The Sum and its Parts

The language of Myth is interwoven throughout the fabric of our experience and is the spiritual glue that lets us solve our life-problems and have a lifePath. “Spiritual,” not in grandiose nor inaccessible way — this language can manifest in a childhood rhyme as much as an ancient tale. It is simply a means by which we understand our world and our path through it over a lifetime. It is something innate in every human’s artillery — conscious or not — of tools needed to get by day by day, wading through this Thing called Life. Each image extracts from long-existing tales, characters and creatures from cultural histories around the globe; I then layer over those ‘remnants’ of myth, a layer of this Other language I refer to which every living thing shares in some form. Both blood and dust are things that, in their role of giving life and also contributing to the transitioning of Life, binds all into a simplified whole — a celebratory and rather fascinated act. I am not trying to undermine each individual inhabiting our world — I am bringing to attention that we are all part of a larger being that is the cosmos. In this submission I have included the Great White Stag, and a unique Southeast Asian cicada, its pose referencing the well-known Phoenix bird. I am trying to bring attention across the border between that which is our daily invisible experience, and to the majesty that is our bio-historical unity within and beyond our planet.