I was very upset to be unable to bring the Sequence to the end I envisioned, and may be overly dramatic in my last post...?
One has to go on anyway, and as my friend Corey said yesterday when I was moaning about that: all we can do is do the best we can. Computers and video are still a pretty fickle business when you push them to the limits, and as good as it is, technology is still lagging way behind the dreams its potential has generated. I guess I wanted too much, and am now accepting I have to scale back my dreams a little and settle for what can be done in the remaining five days.
I had started an alternate option as a backup, and am going to make is best I can.
It is centered about some of Hieronymus Bosch large triptychs, some of which I was lucky to see in the Museum in Hamburg many years ago.
They are truly in my view the most extraordinary pieces of art ever to come out of a painter's mind. One has to wonder where these visions came from, whether Bosh was schizophrenic, or if he simply he had the lucky gift of remembering his dreams. Because this is the stuff of dreams. Some of the images are also so prophetic: flying vessels, submarines, strange machines, giant plants, extraordinary anthropomorphic buildings, on and on...
When you start looking at the details closely, you marvel at the creativity, the wit, the irreverence, the bawdiness, the daring... In the guise of treating "official" religious subjects, Bosh thumbed his nose to the patrons and the church itself. One can't help wonder whether he was a flaunting agnostic and heretic in disguise, in a time when these deviant behaviors led to being burnt at the stake...
To ordinary people, his work can be read on a primary level as vividly depicting the horrors of hell and the delights of heaven. To a more educated and free thinking crowd, readers of Erasmus in particular, there is much satirizing to be found, much delightful tongue in cheek mockery and criticism of the clergy and catholic tradition and teachings.
And to me, there is much beauty too, even in his freak creatures. Keep in mind that most every freak in popular culture, whether two headed people,people with four legs and four arms, people with legs sticking out of their belly, cyclops, monsters with two faces, people with three eyes, eight breasts, tails, horns, huge heads, tiny heads, giants, midgets, people with no arms, no legs, hermaphrodites, mermaids, etc..., actually have alway been born that way, and still are today, genetic errors, aberrations of nature.
For most of these,and many more, Hell is right here on earth, right now.
One has to go on anyway, and as my friend Corey said yesterday when I was moaning about that: all we can do is do the best we can. Computers and video are still a pretty fickle business when you push them to the limits, and as good as it is, technology is still lagging way behind the dreams its potential has generated. I guess I wanted too much, and am now accepting I have to scale back my dreams a little and settle for what can be done in the remaining five days.
I had started an alternate option as a backup, and am going to make is best I can.
It is centered about some of Hieronymus Bosch large triptychs, some of which I was lucky to see in the Museum in Hamburg many years ago.
When you start looking at the details closely, you marvel at the creativity, the wit, the irreverence, the bawdiness, the daring... In the guise of treating "official" religious subjects, Bosh thumbed his nose to the patrons and the church itself. One can't help wonder whether he was a flaunting agnostic and heretic in disguise, in a time when these deviant behaviors led to being burnt at the stake...
To ordinary people, his work can be read on a primary level as vividly depicting the horrors of hell and the delights of heaven. To a more educated and free thinking crowd, readers of Erasmus in particular, there is much satirizing to be found, much delightful tongue in cheek mockery and criticism of the clergy and catholic tradition and teachings.
And to me, there is much beauty too, even in his freak creatures. Keep in mind that most every freak in popular culture, whether two headed people,people with four legs and four arms, people with legs sticking out of their belly, cyclops, monsters with two faces, people with three eyes, eight breasts, tails, horns, huge heads, tiny heads, giants, midgets, people with no arms, no legs, hermaphrodites, mermaids, etc..., actually have alway been born that way, and still are today, genetic errors, aberrations of nature.
For most of these,and many more, Hell is right here on earth, right now.
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