Put on your thinking cap. What have we got here?

An Acme Transmission clutch gear system? What about the glyphs on the edges of the gears? Why repeat a level of color and a level of grey? With all those tabs, it could represent multiple diving platforms for a Busby Berkeley musical number. Could it be a cosmic black hole in reverse, where patterned matter is being expelled? And that cloudy pearlesence underneath the image - is that leaking transmission fluid?
The Pacific Trust Collection of Laguna Beach used an earlier digital painting for its 1966 American Natural Objects Competition Poster.