I started drawing rocks in response to a group exhibition asking what God is; soon commenced a heavy research jag into theosophy, magick, afrofuturism, animism, shingon buddhism, deism, pandeism, pantheism et al.
Lot of isms out there.
Think I like pantheism best.
At different moments over the past couple of years these island atolls have come to represent us, our little place in the big scheme, that innate lifeness that keeps the moss clinging on.
At others they’ve represented brexit, the curve, nativism, performative isolation, the deadening nuancelessness of the internet, our own lonely atomisation.
The precarious present. Whatever we are, teetering on the brink of the sublime for 200 million years.
(3 or 4 billion years if we include viruses: if we’ve learned anything these past years, we definitely should).
Deep time. Right now. Where it’s at.
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