(continued from Latona Interpretations/Associations 05)
We start with Lis 00, which is and isn’t the start of the Lis series, much like the situation with Gila 00 and Latona 00 before it for their respective series.
Hucka D.:
Respective? Good evening to you baker b. Nice to be starting a third series so soon.
bb:
Great to be working with you again as well, Hucka D. We may try a double shot today[ of interpretations].
Hucka D.:
I know you don’t like Lis 00 as much as the remaining collages of the series…
bb:
I suppose that’s true.
Hucka D.:
… but it interests me. It *captured* your attention, those 6 Confederacy of Diamond participants sitting in a row in Castle Combe like that. It inspired you to create a new collage even though you thought you were done with them for the winter/spring of 2013. Not so. Lis is the most consistent of the 3, actually, and probably the most meaningful. Deep. But we start with Lis 00. The Diamond rock is front and center, a kind of 7th member of this confederacy and the head of it obviously, since it is the Confederacy of Diamonds. But what is this confederacy. Is it merely a play on Confederacy of Dunces?
bb:
Well, in looking at the collage I believe the people sitting there may represent the collages of the Lis series itself, which will quickly line up in a row after Lis 00 — one interpretation.
Hucka D.:
And a good one. They are waiting for you to manifest them, one by one. And The Diamond will make an appearance as well. This is the spirit of Lisa the Vegetarian showing her strength once more. Everything centered in Arkansas for the US of A boy. TILE. And the walking man to the right is experiencing the energy of TILE as well. The 7 of Diamonds over the entrance he has strutted through is the 7 diamonds of the Confederacy. He is the seventh as The Diamond is the 7th. Arkansas.
bb:
Let’s move to Lis 01, although we may return to Lis 00. Lis 01 is all about Devizes, Hucka D., which I’ll be staying at for my first week in England this coming summer.
Hucka D.:
3 months[ to go]!
bb:
Yes. Getting very excited, especially given what happened in the Lis series. The centerpiece of the collage is St. John’s Church in Devizes, which exists very near where I’ll be staying. Devizes central area is very compact overall; you can be out in the country in a matter of minutes walking north, for example.
Hucka D.:
Oh you’ll be walking north. North east south west. And you’ll go to the old tunnel entrance, if you can get down there.
bb:
We’ll get to that in a minute[ in reviewing collages 03 and 04 of the Lis seris]. So in Lis 01 you actually have a number of Brian Marshall Roberts… dang, you got *me* saying it now Hucka D.! — Brian *Robert* Marshall’s photos combined together. There are 3 focusing on the church itself… I’ll just list them out and give links…
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2387363
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2387298
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2386590
… then 2 of the what’s called the Millenium monument behind the church, which are combined to make a type of 4d image of the thing I suppose…
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2387342
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2387345
… and then one additional Devizes shot Marshall took of a pyramidal sculpture from the downtown area…
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/950005
A lot of photos used here, in other words.
Hucka D.:
It is the spirit of Devizes and St. John’s Church combined into one collage. 4d, as you stated, for both church and sculptures. You’ll do this again for Alton Priors in Lis 07. Same technique.
bb:
Yes. Thanks for that.
Hucka D.:
What are the bricks removed in the wall to the left telling you?
bb:
They reveal part of an oval, maybe a mirror.
Hucka D.:
A mirror. Something has been pushed off to the left. There’s only one figure in the collage, and that’s a woman admiring a grave stone to the right. But the stone has been moved from behind the wall to in front. What does the stone say, baker b.?
bb:
I think it is about The End.
Hucka D.:
Yes. This collage is so complex because we had to root you in Devizes firmly to begin Lis. You are *there*. You will be there. You are already there. There!
bb:
A tiny gift shop exists in the corner of the church next to the pyramid, perhaps frequented by toy avatars.
Hucka D.:
Reminders of Civil War battles to the left. Grape shots in the wall. Grape shots are also in crop circles.
bb:
But…
Hucka D.:
The end is covered up, first by putting a brick in the wall to obscure, and then by simply moving the whole picture to the right and pushing it off to the left. But you must remember the origins of the collage. Why did you have to cover up The End?
bb:
I didn’t want to see it.
Hucka D.:
Out of sight and out of mind. But The End serves a higher purpose, for it is the end of life itself. The grave stone to the right, still in the picture and added later, tells you this.
bb:
I really like this collage, Hucka D. It’s soothing to look at. Lots of cool stone.
Hucka D.:
3 bricks removed here… 2 to reveal what you call the edges of a mirror behind the church’s wall, and then a third to make a window for the tiny gift shop beside the pyramidal sculpture. A duplicate St. John’s exists in the background so that you can see its front better. The clock says 11:37. Revelation.
bb:
Let’s move to Lis 02, since it is of the same Devizes church but from the back now.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2387438
Again we’re combining different Devizes locations into one collage, and this time its St. John’s with a coffee shop in the downtown area called Costa [culled from a Google Streetview image]. We don’t have those over here.
Hucka D.:
That’s your Starbucks as I remember. I don’t drink coffee myself.
bb:
Interesting. Yeah, I assume I’ll be going to that coffee shop quite a bit… again not far at all from where I’ll be staying there. But it’s not *right* behind St. John’s, you see.
Hucka D.:
I see. These are places of worship combined in a place of worships. You worship coffee. Others worship other gods, including The God, the Big Man upstairs. Some even worship the other Big Man downstairs. But you mainly worship coffee, or that’s a primary worship. You should think of TILE more. But you have the woman carried over from Lis 01, and to the right again. She’s gained a partner, a male… they’re a couple. They walk side-by-side. They walk to, well they’re the same person actually, and then man then walks behind the church to the tunnel entrance where he’ll meet Meat Shake. Or meat Meet Shake. The gargoyles from St. John’s break off the church and follow him, but are thwarted in their attempt to spoil the meeting by Gary, who has come with The Diamond from Amereca all the way to Devizes just to protect his own partner.
bb:
We’re moving into the themes of Lis 03 and Lis 04, which are a diptych, so I suppose we better throw out a collage picture here…
The collage “Gargoyles Cometh” is on the left here, and is Lis 03. These are the 4 gargoyles you mention, which you stated have followed the man/woman to the tunnel entrance and are trying to spoil a meeting with Meat Shake… get to that in a moment. Let’s put up the 4 additional Brian Robert Marshall photos the gargoyles come from…
The last gargoyle (4 of 4 in Marshall’s ordering) is the only one that appears full scale in the collage, Hucka D. The images of both the 3 of 4 and 2 of 4 gargoyles are reduced to 50% — they are to the right and left. Then the one in the back is reduced to 25% of the original. That’s a drain pipe coming out of its mouth, but in the collage it makes the thing look more like a monster than it actually is.
Hucka D.:
Oh they’re monsters. Coming to get you!
bb:
Coming to get the man/woman who seeks Meat Shake, you mean.
Hucka D.:
Yes. But thanks to Gary, their efforts were twarted. Gary swings from a tree branch from the right and starts knocking them off one by one till all are dispelled. They slink, defeated, back to their church perches. Church perch. They are the 4 abberant energies of TILE. The 4th, the largest, attempts to sit on and obscure The Diamond of Frank Park you worked so hard to find this spring. He sits and laughs, waiting for the others to catch up. But then — Gary. Swings from the left. Picks them off. Gargoyles thwarted. Attack feigned off.
(continued in Lis Interpretations/Associations 02)
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