Dæmon S.A fallen tree in a non-existent existence
This is my gnostic-nihilist extrapolation of the classic, philosophical "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?". It turns out, there was never a forest nor a tree to begin with. As René Magritte would say, "ceci n'est pas une arbre", both ontologically and in semiotics, as my drawing is just a signifier from a non-existent signified.
Alt-text:
A four-panel comic.
The first panel depicts a fallen tree surrounded by other trees alongside the text "A tree fell amidst the woods, but there was no one nearby to hear or see it falling".
The second panel is the same scene, but now the surrounding trees have a translucent, wireframe appearance that of a computer simulation. The text is "and the nearby trees weren't actually there: these were merely hallucinations from the tree's near-death experience".
In the third panel, the surrounding trees vanished completely while it's the ground being depicted with the translucent, wireframe appearance. The text is "and so was the ground, there was no ground, no dirt, no land, no biome".
In the fourth panel, the ground is gone, with the tree hovering in the middle of a purple void, the fallen tree is depicted with the translucent, wireframe appearance, and there are now three texts. The first two texts, as paragraphs above the fallen tree, says "The tree doesn't exist. There's no tree. / It's fallen since the beginning of its non-existence (never been an «it»)”. A third text, appearing as a red-colored speech inside a black and red speech balloon at the bottom right corner, is meant to break the fourth wall as it's spoken by an entity (for those who are familiar with my earlier drawings, the entity is Death Herself) addressing the viewer (us) as "wandering tree" (a twisted nod at the biblical verse Mark 8:24), says "Oh, hey, wandering tree! I was expecting ye, hon. Time to leave this silly Samsāra ye've been put in by Yaldabaoth".
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This is my gnostic-nihilist extrapolation of the classic, philosophical "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?". It turns out, there was never a forest nor a tree to begin with. As René Magritte would say, "ceci n'est pas une arbre", both ontologically and in semiotics, as my drawing is just a signifier from a non-existent signified.
Alt-text:
A four-panel comic.
The first panel depicts a fallen tree surrounded by other trees alongside the text "A tree fell amidst the woods, but there was no one nearby to hear or see it falling".
The second panel is the same scene, but now the surrounding trees have a translucent, wireframe appearance that of a computer simulation. The text is "and the nearby trees weren't actually there: these were merely hallucinations from the tree's near-death experience".
In the third panel, the surrounding trees vanished completely while it's the ground being depicted with the translucent, wireframe appearance. The text is "and so was the ground, there was no ground, no dirt, no land, no biome".
In the fourth panel, the ground is gone, with the tree hovering in the middle of a purple void, the fallen tree is depicted with the translucent, wireframe appearance, and there are now three texts. The first two texts, as paragraphs above the fallen tree, says "The tree doesn't exist. There's no tree. / It's fallen since the beginning of its non-existence (never been an «it»)”. A third text, appearing as a red-colored speech inside a black and red speech balloon at the bottom right corner, is meant to break the fourth wall as it's spoken by an entity (for those who are familiar with my earlier drawings, the entity is Death Herself) addressing the viewer (us) as "wandering tree" (a twisted nod at the biblical verse Mark 8:24), says "Oh, hey, wandering tree! I was expecting ye, hon. Time to leave this silly Samsāra ye've been put in by Yaldabaoth".
#ArsRitualisTemplii #digitaldrawing #darkart #occultart #philosophy
@[email protected]
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