Category Archives: collages 2d

(continued from Lis Interpretations/Associations 03)

So we’re going to make a stab at Lis Interpretations/Associations 04. Since writing Lis I/A 03 the whole Falmouth series has unfolded suddenly. Excitement! But more to interpret, and because of the complexity of the 4 part series which acts as one whole going around in a circle, I have decided to go ahead and attempt to analyze that at the same time. So returning to Lis, and I assume Hucka D. is around this morning to help me, we have a late addition to Lis 05 that he didn’t approve of first, as I understand, but likes more now in light of Falmouth. So… this is Andrew Wythe’s Christina, from the painting of the same name. Hucka?

Christina is the same as both the man and the woman extending through Lis 01 Lis 02, and Lis 03 04, 04 to be specific. But it acts as a diptych so it’s really the first 3 pictures of the Lis series this figure appears in. And then she returns here, but in a slightly different form. In Lis 01, she is the woman, lone woman by herself, like the mountain in the center of Hayes County, Texas.* In Lis 02 she is paired with a man, making a Lone Woman and a Lone Man. In Lis 03 04, the man is without the woman — Lone Man. Can you find a picture of a map of this county quickly enough, baker b.?

baker b. (after a pause): I had to reload it.

Hucka D.:

Cool. That’s Hays County — sorry. The only Hayes County is in Nebraska and has basically no one in it. That was used in Latona 06 I believe — Hayes Center, the county seat. But it’s Hays we’re now shifting our attention to, and it’s really about [President] Hayes, once more. Shifted. So to return to Lone Man/Lone Woman, we have the man then approaching what we know is a mock up of Cygnus X-1 and its sun and black hole relationship. That’s new information. The man approaches — he is meeting Meat Shake, which is the same. It’s two things that shouldn’t belong together. Black Holes shouldn’t exist. We talked about black holes in the other important Avebury collage, or Latona 03 04. The Red Lion woman watched it form and become perfected — a perfect circle like a perfect ring — on the top of the Red Lion pub before fully manifesting between the 2 prominent Avebury rocks to its right in that diptych. Another diptych, then, like Lis 03 04, and with the same 2 numbers (03 04 of each series). Already we could illuminate this further by discussion of Falmouth, it has become so central. The rock in-between the 2 rocks the red clad being is seemingly stealing in Falmouth 03 is the same size as the circle of meditators atop the Red Lion pub in Falmouth 01. We have gone quite far, baker b. Good work once more. I lost my bet.

bb:

Thanks. Not to get away from Lis 05 too far, but I’m wondering if the vacant corner of Falmouth will be filled with something. Already I’m seeing Harrison’s hand in place of Hayes, and maybe his head in place of Hayes. But what would that mean?

Hucka D.:

We better stick to Lis 05. So here we have the Christina addition, which will become more understandable in Falmouth, once more. There it points to an alternate Falmouth where siginificant elements of Max Ernst’s “The Robing of the Bride” were/are/will be used, including the blue-green gargoyle with the spear, and als the prominent red plumage of the central “bride”, as it were. But in the Falmouth you decided to create, you substituted Ernst with the sweeter, much sweeter Man/Woman of 12 Oz Mouse, who instead pats the should of the central Red Lion woman, instead of trying to stab her, you see. Her hand becomes central. But once more we have wandered back to Falmouth.

bb:

The swan of Lis 05 — returning to that — has also been more recently altered to include an eye. And this is the same eye from the central figure of Lis 04, the preceding collage. This is the black hole of Cygnus X-1.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Most definitely yes.

bb:

The… you go ahead.

Hucka D.:

The swan swims on the line between two geograph squares, which are all 1 kilometer square. This is SU016 and SU116. The Crammer, the central pond of Lis 05, is on the line between the two. As the collage combines two Crammer locations into one to make the pond non-dimensional, one can say that it too has collapsed into a black hole. The Crammer is the black hole. The moon is trapped inside the water but cannot be raked out because it really doesn’t exist in our dimension. That’s the true story behind Devizes’ Moonrakers myth. It is that this lake, this pond, has become a black hole. In your collage — Lis 05, you did rake the moon out of the pond, but only by combining it with the sun, the little yellow fellow in the front. The moon touches the shore — Moon Landing. Yellow being manifests inside. This is pulling out of the black hole by the sun of Cygnus X-1. Matter has reversed out of the black hole and back into the sun. The yellow figure, who is McCoy in the Jelly Fox seeking group, is the same as the Meat Shake of Lis 04. Or the meat part anyways. And with this yellow guy, McCoy, comes the other parts of TILE that he is always attached to. They manifest at all the same time. This is the gargoyles as well of Lis 03, but their positive side, their future side if you may. If I may. They all drink from the TILE cup, which is Shake as well of course, as we’ll see illustrated in Lis 09 coming up. This group although they originate in Devizes and The Crammer, point to The Country beyond The Town for ultimate answers about Lis. They point to Alton Priors and Alton Barnes and Honeystreet and Falmouth beyond.

bb:

Let’s then get back to Lis 06. I won’t put up the picture again, but this is out in The Country now. We look over the top of Alton Barnes and Alton Priors toward Woodborough Hill, Hucka D., the site of the sunfish crop circles early in last years season, and already used in a number of Gilatona-Lis collages, most openly in Latona 00. In The Country… you go ahead again… sorry…

Hucka D.:

In The Country, the 4 part nature of TILE is more fully revealed as a rotating wheel that first appears as The Sun within The Moon in Lis 05. Here it begins as the same underneath or attached to the Rockley rock with the Rockley crop circle picture etched or engraved on its surface. This sculpture, last time we checked, still exists in The Barge at Honeystreet. It will prominently reappear in Falmouth, but let’s not go there again quite yet. The story behind this rock is that it’s symbolically Patrick Star’s rock of the Spongebob Squarepants Show, a favorite of your family as I understand.

bb:

We watch it all during Christmas, yeah. (laughs)

Hucka D.:

Truthfully it’s the silliness they don’t like, and the show, up front, states if you don’t enjoy nautical nonsense then it may not be to your liking.

bb:

But back to Lis 06, it’s Patrick’s rock, his home, and we know this from the star crop circle that appeared on top of Furze Hill in 2007, followed by a square shaped crop circle in the next field over in 2009 indicated his main bud Spongebob Squarepants, shaped like a square. I think we’ve already talked about those circles, along with the one that appeared at the bottom of Furze Hill — is it Knoll or Hill? — that also obviously indicted Patrick’s rock home, 3d style.

Hucka D.:

It’s Furze Knoll, I believe.

bb:

So this is Furze Knoll crop circles, then, imported to a location several miles southwest, where we look toward Woodborough Hill over the top of The Altons. Oh, I just thought of something — Latona is an anagram of Alton (!)

Hucka D.:

The 4 prime energies of TILE, let loose in The Country, are now rolling around in freedom. They are motoring. They quickly get on the highway for further adventures. They head to The Altons. Should we end? I think we should.

(continued in Lis Interpretations/Associations 05)

(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)