fractal texture. Signed SDL.

Newborn Stars With Poetic Roots

This image from 1997 was the first “pilot work” in my first collection of space images, born from the same poetic seed as the rest: an old Swedish poem of mine about “newborn stars watching through the mist, like curious eyes.” These images were meant to serve as visual companions to a series of space poems; an art collection for a poetry collection. The reason I selected this image for SDL InnerSpace Origins, is that it, as an early draft, holds its own charm—enough to be offered freely, while the others, due to their more delicate structure, are more suitable to be minted as NFTs, in the common composition of SDL InnerSpace.

What sets this piece apart is its layered construction. The radiant center and swirling nebulae weren’t conjured by filters or plugins, but built from edited original vectors—an artistic choice that runs through the entire series. This first image is the only in that series where I have used a single filter: a radial blur applied to the nebula, which itself was derived and vectorized from one of my most mined fractal images. That fractal has been my creative bedrock since the 1990s, spawning countless organic textures and cellular grids across decades of digital art.

So this modest work is in fact a bit more than a cosmic scene—it’s a quiet homage to enduring materials and poetic visions. It’s also a glimpse into the evolving archive of SDL InnerSpace, where each image is a constellation of memory, technique, and meaning.