TOC FETCH


Kids of Lower Utopia Vol. 6 No3 Letters from the Front Lines


In this series of images, I am drawing a sequential 56 page story. Each page measures 30" x 50", and all are done primarily with a .3 mec-pencil on 200# paper.

In this, his eighth book, Toc is describing a life's experience through the lens of non-dualism as an allegorical dream in which the heroine, River Scout Finnagain, travels through a personal mythology of realizations to finally arrive at a place where her Gods wait. Her Gods are, for now, a Wolf and a Boy.

This story cannot be told better in another medium than the simple pencil; nothing holds the silent life of observation-in-light as a metaphor better. It is a form of minimalism that is conducive to trance work—my work. My images are "still-points," exacting places of realization where attention waits gathering silence carefully in vectors.

In all of my Work the smallest form of notation is a vector. All language, all communication, and all true Art is a vector. Just as a thought has energy and direction, taking the individual's attention from one point of awareness to another, everything perceived outside oneself points the attention to itself. And ultimately, everything points towards The Self, reminding us towards our Self. And, perceived as individuals apparently separate from each other, we Are (in love) to remind each other of our Self. We Are to remind each other that this is a dream and to Awake is why we live.

All that we perceive has life, and life is movement. Everything comes into existence, into being, as movement (the universe, the body, thoughts, time itself), what the Vedic Poetry of India spoke of as Jyothi-Jyothova" (Being-becoming). If you look for It (through drawing), you become accustomed to seeing It, recognizing It (re - cognizing It) everywhere and as everything.

"My story is a sequence of images (in a formal proximity) that initiates a narrative experience, an inductive/deductive flow of the soul. The viewer of the story closes the gap between the images with their own soul's natural ability to leap. The very personal pacing of visual narrative, stirs the intuition into non-linear leaping, very much like poetry in the tradition of Neruda, Rumi, and the Vedic family of Kashyapa.


Toc Fetch - 2004