Reverse Archaeology And The Metaphoric Flexibility of the Gods
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Reverse Archaeology And The Metaphoric Flexibility of the Gods
Mythological language composes in images what conceptual language states in sentences.
In truth, I practice my own form of shamanism every day. As an artist, I seek to access unseen powers. Evil forces are out there — Resistance, self-doubt, self-sabotage. How many other malign entities are hovering each morning over me and my huevos rancheros? Then there are the good forces. Inspiration, enthusiasm, courage. New ideas, brilliant bre
... See moreThey personify energies that we feel but may never have thought to name or invoke, both in ourselves and in the world.
metaphor exists in an ecology.
Given the inherent emergence of futures — both imaginary and realised — imagination infrastructures need to be understood as verbs, not nouns, actions, not things — processes of creation in a constant process of becoming.