Terra
Incognita" is still a work in progress, the final
acts have not been completed yet, and the final outcome
is not bleak. The artist uses the metaphor of water which
runs alongside the journey as a leitmotif to lead up to
his "renaiscance" in the central event of his
own baptism, an event which much occupied him during the
conception of this project. There will be in the
tradition of dramatic irony an interview where the artist
outlines the themes of the journey and what it is all
about, as well as a final triumphant vision of the new
jerusalem. The shining city.
It is like the artists world where the vision and the music is the text for as the narrator/preacher intones at the beginning "..... the final piece is not social, it has no interaction, it is not a commentary on society but something far deeper, constructed out of real dreams and visions with a biblical commentary thus recreating in the viewer the state of mind when a dreamer is suddenly awakened, and the pieces of his dream flee from memory in no particular order before his eyes,nothing is accidental in the journey, this is how it is was and would be." Perhaps it is not such a "loada bollox" after all ..... for although the piece often seems to express the authors sense of futility, his isolation, and depression, it turns it into something far more significant and positive, a work of art, a syntagm, where the positive attributes of his autism are shown through the medium itself, the authors ability to produce the images, sound and narrative structure, his monofocused determination to make something of that on his own. The author expresses his gratitude to the National Autistic Society and Hereward College on whose premises and at whose events he filmed. He also wishes to thank all those who appear incidentally in the picture, but particularly Dave McCormack, the narrator/preacher |
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