Aprés Garde & Memetics

and presence of what it means to be alive and aware. I examine the shadow self and it’s existence as an entity in an adjacent dimension with other shadow people. This inscape spawned from a collective history of media over the last several hundred years. I see all these old animations and illustrations as a valid existence of consciousness. Hopefully after you view the work,

you’ll have gotten a glimpse into this world.

In her book on Memetics Susan Blackmore examines the Darwinian Evolutionary Model of natural genomic selection and evolution, and regards it as incomplete. She points to Richard Dawkins and Memetics as being a missing link in a chain of the genomic evolutionary process. The idea is that a meme, (as defined by Richard Dawkins) which cycles throughout our collective unconscious may in fact be the driver of the evolutionary process. In my line of thinking, the entire universe and every encompassing energy wavelet or particle is part of a unified consciousness, and creation on any level leads to conscious beings and things. Regardless of dimensional limitations in temporal or spatial parameters, life breeds life. Creation breeds creation.

If this is true, Cartoons as conceptually understood both in the Middle Ages, and today function as a powerful force of magick and mysticism that the centuries have distilled down to us.