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November 24, 2015 · 2:25 pm

Boos Interpretation 03

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In the excerpts above we have two aspects of the “seed” from Boos collage 01 (“Bossmo”) and then Boos collage 02 (“Bixby Shuffle”), the same size in the pictures if we see the car in full length from 01. The twinned objects are also perpendicular to each other. We even do not know which one Oliver Wendell Douglas holds between his fingers in collage 04 (“Dirty Little Wet Seed”). It’s too small there for either a car or a license plate from same.

A license plate of a car acts as a unique identifier, another one-to-one match.

Perhaps GNIRPS can help us again here, since, after all, this is the mechanism that drove me to find this seed (Bixby-Buick-Boss triangle, etc.). There’s one Seed pop. place in the US:

Almost directly north of this place in Georgia (location seemingly reinforced by nearby Seed Lake), less than 20 miles away as the crow flies, is a community most commonly called Tate City but with a variant appellation of Tree, another rare US place name.

http://annawrites.com/blog/2012/02/15/i-hear-the-craziest-things-see-tate-city-waterfalls/

Tate City (aka Tree), a tiny seed of a village but with a large, developed sense of humor.

http://www.be-roberts.com/se/tallu/tallu.htm

The pilot of a successful tv sitcom can be viewed as its seed, from which all else develops.

In the county between Seed and Tree in Georgia — Rabun — we also find place names Tiger and Persimmon. Wood from the persimmon *tree* was heavily used to make the golf clubs called woods before the popularity of metal ones. Nearby Tiger might then indicate Tiger Woods in this scenario, a very famous golfer whose surname refers to the club type, and thus back to the persimmon tree.

And then there’s also this close conjunction of names in another Georgia county called Johnson, already mentioned in the Sunklands blog.

We’ll get to more of Mr. Kite and his golfing ways down the road.

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November 24, 2015 · 12:45 pm

Boos Interpretation 02

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“Bixby Shuffle 02” is the second part of the animation. We now have clear evidence of a transformation through the door. Bixby is turning into the monster again. In the window, we peek into the future.

We know from former map analysis that the towns of Bixby, Buick and Boss Missouri are psychically linked in some way. For one, they form an isosceles triangle, with Boss at the apex. Bixby and Buick lie on the western side of Iron County, in the Dent Township. Boss lies a little over the border in Dent *County* to the west.

I was studying Iron County at the time of this discovery because of its close ties to the Bigfoot Art Event that just took place next to the Blue Mountain Urban Landscape. This art event permeates the Boos collage series through and through. The two main toy characters of the event, Taum Sauk and Mina Sauk, both take their names from prominent landscape locations within this county, or the highest mountain in Missouri and the highest waterfall in Missouri respectively (which tumbles off the side of Taum Sauk mountain). The root cause of this association comes through the presence of a full golf *iron* already located at the epicenter of the Bigfoot Art Event, before it even began. Then a second iron — but only a head this time — was found at the Plateau of Raw Art which acted as the main source of the event’s junk aspect. Like with the spool table, another object which plays a major role in Boos collages. I would soon locate another spool table in Tungaske which would directly link my Bigfoot with that artsy Canadian hamlet. And Tungaske itself is featured in almost all Boos collages starting with the 10th.

Back to the “Bixby Shuffle” animation: What is really going on here? Why have I been directed, it seems, to bore into this Missouri location; collage the elements I have into it? I’m almost positive it refers to my present work situation, which has changed in the past several months. I’ve relocated, in effect. *My* boss has been exposed to be… well, the proximity of Boss and Bixby (and Buick) in Missouri is not chance, let’s say. I’m aware of a similar shuffle in my own life. And this goes hand in hand with a mother situation. Pretty deep stuff for me.

The Great Mother vs. the Terrible Mother: the dual nature of the Jungian archetype.

But, for every positive, creative force, there must be an opposing, destructive one. This notion is doubly true in the esoteric world of Carl Jung, where all archetypes must, by necessity, possess a shadow self. The dark twin sister of the Great Mother is the Terrible Mother, a force of death and destruction. This archetype inhabits the world of the primordial instincts, and is frequently represented as sub-human or even animal-like in form. A good example of the Terrible Mother archetype is the black-skinned Hindu goddess Kali. Her eyes are described as red with absolute rage, her hair disheveled, and small fangs sometimes protrude out of her mouth. She is often shown naked or just wearing a skirt made of human arms and a garland of human heads.

For me, this seems to be a residue form. Escape from childhood joys and fears is difficult. I was surprised, nay *shocked*, that such fears still could possess me. I’ll leave it at that. But I’m sure that’s behind some of the art here. The hulk monster is intertwined with the Terrible Mother and the rage.

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Moving on to collage 03, another animation, we have the reappearance of the rock house from collage 02 in its center. I call the work simply “The Rock”. In part 02 of the animation, we see that the Bixby shuffle is still in effect inside the house — the painfully green hulk has now *shuffled* over to the door, with Normal Bixby (human) nowhere to be seen.

And in the animation between the two, it is obvious that Mossman has become associated with The Incredible Hulk as well. He seems to be raging, like the hulk. But he is, according to my mythology at least (and, in part, the Heman mythology he comes from), a peaceful, civilized, highly intelligent being of pretty calm disposition. Within him, the turbulence is soothed; waves smoothed out. The storm is over. We will not see inside the possessed rock house again in the collage series.

The background for “The Rock” comes from Second Life, namely a Nautilus City shot highlighting my newly minted virtual gallery that now holds the entire Boos collage series. The rock house becomes superimposed on a rock in the Punic Woods just below the gallery (literally below, in the picture), which has been deemed mystical in much the same way as the Rubi Woods before it. The original background picture is here for a comparison:

Nautilus City will be seen in several other collages of the series coming up.

“The Rock” is easily the most reworked collage in the Boos series, forming in three phases at different times. As I touched upon in a recent post, it almost seems to steal some thunder from the end of the series. I think now some kind of jolt was needed to refocus the series on non-Missouri locations, or to bring Missouri into Canada, as it were. The guitarists to the left come directly from Tungaske, and they will “reappear” in the very last collage of the series. Canada (and Second Life) has come to the rescue. And Bigfoot.

And then also in the second part of “The Rock” we have Mossman being superimposed with the “3 Birds” sculpture seen in a number of my other collages down through the years now, starting in 2004’s Greenup series. Here I believe it represents the looped marble race of the Bigfoot event, a central aspect. Taum Sauk stands next to both Mossman and the sculpture, reinforcing a Bigfoot connection. His head swivels from left to right in the animation. His attention seems diverted to the next collage down the wall of the gallery…

… called “Dirty Little Wet Seed”. In this collage Taum Sauk seems to be examining the repercusions of Boss Moss and what his indicating finger is pointing to. We already know that this small gray square is a car from “Bossmo”, but duplicated as a *license plate* on the same car in “Bixby Shuffle”. This is the seed referred to in the title. Green Acres’ Oliver Wendell Douglas seems to hold it between his fingers. Douglas is actually talking about a hypothetical seed in the culled screenshot from the show — more tv shows.

If we google the phrase “dirty little wet seed”, we find the the show in question: “Oliver Buys a Farm”, which is also the pilot for the popular 60’s series. Directly related quote, then:

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0592737/quotes

Oliver Wendell Douglas: I’d take a little seed, a tiny little seed, I’d, I’d plant it in the ground, I’d put some dirt on it, I’d water it, and pretty soon, do you know what I’d have?
Lisa Douglas: A dirty little wet seed.

Full script of the show is here:

http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=green-acres-1965&episode=s01e01

I won’t go into this much but that particular episode is used as a core video source for a 2012 carrcass, or Carrcass-6. 12 Oz Mouse acts as the main glue for this particular audiovisual synchronicity, which I’ll add because its characters also appear in the Boos series. Green Acres folk will not put in another appearance, however.

(to be continued)

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November 22, 2015 · 4:40 pm

Boos Overview 04 > Boos Interpretation 01

Another reasons to rename the town to Tungaska or Tungaske:

http://www.tugaske.com/history.shtml

Meanwhile, when the Moose Jaw to Outlook (Macklin) railroad grade went through in 1908 and the tracks were laid, the north-east quarter of section 13, range 3, township 22, west of the third meridian, was set apart by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a townsite, and the CPR assigned the name “Tugaske” to this location. There were already businesses in operation here in anticipation of the coming of the railroad. Indignant citizens met to protest the name, which had a Russian sound, but the CPR pointed out that they had already printed maps, timetables and tickets using the name “Tugaske”, and it would be very inconvenient to change it. It was explained that the word “Tugaske” was a Cree Indian name meaning flat land. (Some claimed it meant good land or good water). The Tugaske Board of Trade immediately seized on this explanation and posted a sign near the railroad, just outside the town, where it could be read by passengers on the train as it went by, reading – “Tugaske means good land, good water and good people.”

Another possible name for the town: Goodwater.

Then this has also come up: Nederland, Colorado was formerly named Tungsten Town (T-Town again) and is located in *Boulder* County.

Hmm.

To complete another circuit of logic, Neal Stephenson’s metaverse described in “Snow Crash” is sometimes called a primary inspiration for the virtual world Second Life (setting of the “12 Pound Mouse Mound” collage), but which has been denied by founder Philip Rosedale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life#History

In 1999, Philip Rosedale formed Linden Lab with the intention of developing computer hardware to allow people to become immersed in a virtual world. In its earliest form, the company struggled to produce a commercial version of the hardware, known as “The Rig”, which in prototype form was seen as a clunky steel contraption with computer monitors worn on shoulders.[13] That vision changed into the software application Linden World, in which people participated in task-based games and socializing in a three-dimensional online environment.[14] That effort eventually transformed into the better known, user-centered Second Life.[15] Although he was familiar with the metaverse of Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash, Rosedale has said that his vision of virtual worlds predates that book, and that he conducted early virtual world experiments during his college years at the University of California, San Diego, where he studied physics.[16]

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So let’s just leap into it, shall we?

First up is Boos 01 or “Bossmo”, the introductory collage of the series. We have the return of boxed and unboxed Boss Moss of Freakies cereal fame, first seen I believe in the 2013 Falmouth series. The Google Earth background image comes from Boss, Missouri, which can be shortened to Boss MO (MO being the proper abbreviation for the state). These are the same first 6 letters, then, of Boss Moss, a natural association.

The Boss Moss title on the lower part of each creates a rightwards linear extension of the yellow pin labeled “Boss MO” from the Google Earth image, the initial impetus for the collage. The box can even be seen to block or hide the ending “ss” of “Boss MO”, if there were such letters.

To further cue this up, I decided that both boxed and unboxed Boss Moss should be pointing to a particular thing with their indicating fingers. Boxed Boss Moss points to a camper parked behind a rock house we’ll see better in the next several collages. More prominently, unboxed Boss Moss points to a small square; it almost appears to be balanced on the end of his finger. In Streetview this turns out to be a parked car, perhaps a junked or broken down one. A little later on in the series, this becomes understood as a kind of “seed”. It is also symbolically a Buick, if not one in reality. I couldn’t tell by the limited vision I had of it in Streetview.

I should also state here that the, to me, unusually green pond directly above unboxed Boss Moss also acted as a hint to the cueing.

In Boos 02, “Bixby Shuffle 01”, we have a direct continuation of “Bossmo”. We’ve simply gone “into” the map depicted in the first collage by activating the Streetview option for this location. We can now understand that the square Boss Moss is pointing to in collage 1 is the front end of a car, partially hidden by a tree in the aerial view. It was logical to have unboxed Boss Moss just point to it again in the second collage. Similarly, boxed Boss Moss is again pointing to the camper, although his box obscures most of it. Notice also that the white rectangle forming one side of the box is precisely aligned with the same white-ish driveway in both collages.

The only really new pictorial element of “Bixby Shuffle 01”, understanding all this, comes in figures appearing in the windows of the rock house centering the collage. In collage 01, the overhead image of this house is basically blocked by the torso of unboxed Boss Moss. In the now exposed openings of the house appear two images culled from the 1978-1982 tv series “The Incredible Hulk”, starring Bill Bixby. To the left, through the opened or removed front door, we have Bixby appearing as David “Bruce” Banner, a well respected physician and scientist who works at a research company. Perhaps also playing a role here is the fact that the character’s wife died in an *automobile* accident, a tragedy that directly leads, in a chain of associations, to Banner turning into the green hulk monster (The Incredible Hulk of the title) when his negative emotions are stirred. The monster appears in the window to the right of the door. The “Bixby Shuffle” of the title, framed through these two openings, refers to Banner’s constant back and forth transformations from normal human to hulking monster in the tv show.

new image introduced in “Bixby Shuffle”

(to be continued)

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November 22, 2015 · 3:54 pm

Boos Overview 03

I’ve about decided to name the T-Town dominating the Boos collage settings Tungaska instead of Thornberry. It is phonetically closer to the actual name of the town. The Tungaska event is generally described as the effects of a meteor colliding with Earth, and considered the largest impact event in recorded history. Meteors are depicted in several collages of the series, for example, in “Boos Attach” (collage 14). The state of Tungaska in that photo makes it appear almost to be in ruins.

Or maybe it is Tungaske.

Anyway, when I looked up the Tungasaka event in wikipedia and went to the attached “Tungaska event in speculative fiction” link, I found this close conjunction of authors named Stephenson, seemingly unconnected to each other except for using the event as a plot device in one of their recent books. Neal Stephenson (misnamed in the article) is a famous sci fi/speculative author perhaps best known for the pioneering work “Snow Crash” from 1992. Charles Stephenson is an unknown writer in comparison. Both put forth different theories in their books about the cause of the event. Neither involve meteors.

In Seveneves: A Novel by Neil Stephenson (2015), after the Earth’s moon explodes in the first pages of the novel, it is suggested that a small speeding blackhole, such as was hypothesized (and disproven) to have caused the Tunguska event, caused the moon’s explosion.

Charles Stephenson’s 2013 novel The Face of OO culminates with the explosion over Siberia. In this story a hijacked airship, which is carrying a ‘divine weapon’ mentioned in the Indian great epic, the Mahabharata, explodes causing the massive blast.[1]

In the “Boos Attach” collage, 12 Oz Mouse’s head is pinned down by a meteor. But he’s okay. The meteor has landed, however. Umaps gives us additional clues, seemingly, about the impact (or “impach”), relating it perhaps to the “inch” measurement, for some reason. Inch, ounce, pound?

Another place we see the same cartoon meteor from 12 Oz mouse is the 6th collage of the series called “12 Pound Mouse Mound”…

12 Pound Mound is a terraforming anomaly in Nautilus City recently re-discovered (and newly named) by Baker Bloch. In the collage, the anomaly transforms into the new body or torso of 12 Oz Mouse himself, his head awaiting the impact of the meteor, per the accompanying video seen in this earlier post.

12 Lb Mound

So “Boos Attach” is a completion of the event first seen in the earlier collage “12 Pound Mouse Mound”: before and after pictures. The meteor has landed.

And with it, perhaps the (fictional name) ~~Thornberry~~ ~~Tungaska~~ Tungaske, Sask. is born.

The meteor gives birth to something new instead of destroying.

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November 22, 2015 · 7:46 am

Boos Overview 01

Difficult to get back in the writing mode after doing so much art recently. The Boos collage series *may* be over. Not saying it is but I’m not saying it isn’t (but it is?). The Nautlius City gallery is filled to the brim with new collages. But *now* I get to interpret them (!). When to start? I can hear Hucka D. say, “now!”.

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So let’s look back. And I’ll employ Hucka D. to aid my interpretation as usual, an important role of his on this and past blogs. I have a couple of collages to fine tune but nothing major like with collage 03 LINK. I can do that as I go along.

Hucka D.:

It begins with a dirty little wet seed. A car, perhaps a buick but perhaps not. Lying in a driveway under a tree, unused probably. Broken. A dirty little broken wet seed.

bb:

Thanks for beginning Hucka D. And his is what unboxed Boss Moss is pointing to in the very first collage of the Boos series. Let’s back up briefly and explain the name.

Hucka D.:

It will take you several minutes to get ungroggy so I’ll continue. Boos is the name of a Jasper County village. Like Rose Hill before it. Like Hidalgo, like Yale and Wheeler, like Gila, Latona, Lis. Newton, of course. And then Jasper itself. And let’s not forget Falmouth, the most importantest of all so far. Then you also have proper names Sam Parr, Embarass, and Stonethrow coming from the immediate Newton area. Now we have Boos. The latest of these are organized by a single gallery building. Why do you have names coming from Jasper County, Illinois? Why? You have no connection to that county in real life. Oh, you have one. Dean was from that county. But that came after the whole idea was well on its way. You would name *all* of your collage series after place names in or immediately near this Jasper County. Let’s take a look at a map.

bb:

Do we have to?

Hucka D.:

Yes.

Not that one, although that shows the details of the names of series around Newton, the ones in the Red Umbrella and the latest created before Boos. Okay, actually that is a good one to start with. Then expanding out…

Ah, I found it:

bb:

That’s an interesting one to look at.

Hucka D.:

Give us a minute. We can update now.

So the order, according to the chronology of the series and adding in Greenup and Oblong, are:

(Greenup), Rose Hill, Yale, Newton, (Oblong), Hidalgo, Wheeler, Jasper, Gila, Latona, Lis, Falmouth, Sam Parr, Embarras, Stonethrow, and now Boos. That’s 16 collage series named for places in and around Jasper County, 14 within the county itself, including all the more recent ones. Beyond Oblong, that is, and that came from 2007.

bb:

So Boos is about the same distance from Newton, the county seat, as Falmouth to its north. A good comparison for Boos would be Gilatona-Lis to begin. Obviously Boos isn’t on the scale of Falmouth and its 61 collages, but it’s not far off of Gilatona-Lis’ pace with the 36 or so. Another way to see Boos is as a type of mini-Falmouth.

Hucka D.:

Good. Gilatona-Lis ends with a bang (4 part collage — first of of the tetraptychs). Boos, if it is complete, ends more with not a wimper, let’s say, but a dwindling, a more gentle leaving. “All Together Now”, just like the ending song of the “Yellow Submarine” movie, one of your favorites.

bb:

The movie, yes.

Hucka D.:

Per your advice we won’t name the main town involved in the Boos collages. We’ll call it T-Town.

bb:

Maybe Thornberry, like the toy avatar actor(‘s name).

Hucka D.:

Thornberry it is.

(to be continued)

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November 21, 2015 · 1:22 pm

collage 28:

“All Together Now”

And this *could* be it for the Boos collage series. I’ve basically run out of room in the Nautilus City gallery. We’ll see soon enough. Does it shift back to Rubi? Probably not.

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November 21, 2015 · 11:20 am