“we go by dark stairways
to the vaults of your soil” – sailors’ ode
Some tales from the realm of cerebria. This is a work of 12 plates and 3 word pieces from 2020. Watercolours, found images, digital painting and word/instrumental pieces with audio. Poetic works can be found in the book tastes of cerebria.
Here is a clavis, or key, to the realm. You can also see the folio postcards from cerebria, from earlier in 2020.
sailor carving a glyph
sailors’ ode
“for you speak texts of merit, of the arcane
in voices of an austere harmonic” – sailors’ ode
sailor seeking perizol
of a comet
“we speak of close passing
of perizol over the realm” – of a comet
cave cogitatio sine valentia
(beware of thinking without valuing)
occultation
prudentia saeculorum
(wisdom of the ages)

(detail)
the pearl miners

(detail)
near a cerebrian grove
luna vacua accendit
(moon lights the voids)

(detail)
tonight they walk this grove
“and the voids walk this grove
under violet boughs ” – tonight they walk this grove