Also something thats intrigued me for a while now is the romantic view of Satan.
'Rather than simply a symbol of pure evil, the Romantic Satan appeared as an embodiment of vitality, strength, boldness, and political and cultural rebellion. Indeed, the Romantics sought to treat the Devil as a tragic or heroic figure worthy of pathos, thereby inaugurating the tradition of the Promethean Satan, an indefatigable rebel, long since abused by the oppression of Heaven.'
http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/representations-devil-nineteenth-century
It's a slighty random thought I know and I'm not thinking about Satan all the time y'know but words such as breach, chasm, crack, fissure, rupture bring to my head classic western depictions of hell.
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Hey Tom - some serious brain-storming occurring here! As I was reading about the essential fluidity of a single word, I was reminded of Derrida's theory of differance; he argued that everytime we use a word to mean something, we must postpone all alternate meanings in order to derive its meaning; also that language and therefore meaning is always haunted by the semantic ghosts of the meanings 'postponed'; he used this idea to destablise 'truth' as something achievable or 'fixed'... He argued too that you cannot keep plural meanings in play - the switch is either 'on' of 'off' - therefore, language is unreliable; anyway differance (a conflation of deferral (of meaning) and difference (between meanings) maybe a useful tool - especially if you can find a visual metaphor to articulate it - something like a hinge or an infinite regress (the mise en abyme)...
Remember too, Tom - that you want to also frame your minor project around an increased focus on what kind of creative you want to be; if you're going for a fine-art/auteur position, then you must base your work around developing a unique visual language that uses Maya in (perhaps) a suitably interdisciplinary way; the thing you MUST avoid is a blancmangey methodology in which your 'thinking' doesn't translate into visual language...
Hmmm challenging concept. Will come back later with some thoughts on it.
It's postmodernism so I'll need a least a few attempts at understanding it myself before I can grasp it a decent level.
in pure transcription terms, maybe you should take a look at the 9 circles of hell (lots of opportunity for environment stuff there) - another amazing opportunity for transcribing a hellish environment - Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights - personally, I'd LOVE to be able to visit that place via the magic of cg...
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