Unity of the Unlike

A friend suggested recently that every artist has a folder on their computer full of random images that are aesthetically beautiful and inspirational to them.  True. 

When I was going through mine, I began to see surprisingly similar color palettes in very different kinds of images. 

I have been thinking and writing a lot about "unity of the unlike" lately.  

Here is a bit about how it can happen musically.

And here is a bit of it happening visually, first in color palette then in movement and subject matter:

Ndebele wall painting, South Africa

Gaugain's "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"

An Omega Nebula image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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From "Vogue" magazine

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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From a current blog

1920's photograph

Modern adaption of a 1940's hairstyle