NYC October Artist Showcase 2024 - Nexus Mundane to Axis Mundi

Plogix October 2024 follow-up Artist Showcase in Times Square NYC.

The digi-montage series Nexus Mundane to Axis Mundi (Ancestral Tree 2024) was officially selected via invitation and recently screened in Times Square, NYC as part of Plogix Gallery Artist Showcase.

The showcase was on a large digital screen on the building at 1560 Broadway, Times Square and played on rotation for 24 hours on 29th of October 2024.

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Nexus Mundane to Axis Mundi (Ancestral Tree 2024) - Digital Montage Series

As a creative lateral step from the 2020 'Ancestral Tree' production, thematically this series likewise looks at our current collective broader sense environmental issues and the knock on impact that we all face and in relation to our inseparable bond with nature and greater 'Orlog' (the 'energetic cosmic web' / 'flower of life' / 'SpaceTime Matrix') and also the human psycho-spiritual, metaphysical and socio-political cultural plight during this digital era paradigm as we tango into the age of AI and hence the re-emerging allure to get 'grounded' (in nature).

Exploring the proactive surrender return journey to the ancestral tree of knowledge and the power and cosmic interconnectedness to this archetypical ground-zero root source of life where we can all access the timeless emptiness and lucid presence of our true universal interconnected soul.

The series draws from the archetypal representation of the cosmos as a universal sacred tree (Axis Mundi, Yggdrasil, Tree of Knowledge, Cosmic Tree, Ancestral Tree). In the Eddas the first human life forms were considered to have been cut from two tree limbs (Ask & Embla) and here we metaphorically see a tongue-in-cheek reverse free-will journey back to the great trees.

They rise up from the dystopian burning city ruins re-inspired as individuals and couples, empowered as groups ... Ask & Embla (Ash & Embla), Adam & Eve, Adam & Adam, Eve & Eve, they defiantly come together in compassionate loving embrace merging into archetypical ancestral trees rooted upon the fertile compost and burning embers of the former existential chaos.

The waste by-product of dogmatic utopian fallacy is the dystopian shadow that ever follows and defines their complacent mindsets ;-)

The series also forms style and conceptual reference for a film I am planning and represents a hybrid multi-media workflow via use of AI tools alongside more conventional VFX and GFX software workflow

Artist; Lars Magnus Holmgren via artistic banner Frankenskippy⁣
Copyright © Lars Magnus Holmgren 2024