On the Hill of Roses by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Gothic, weird fiction
ISBN: 9781908876034
Amazon: 1908876034
Publisher: Hieroglyphic Press
Published: 2012-06-28T22:00:00+00:00

Shadow

It was a time when I began to see points of orientation visible in the murkiness of life’s intricate labyrinth of occurrences, when, attaching a skein of thread to the first clearly discernible fixture, I started to unreel it after me in my advancement toward the light.

I was planning a work on a large scale that would state, in the form of a treatise, the most up-to-date results of my inquiries into the meaning of life and its mysteries.

In a journey commenced long ago, and which I had been continuing with no sign of weariness on my part and with the fervour of a brand new march, this was to have been, as it wrere, the first stage. Covered with the dust of the roads of my pilgrimage, I paused for a short hour in a wayside inn to throw a quick glance over the ground I had already covered, curse the dense signs, take in the results, and then, breathing fresh air into my panting breast, move forward to further inquiries.

The title of my treatise was ‘Symbols in Nature’. At first glance this tide may seem too confining in relation to the scope of the work. In truth, however, it concerned that symbolism hidden not only in organic nature, but also its cryptic presence in the so-called ‘dead world,’ in objects, and, not the least, in the immaterial sphere - that is, in events and phenomena. Symbolism, seen in this manner, unites all of life's occurrences through great underground ties into an integrated system. Understood thus, symbolism presents itself as an expression of the common relationship of things.

In the execution of my views I employed an insight method of straightforward introspection rather than surrendering to evolutionary theories, which deal with nothing, after all, but general nature. Where coincidences came into play too difficult to predict so as to be considered a product of a conscious psyche, or where one’s attention was spellbound by obtuse visions, ‘spiritless’ objects - there, from the nature of things, I had to leave the beaten track and move into areas less grasped by the intellect, though no less real.

At the conclusion of this work I intended to present the genesis of symbolism in art and demonstrate art’s close relation-ship to life and nature. I perceived the principal difference in this, that symbolism in life is always impulsive, innocently unconstrained and unaware of itself, whereas its counterpart in art is, from the essence of things, a result intentional and aware of the developing creative work. Undoubtedly the artist, as a ‘son of the earth,’ with his childlike intuition and imagination, is also an impulsive expression of the pandemonium of existence, but nevertheless still an expression aware of itself, in which a potent intelligence collaborates. That is why I would call the symbolism of life ‘virginal’ in its innocent impulses, in its naive outpouring of sincerity. Artistic symbolism would have the same relation to it as logic to geometry, which is, to some extent, a realization of the measurements and functions of the earth.

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