Noah Travis Phillips

. . . is a pair/duet
and can be presented in stereo or as a tower
the upper / left half was the corner of my studio ... for a long time, relatively stable, but slowly growing and changing over time ...
until it felt like it was time for an entirely new scene... (fresh start)
the lower /right is a constellation/folio of images that had developed around the time that this corner was crystallizing or whatever,
and they had a dialogue, so I pointed this lower scene toward the corner,
and they were on opposite sides of my studio, for a few weeks or months,
so I've also included a corner situation, to suggest the stern possibility

(in some way, right now, it is a wish for cooler weather, ...
and that could be climatic or emotional or interpersonal weathers)
when I was a kid (until I was 13) it had always snowed by Halloween,
when I was 13 it was the first time it ever had not, not this has become more common than not.

there are a lot of important images in this;

mythical animal
dreamachine pattern
'long hair in wind' drawing
'(like) snow on the ocean' drawing
snow lion (perky, shambhala)
yin yang
star from 'Approximately Dark Star Sword Constellation'
classic pattern from 'house & field book' w/ Jennifer Lord
many bees
weather book drawing
'Full Fathom Five' stretched vertically to have the proportional depth of five fathoms
void reacher and candle burning in hand
tesla coil and corpse on horseback
young woman / old hag optical illusion
ambidextrous stereo drawing
lightbulb and radiometer
jackalope
ouroboros

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thylacine
the wind blows / winds blow
storm dancer drawing
pentagram of branches
animal pattern
young shatter star
'young animal' drawing
salt crystal
crazy horse jumping over mountains
meteor that damaged Donald Judd sculpture in Marfa and durer solid from melancholia
extinct and newly evolved marks



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and some notes from closer to when I made these:


where have the internal twilights existed
inverse

welcome winter epoch scene

where might the thylacine go?


ecology
locality

black and white
extinction
struggle (to grow)


sword hero enters scene

meteor and durer solid


white brushstroke

the wind blows / the winds blow


(after corner panel in studio)
as a companion to?
but which is the companion to the other?


(crazy) horse leaping over mountains

occul(t)ist witness

salt crystal
branch star/pentagram


mythic animal
energy weather storm

thylacine (on mountainside)
hag tree

animals, young animal

shatterstar, hero w/ unsheathed blades


flower walking figure
extinct and living and plant growth
- sounds as space
venus goddess
rose in skeleton hand

many-sided dice


patterns camouflage,
diffusion pattern


welcome,
hidden/secret welcome

cold? distances? (or density
. . .