{"id":3988,"date":"2018-05-23T06:23:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T10:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:32:52","slug":"but-stranger-still-samuel-araya-explores-the-imagery-of-carcosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2018\/05\/but-stranger-still-samuel-araya-explores-the-imagery-of-carcosa\/","title":{"rendered":"But Stranger Still: Samuel Araya explores the imagery of Carcosa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:<\/strong> Samuel Araya previously explored his process for illustrating The King in Yellow<\/a> in \u201cThe Darkening of Materials<\/a>\u201d and \u201cNo Mask<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cBut Stranger Still\u201d is a love letter to one of my favorite paintings, B\u00f6cklin’s Isle of the Dead<\/em><\/a>. Chambers took Carcosa from Bierce<\/a>, so it seemed fair to take my Carcosa from B\u00f6cklin. I constructed the main island with a collage of rocks. Over that went a collage of windows, and I tried to improvise the overall structure.<\/p>\n

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When I read about the King in Yellow, my first impression of Carcosa was of a gargantuan city with labyrinths as streets, so I decided to go the complete opposite way. Carcosa as small, intimate, even claustrophobic, thus making the figure of the Stranger even more brooding. Surely in such a small piece of land, you must know of every stranger that comes ashore. This was a less “occult” interpretation of the text than before. But as a counterpoint, the figure of the King in Yellow in this painting appeared to me in a dream, just a night before I finished it, surely all strange coincidence.<\/p>\n

Samuel Araya
\nAscencion, 2018<\/p>\n

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EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Samuel Araya previously explored his process for illustrating The King in Yellow in \u201cThe Darkening of Materials\u201d and \u201cNo Mask.\u201d<\/p>\n

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