Chthonic

Common Ancestor: 590 Million Years Ago

The Sleepwalkers

Existence is a stage on which we pass,
a sleepwalk trick for mind and heart
— Peter Hammill 'Childlike Faith In Childhood's End'

Dali Painting

Velasquez Painting

Vermeer Painting

Lost In A Forest Of Pronouns

From Being To Becoming

So leave the ways that are making you be
What you really don’t want to be
Leave the ways that are making you love
What you really don’t want to love
— Nick Drake 'Time Has Told Me'

paraNormal Distribution

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
— Kurt Vonnegut

Time Dilation

Nothing

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
— Martin Gardner 'The Mathematical Magic Show'

Matter Deforms The Grid Of Space-Time

Common Ancestor: 25 Million Years Ago

Local Consistency, Global Inconsistency

Devilish Five-Fold Symmetry

The Metathing Is Not The Thing

The Imaginary Cinephile

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.
— Peter Greenaway

Proverb

Too many proofs spoil the truth.
— Peter Greenaway

Profit-Maximising Cinema

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

— Peter Greenaway

Angles On Experience

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher … or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
— Douglas Adams 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'

Waterfall

Virtual Unreality

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
— Peter Greenaway

Up & Down

Cinematic Metaphor

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.
— Peter Greenaway

Reptiles

Drawing Hands

Relativity

Cosmogenesis

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
— Douglas Adams 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
— Douglas Adams 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'

No Trouble

the day the world stood still
the day the world stood still
no trouble —
not even at the mill
— John Cooper Clarke 'The Day The World Stood Still'

Fungal Bioluminescence

Fog Fern & Fire