Eye, Third Eye, and Tabernacle
Another silent essay, defining one cluster of images and story points to suggest the web of implicit connections that holds it together.
Okay, almost silent. This is a little oblique even for me, so I'll cheat a little and provide captions -- descriptive captions, that is. For explanations you're on your own.
Above, Zed's view through Zardoz's eye as it carries him to the vortex. Below, May, one of the Eternals, the vortex-dwelling illuminati behind the false Zardoz-religion, ponders a display of Zed; the size and placement of his head recalls Zardoz.
May takes Zed to her biolab inside the looking-glass pyramid for study. Behind her, a display shows the view from her Tabernacle-crystal ring as it penetrates Zed's eye to reveal his inner essence. Below, May receives immortality as a Tabernacle-crystal is implanted in the third-eye position.
Zed first encounters the Tabernacle, the entity that runs the vortex, in the form of Arthur Frane's ring. Below, Zed gazes into the haughty Tabernacle itself, but without understanding that the crystal is merely a host for photons structured into a computer: an artificial intelligence made purely of light.
Trapped mentally by the Tabernacle, Zed finally escapes by killing his reflection. Your explanation of that one is as good as mine. Below, Zed regards his defeated adversary, the now-tamed Tabernacle, and gives it to May as she and her followers flee the doomed vortex.
Okay, almost silent. This is a little oblique even for me, so I'll cheat a little and provide captions -- descriptive captions, that is. For explanations you're on your own.
Above, Zed's view through Zardoz's eye as it carries him to the vortex. Below, May, one of the Eternals, the vortex-dwelling illuminati behind the false Zardoz-religion, ponders a display of Zed; the size and placement of his head recalls Zardoz.
May takes Zed to her biolab inside the looking-glass pyramid for study. Behind her, a display shows the view from her Tabernacle-crystal ring as it penetrates Zed's eye to reveal his inner essence. Below, May receives immortality as a Tabernacle-crystal is implanted in the third-eye position.
Zed first encounters the Tabernacle, the entity that runs the vortex, in the form of Arthur Frane's ring. Below, Zed gazes into the haughty Tabernacle itself, but without understanding that the crystal is merely a host for photons structured into a computer: an artificial intelligence made purely of light.
Trapped mentally by the Tabernacle, Zed finally escapes by killing his reflection. Your explanation of that one is as good as mine. Below, Zed regards his defeated adversary, the now-tamed Tabernacle, and gives it to May as she and her followers flee the doomed vortex.
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