This is a very hard work to verbally describe but here goes: It's a Digital Hybrid work from a queue of previous works; some physical (analog) some digital (ethereal) and some fluid. I'm not even going there on fluid, but it's a method I use that stems from one of my processes—retting. This is essentially a duotone composition, tans and grays. A key figure, small and pushed back into the composition is standing with back to us, head turned to look a the viewer. 82 layers were recorded in the process of making this piece, in all three modes mentioned above.
The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn’t, you’ve got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor." ≈ Joseph Campbell
"Far from day, far from night,
Out of time, out of sight,
In between earth and sea,
We shall fly; follow me.
Dry the rain, warm the snow;
Where the winds never go
Follow me, follow me, follow me
To a cave by a sapphire shore
Where we'll walk through an emerald door,
And for thousands of breathless evermores my life you shall be.
Only you, only I,
World farewell, world goodbye.
To our home 'neath the sea
We shall fly; follow me.
Follow me, follow me, follow me."
≈ Nimue to Merlin, from Camelot. Lerner & Lowe, 1966
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