i wonder if the "shiny new" element is the fractal structure of the wave - at least it is the major impressive element for me here. While depiction is abstract,

i wonder if the "shiny new" element is the fractal structure of the wave - at least it is the major impressive element for me here. While depiction is abstract, it is really captures and references the extremely important and powerful aspect of reality - the fractal structure of turbulence which we see as natural without paying much attention to it, yet it is one of the main things which separates real world from any simplified/abstract models of it. Also for example the one of greatest work by Aivazovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninth_Wave#/media/File:Hovhannes_Aivazovsky_-_The_Ninth_Wave_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninth_Wave#/media/File:Hov... Here the fractal structures at the tops of the waves are the major elements delivering the feeling of the raging water, the main point of the picture.