mist ascending

Ink-wash style illustration abstracted from a fjord photograph: three blue-grey stones stacked like trail markers, wisps of mist streaking across them and small seeds scattered at their base

An abstract rendition of the photograph below — the mountainsides became stones, the low clouds became the streaks of mist, and the cherries in the foreground became the scattered seeds.

It appears as the opening figure of All Circuits Lead to Rome: Rethinking Functional Anisotropy in Circuit and Sheaf Discovery for LLMs.

The photograph

A fjord on a rainy day: steep mountainsides laced with waterfalls disappear into low clouds, with cherry trees full of red cherries in the foreground

Norway. August 2, 2026.