Digital Mythology.

I have always been interested in the questioning of our origins, history and purpose and how we accept the answers we may or may not find. A big part of this is the role of mythology and religion and how they have impacted our relationship with truth and the acceptance of truths. This includes a fascination with mortality, architecture in general and specifically in relation to religious structures, predominantly churches.

I currently and for some time now, tend to agree with the following features that can be retrospectively applied to mythology in general. That myths are a rational explanation of natural events and forces, prior to additional knowledge to the contrary. That myths were a function, created by the ruling class to control society.

This is very much a looking back approach, however, I find it coincides with looking forward with our digital, cyber and off-world future and considering these factors, what we may or may not do if we were to come across a primitive civilisation in the cosmos. Add to this a touch of neon and futurism and you have the insight to what sometimes goes on in my own mind…!

Even Tolstoy once wrote: “At a certain level man becomes aware, deep within himself, of something supernatural.”

Some might call it art.