Genesis

Exploring paradoxes that feel unresolvable. Tension and release. The unseen and unrecognised drawing of blood from the soul.

Lament

Charlie's Adventure

Spoken word. A journey through metaphor. A phenomenological description of a neurodivergent mind grappling with nomadic tendencies and the alienating experience of life in society. 

In this series of artistic exploration I am exploring consciousness on the layer of conceptual metaphor. I have approached this conception using a framework that combines theories of consciousness by Douglas Hofstadter, Carl Jung and George Lakoff.

I am using aquatic and spiritual metaphors as labels on a map that I am drawing of what my mind feels like, in response to different situations and scenarios in the material external world.

In essence I am trying to map and understand patterns of consciousness so that I am be more able to understand, predict and control them.

In general once I have created a map for a pattern of consciousness, that pattern becomes mostly controllable. controllable in the sense of a sailing boat can harness the wind, to stay afloat and get to a destination, not stop the wind.

The depths of the psyche

Red Rising

Red Rising Redux

Psystep

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.  --- H. P. Lovecraft

Cthulhu Passes By

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. --- H. P. Lovecraft

Cthulhu Is Immanent

Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. -Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections

Pete Phillips