Marina Zurkow is a genius
Dark Chemistry has a characteristically fine analysis of my Hyperobjects 4.0 at his blog.
The more I look at them the more I think Marina Zurkow's Elixir series shows us something speculative realism is also showing. The fragile glass decanters, containing their cartoon line drawing humans in their bottled worlds, are correlationist ships in bottles, storm tossed inside the hyperobject of climate. Dark Chemistry discusses the Cthulhu allusion in my talk, in which I compare hyperobjects to Lovecraft's mad god. It's as if we have woken up to find ourselves inside a monster.
Just came across this passage in H.P. Lovecraft that reminde me of Marina's spherical object floating on the ocean of being:
ReplyDelete"...I have recollections of emerging into the great sculptured hemisphere and of threading our back trail through Cyclopean rooms and corridors of the dead city; yet these are purely dream fragments involving no memory of volition, details, or physical exertion. It was as if we floated in a nebulous world or dimension without time, causation, or orientation. The grey half-light of a vast circular space..."
- At The Moutain of Madness