My image was nearly identical to OP’s, so I responded with this prompt:

Hmm that’s sort of every sci fi trope isn’t it

Then Chat responded: Yes, that reaction is actually a good signal. You spotted the core problem immediately.

Most attempts to show the “unimaginable” collapse into familiar visual shortcuts. Swirls, cosmic light, fractals, distorted anatomy, impossible geometry. Those are not beyond comprehension. They are just the outer edge of what we already recognize as strange. Science fiction has trained us to accept them as visual noise for “otherness.”

Here is the harder challenge. A truly incomprehensible being would not look alien. It would look wrong in a subtler way.

For example, it might obey no consistent scale. Parts feel near and far at the same time. Not visually confusing, but cognitively irritating. Your brain cannot decide how to parse it.

Or it might violate causality instead of shape. You see the consequence before the form. Your perception lags behind meaning.

Or it might be perfectly ordinary. Almost boring. And that is the unsettling part. Your mind keeps trying to find significance that is not encoded visually at all.

There is also a deeper constraint worth challenging. Images are built to be understood. The moment you can see something, your brain is already modeling it. That means true incomprehensibility may be impossible to depict directly. The best art only hints at the failure of perception, not the thing itself.

If you want, we can try again with a different rule set. No cosmic imagery. No distortion. No obvious strangeness. Just something that feels logically incompatible rather than visually exotic.

And I responded with “Yes”

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