![]() ![]() ![]() The symbolism of desertification hangs heavily over our species as our addiction to fossil fuels slowly cooks the planet. What happened, we ask? What does it mean? Do we turn around and go back? Or do we motor onwards? And so off with bravado we head toward the horizon, confident in our technology, yet secretly fearful of being swallowed by the sands. Which is precisely what makes a highway that runs out so disturbing. A desert highway need not have cars it has just to offer potential: to lead us, in our vehicular isolation, to civilisation at high speed, from even the furthest reaches of nature. With these symbols we attempt to tame the desert, to insist on perspective, to prove we are bigger than its expanse. It arrives pre-packaged with its own vanishing point and sculpturally minimalist aesthetic, inscribing the sandy void with the familiar markings of civilisation: dotted white lines, roadsigns, streetlights and roundabouts. The desert resists perspectival representation - until it is penetrated by that icon of 'progress', the Highway. There is an uneasiness at such immensity, and intensity, of nature. Surrounded by desert, the city-dweller feels small and exposed. Deserted, fully-signposted multi-lane highways cut swathes through the sand, only to end equally precipitously in the middle of nowhere monuments to excess and the money that ran out. Roads to Nowhere is an exhibition of photographic stills & video art shot in and around Dubai after the global financial crisis. #THE ROAD TO NOWHERE PDF#Hours: Wed/Thu/Sun 12-8pm | Fri-Sat 12-10:30pmĮnquiries: download PDF of works for sale MAPĮxhibition: Wednesday 2 May till Monday 11 June, 2012. ![]() In the final panels of the comics, Timothy manifests Yo-Yo back into existence, thus performing his first spell.Address: 47 George Street (side entrance), Sydney, Australia. However, both the brigade and himself soon realize that the choice was an illusion, since he's already seen the magical side of the world and won't be able to forget it. Then she sends Timothy back to his time.Īfter returning from the journey, Timothy tells the Trenchcoat Brigade that the price that he's seen is too high, and he chooses the regular life. She also mentions that she has "an appointment in Samara" with him, thus tying Mister E to an old legend. Death tells Mister E that Timothy's life is not his to take, and orders him to walk back to his time "the hard way" - one year at a time. The owl sacrifices itself to save Timothy, but soon their fight is interrupted by the appearance of first Destiny, and then Death who came to claim her brother and then the Universe itself. However, the worried Trenchcoat Brigade sends Yo-Yo through time to rescue Timothy. There, at the End of Time, Mister E reveals that he has no intention of taking Timothy back rather, he believes the boy to be weak like all humans and wants to kill him before the world corrupts his soul. Finally, they arrive at the End of Time when they meet the last thing remaining before the collapse of the Universe - the embodiment of the Major Arcana of Tarot inhabiting the place they call Terminus. Next Mister E takes Timothy thousands years into the future, showing him how both science and magic rise and fall time and again, taking different forms, until finally, millions years from now, both terms lose all meaning. This battle is fought differently in different futures, but it always signifies the end of magic for the centuries to come. First, they visit a point fifteen years from their time when a final battle between the magical forces of good and evil is being fought, and in this instance the grown-up Timothy is leading the forces of evil. Mister E takes Timothy to one of the possible futures. #THE ROAD TO NOWHERE SERIES#Book IV: The Road to Nowhere is the fourth and final issue in the limited series ' The Books of Magic. ![]()
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