Last month I opened a new avenue for this ongoing art-experiment, but when I stepped back and saw the coming scale of it all, I thought of pausing for a moment to give some thought for... everything, when it comes to this project. As is well known, the artistic personality is the opposite of the personality trait conscientiousness, and thus not well-suited for anything dealing with structure or form. Nevertheless, as the experimentation continues, and moves into new territories, there comes a time when it all is in danger of fragmenting into too many directions at once, decohering altogether into nonsense... and so, giving it a proper name seemed to be in order: Via Sophia.
This naming coincided with a new audio form that recently opened as a possibility - that is, thanks to the technological advancements of this modern society, it is now feasible to translate text into speech, believably enough, and with sufficient eloquence and expediency. I immediately thought taking advance of this sudden... "advancement", and created a youtube channel for this purpose, naming it as aforementioned "Via Sophia". With this new possibility came the wider concern about this project - namely, what is it, all, exactly? By now, it has been over five years since I first began, in writing. In the beginning, it opened up as an explosive outburst of obsessive storytelling, fueled by sudden onset of severe enantiodromia, but since then, after dozens of short stories, hundreds of visual artworks, the whole frame-project (bringing the visuals into physical reality), one experimental text-adventure game, and now recently music and a youtube series... there comes a point where one needs to step back to re-examine the whole thing. So, what is it all about? It's difficult to say. If we begin from the very beginning, the stories started as a fragmented storyline about a man awaking from a coma in the modern age, which then quickly spiralled into victorian era gothic-stories. Then, with the emergence of the Anima-Sophia, it turned into examination of that phenomenon, a wider investigation of Jungian psychoanalytics - an attempt of understanding these underlying psychic forces. Then, when things slowed down on the writing front, the experimentation turned into visual arts (of which there's still only a fraction available online - maybe some day I will dumb them all somewhere, for all to see... those few who might care, anyway). Then, as the field of AI-arts progressed, it evolved into that direction, giving more opportunities to experiment... and finally, now, as the psychic forces of developing Anima have steered thought more towards audio (from visual), I have begun learning music composition and cello-playing, and have translated some of the stories into audio form, and widened the overall storyline from there. Is that where the most potential lies, then - in music and audio? Who knows. A strong intuition hints at music being the ultimate form of art, and I do not disagree. Then again, mastering the cello - for example - takes more than one lifetime, even if one begins from childhood... and I'm personally far beyond that age by now. So what avenues or possibilities remain? I do not know. All I can do is continue the experiment... and one thing is for certain: continue I shall. For Sophia.
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