The Bacchae

^{A thirty-two page self-published zine, telling the story of Euripides’ Bacchae through a variety of visual media; ranging from repurposed calendars, to advertisements cut from gardening magazines, to pages ripped from books (notably Stevenson’s 1885 work A Child’s Garden of Verses), to contemporary and historical artworks. All ripped, cut and jumbled back together in a bricolage format that takes hyperorality and the multiplicity of the body as central to understanding The Bacchae. The process of creating this adaptation in many ways mirrors the treatment of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in De Juan (2007, p.119-20), where a seemingly infallible text of Classical scholarship is systematically dissected and reconfigured to create a grotesque monster of reimagined meaning.
The grandeur of time elevates texts such as The Bacchae to cultural monoliffs and the myths contained within them become cemented as the ‘canon’ accounts; the ‘original’ version of the myth. This project attempts to highlight that this view of mythology, as a static dogma, is inherently anachronistic.}

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A Thousand Tiny Feet

An illustrated response to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, exploring the singular’s disintegration into multiplicity, the Rhizome and the terror of the epidermal layer.

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