In David Cronenberg's film
Scanners, a seemingly schizophrenic homeless man turns out to have a variety of mental powers. He is eventually introduced to a whole community of people with similar powers. One of them is a sculptor who lives inside a giant sculpture of his own head. I feel like I've been living inside my own nervous system. I'm leaving this particular model of my mind, which manifests in the world as an isolated trailer in the wild lands west of the city of Tucson. I'm not sure if that counts as a "Get Out of Jail Free" Card for escaping the prison of myself, but it's at least a good excuse to change in some capacity.
This is a Yithian, also known as the Great Race, from "The Shadow Out of Time" by H.P. Lovecraft. The Great Race of Yith exists in earth's distant past. They are highly evolved, scholarly beings which maintain an epic library under what is now the Great Sandy Desert of Australia. They are eventually wiped out by a more aggressive alien invader, but are able to foresee this tragedy in time to transport their consciousnesses to the bodies of the great beetle-like creatures which dominate earth long after the extinction of
Home sapiens. It was an early sculpture I attempted in 2004 and unfortunately fell apart before I had the chance to bisque fire it.
In David Cronenberg's film Scanners, a seemingly schizophrenic homeless man turns out to have a variety of mental powers. He is eventually introduced to a whole community of people with similar powers. One of them is a sculptor who lives inside a giant sculpture of his own head. I feel like I've been living inside my own nervous system. I'm leaving this particular model of my mind, which manifests in the world as an isolated trailer in the wild lands west of the city of Tucson. I'm not sure if that counts as a "Get Out of Jail Free" Card for escaping the prison of myself, but it's at least a good excuse to change in some capacity.
This is a Yithian, also known as the Great Race, from "The Shadow Out of Time" by H.P. Lovecraft. The Great Race of Yith exists in earth's distant past. They are highly evolved, scholarly beings which maintain an epic library under what is now the Great Sandy Desert of Australia. They are eventually wiped out by a more aggressive alien invader, but are able to foresee this tragedy in time to transport their consciousnesses to the bodies of the great beetle-like creatures which dominate earth long after the extinction of Home sapiens. It was an early sculpture I attempted in 2004 and unfortunately fell apart before I had the chance to bisque fire it.
