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Dec 15, 2008 at 1:31 pm #1232648
Backpacking Light's Light in the Wild by Monte Dolack is featured in the most recent issue of the Big Sky Journal.
Read, Artist of the West: Defending Wild Places, a story about Light in the Wild's creator, Monte Dolack.
Dec 16, 2008 at 3:34 pm #1464787Fascinating article. I'd suspected that Dolack has a passion for mythology. The article points outs the artist's interest in myth as ways of learning and that its the foundation for much of the symbolism in his work.
I have LITW framed and on the wall next to my desk. It's an incredible masterpiece that you could never become tired of looking at it.
Joseph Campbell in 'The Hero With A Thousand Faces' wrote:
Throughout the inhabited world, in all times and under every circumstance, the myths of man have flourished; and they have been the living inspiration of whatever else may have appeared out of the activities of the human body and mind. It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest fairy tale – as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.
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