Celestakai

I've been creating fictional universes since I was a child, but Celestakai is one of my favorites. It's a world I feel I first knew in my dreams. Describing it is difficult, but it's certainly more colorful than the world we live in. My color palette is inspired by Celestakai. When I take photos in real life, like of sunsets, green leaves, or water, I often transfer them to my phone and oversaturate them to match Celestakai's tones.

From the outside, it might seem like a simple creative practice or self-expression, and it certainly is that. But it's also so much more. It's an opportunity to keep my imagination active. Imagination is necessary, not only for working towards better possibilities in my personal life but on a larger scale too.

So, when I'm gathering colors and creating dreamy landscapes, I often think of Celestakai. It's not merely an "aesthetic" or "style" to me. I'm fine with these terms, but for me, it's about visually communicating a hope for what could be.

Beyond nature, we live in a world with many structures we didn't create. Worldbuilding is my way of imagining not just art for the walls but the walls themselves, if there are walls at all. Celestakai represents that for me.

“On the walls of the universe,
there are colors I’ve never seen
and doors leading to endless love”
- From a song I wrote at age 15, “On The Walls of Universe”

Here’s a voice memo I recorded in 2024, some 19 years later…just to remind myself how the melody goes so I don’t forget it. Perhaps someday, I will record it and finish it. But in the meantime, I’m just quite happy that I’ve been able. to remember the melody all these years later.