Oil Painting on linen.

Size: 130 H x 160 W x 3.7 D cm

An allegorical representation of the collapse of confidence in western culture. In Sophianic animism the ice within glaciers represents stored memory and thus the ideas of the earth. A western pillar of thought is collapsing on the mountain of Seir as the serac crumbles in to the valley below. Although this painting is commenting on the current collective subconscious of europa and its state of soullessness which has lead to creeping authoritarianism, the painting is still optimistic. A single climber representing the sovereign spirit of the rhomay (human tenacity) is striving on, in his soul ascent up the mountain. Mountains are natural temples which funnel telluric currents between the earth and sun therefore the activity of mountaineering is equivalent to honouring and interacting with the forces of nature which redeem those who dare to dream of their eternally adorned pearlescent pinnacles. Images within this painting that fuse to form a new envisioned fictional place, were sourced from photographs of several other himalayan peaks and expeditions made by Reinhold Messner and Chris Bonnington.