What The Fire Said: Uncharted Waters

What The Fire Said

What The Fire Said is the portal for my own art and writing. It is necessarily a work in progress, and you are welcome to return anytime to see what has been added here.

In my header you will see both contemporary calibration dials and centuries-old symbols used in the practice of alchemy. My art tends to operate at the interface between such extremes: between our shared distant past and an unknown far future, between the realities of history and the at-times greater realities that lie over the threshold in the world of myth. At these extremes science and magic, myth and history turn into each other, become indistinguishable from each other – as in the far future they well might. ~ Hawkwood (David Bergen)

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Hawkwood (David Bergen)

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Sooner or later the edge of the map is reached. That line between the known and the unknown offers us a choice: either to retrace our journey and stay with what is familiar to us, or to strike out into uncharted waters and discover what the horizon has to offer. But the map which has guided our course up till now was not drawn using information gathered by someone who spent their time sitting on the shore. All maps have been created by those who went beyond the maps which they had, and slowly the indistinct coastlines of the unknown emerged. But the expansion of one world involves the diminishing of another. The more maps of the unknown that are drawn, the smaller the siren's world becomes. The siren, whose very allure draws us into the unknown, herself becomes a fading shadow whose reality we now ungraciously dismiss as a fiction, as she is forced ever further into retreat before our adventuring.

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