TOTEM OF REALITY
I CAN SEE EVERYTHING FROM HERE
How we fail to reach consensus
in this distracted abstraction,
where complexity will not be negotiated.
When we worship we worship alone.
Our mutual Reality is in peril,
reduced to a binary scream on our screen.
Snapping out of it
will require collective action.
We need to gather around
something, anything, quickly.
Return to a more primitive brief.
First then may our urgent work commence.
But rather than following
someone else’s divisive reality,
we instead turn to something
that simply stands solid,
tall and rooted right smack
in the middle of it.
A pillar for here, a totem for now. A point of reference, to pull us out of the paralysis. A structure built for an old God, reappropriated for some fresh ones. A canvas, a light-post, a controversy. A transmitter of purpose and resistance.
From here we will investigate how creativity and spirituality can help us ride the tide, and bring about real change. From it can spring a truly global community, guided only by our own radical reorganisation of the pointless system in which we exist. We will be an unstoppable force towards our better purpose.
HENRIK DELEHAG
ICONOGRAPHER
As the keeper of the bell, it is bestowed upon me a duty of care. I must not allow a good tower to be a waste of heavens. From up here I will devise a new set of icons for humanity to gather around. New challenges demand new explanations. Only on the razors edge between black and white can the truth be revealed, the fault lines be exposed, the brief be agreed upon.
I will replace the old ones that failed us, and arrive at new conclusions, through active negotiation with the community and world surrounding the tower. Together we will convert the confusion into typographic essence, distill a complex reality into pebbles of our collective understanding.
And whenever we stray, I will take it upon myself to ring the bell, to call us back to base.
