interest: Energy Spheres

Energy Spheres are circular, radial gradient portraits of people, places, or things.

In 2019, artist Elliott Cost published a contacts page on his website:

This then extended into corresponding avatars in his phone and computer's Contacts app. Since then, energy spheres have been continued by Laurel in various forms, including making a prototype of a sphere-making tool in collaboration with Soft:

Energy Spheres also exist as natural phenomena (like full rainbows) in the world:

Energy spheres have been explored by artists in various forms previously as well, as documented in this ongoing Are.na Channel ↗