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AUTHOR’S AFTERWORD
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True, the statue’s a bronze monochrome but, especially when you’re blessed or cursed with a phantacea like mine (that’s Greek for imagination), it isn’t much of a stretch to see his skin golden-brown, his cloak having many colours, his pouch as a bottomless bag and his blade curved. There’s no indication as to whom the statue represents but every other statue in the park is based on Greek and/or Mediterranean mythology so, mostly from the Liberty Cap, I’m thinking it is Phrygian Attis. In other words I’m seeing Feel Theo’s Taurus Chrysaor Attis.
Go inside the Palace, up the stairs to the third level. Lo, there’s David Alfaro Siqueiros’s Nueva democracia (“New Democracy”), probably the most famous Mexican mural ever done. Me, I don’t see Siqueiros’s wife, Angelica Arenal de Siqueiros, as the iconic, bare-breasted woman breaking out of chains. I see the whole mural as representing Datong Harmonia, Feel Theo’s self-proclaimed Unity of Panharmonium. To Humanity’s left, occupying the entire west wall of the mezzanine, is Diego Rivera’s “Man, Controller of the Universe”. Nelson Rockefeller commissioned the original in 1933 for New York City’s RCA Building. When Rivera refused to remove the figure of Vladimir Lenin, Rockefeller had the entire mural chiselled off the wall. Needless to say, New York’s loss thereafter became Mexico’s gain. On the right third of the Rivera mural, he shows a decapitated statue of a Great God. Below it, note the peasant sitting on its severed head as if a cushion. Who do you suppose the god might be? Opposite it, way across the stairwell on the mezzanine’s east wall is La Katharsis by José Clemente Orozco. Could that red-skinned voluptuary be beguiling Belialma, Sinistral Lust of Satanwyck? Of course it could (not). Who’d have thought Mexico City would provide a veritable hotbed of imagery
applicable to the PHANTACEA Mythos? I’m the
obvious answer to that. But, now that you’ve read
So how does this jibe with You can probably find jpegs of every one of the Mexico City murals or monuments I refer to above online. You can definitely find some of them among the stacks of personal photos I’ve mounted on my long-running website: PHANTACEA on the Web. A few have even creapt onto phantacea.com, which is solely dedicated to the various PHANTACEA Mythos print publications.
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Webpage last updated: Winter 2011/12There may be no cure for aphantasia (defined as 'having a blind or absent mind's eye') but there certainly is for aphantacea ('a'='without', like the 'an' in 'anheroic')
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