The Afterworld as a Monad with an Infinite Center

I'm about two-thirds done with an Escher-inspired painting that I'm calling "Topology of the Afterlife." I probably won't get around to finishing it until mid-August.

I mentioned my motivations for this painting in a post the other day. In a nutshell, the painting has to do with my ideas about the afterworld, Flimsy, that appears in my novel-in-progress, Jim and the Flims. I see Flimsy as being tiny, down at the lowest level of space scale. I think of it as being what Leibniz calls a monad