Bill Hill October 25, 2009

“As you have surmised, we have a very special guest tonight, baker b.: Bill Hill. We’ll try it anyhow.”

bb:

Nice. Should we chat some first?

Hucka D.:

If you wish.

bb:

I’m getting that Bill Hill wants to look at some of the Oblong collages.

Hucka D.:

That’s correct. Oblong 3. Montana secures the afterlife.

bb:

Interesting. I suppose he’d also be interested in, say, Greenup 10 and 11.

Hucka D.:

We’re going to do some prepping. You ready for this?

bb:

You want for me to go inworld and look through my eyes again?

Hucka D.:

Yes. I want to look at the collage as Bill Hill might look at the collages.

bb:

Are we not going to speak to Bill Hill tonight?

Bill Hill:

Hey.

bb:

Hi Bill… Mr. Hill. (pause)

Bill Hill:

Hello.

bb:

Mr. Hill, are you a mountain turned into a hill?

Bill Hill:

The Devil is… (pause)

bb:

Mr. Hill? (no answer) Mr. Hill? (pause) Hucka D., I think he’s gone.

Hucka D.:

Then let’s go into the gallery. Let’s try the lower one… easier to move around in.

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[1:01] You decline NETP Information Giver from A group member named Fleep Tuque.
[1:02] Teleport completed from http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pons/105/23/38
[1:04] baker Bloch: So here we are, Hucka D.

[1:04] HD: I don’t want to look at that one. That’s “It’s All Here”. We want to look at the cleared out collages, you know.
[1:04] baker Bloch: Thank you Hucka D. Let’s move on, then.
[1:05] baker Bloch: This is the second and third collages of the Oblong series now, Hucka D.
[1:05] HD: It is, of course, the 3rd that begins to really interest me, baker b.
[1:06] baker Bloch: Is this Bill Hill yet?
[1:06] HD: Kind of.
[1:06] baker Bloch: I remember I… well it’s a long story.
[1:07] baker Bloch: I think Pencil Tail is where the series really got going.
[1:07] HD: We’re zooming into Birdtail Butte here, I remember.
[1:08] HD: Bird… tail. Pencil. Pencil characters. 2d from 3d. Grave… Pip. Gorilla/ape. Heading to Birdtail.
[1:08] HD: Top of Bird Tail. Seathwaite Fell below. SF. That’s what Bill Hill was looking for. That *is* Bill Hill.
[1:09] baker Bloch: I’m less sure about Santa Speaks, Hucka D.
[1:09] baker Bloch: It takes place on the other side of Scafell from Seathwaite Fell. The action I mean.
[1:10] HD: That’s where Peter died, baker b.
[1:10] baker Bloch: Yes… supposedly.
[1:10] HD: In that gill.
[1:10] HD: Santa seems to be saying something here, baker b. What?
[1:10] baker Bloch: Maybe the mysteries of his death?
[1:10] HD: Peter and Bill are intimately tied.
[1:11] baker Bloch: On Bill Hill now. I mean Seathwaite Fell.
[1:12] HD: The spoken, recorded words of Santa are now folded out neatly on the mountain, and then folded up neatly in the globe. Santa’s there again.
[1:12] HD: With his presents. Bag of toys.
[1:12] HD: He will be missed.
[1:13] baker Bloch: All this is part of one story. The ape-man is climbing the Earth related butte now, like King Kong on the Empire State Building… ESB.
[1:15] baker Bloch: bb: Just like the hikers. 3rd stage. Citrinitas.
[1:16] HD: They are looking for the mysteries of the Oblong series itself. Do you know them [baker b.]?
[1:16] baker Bloch: They are climbing Seathwaite Fell from a diff. direction in Oblong 09, Hucka D.
[1:16] HD: Like you are checking out both sides of Big Sink now.
[1:16] baker Bloch: Yes, I suppose.
[1:17] baker Bloch: Then in Oblong 10, on top. Ape is monkey. Dog is again dog. No humans, though. A 2001 type monolith in front. Represents pen and pencil together.
[1:17] HD: Pennsylvania. Corsica Prime.
[1:17] baker Bloch: Yes, Hucka D. Peter.
[1:18] baker Bloch: The Penn is mightier than the Pennsyl. (smiles)
[1:18] HD: Is it really?
[1:19] baker Bloch: Peter represents a greater energy, like ink over graphite. More efficient. Seathwaite Fell is where graphite originally came from. Purest source for, well, centuries actually. It all starts here.
[1:19] HD But Pen Rock was found on top of Seathwaite Fell, baker b. Correct?
[1:19] baker Bloch: Yes. This collage is all about that [juxtaposition].
[1:20] HD Green Gables in the background. Mary Anne?
[1:20] baker Bloch: I’m not sure, Hucka D.
[1:21] HD [In Oblong 11], passage through two gravestones, facing each other. Like Oblong 02. With a green oblong shape between them. Oblong.
[1:21] baker Bloch: Yes, Hucka D. There must be a relationship. I’m going back over briefly to Oblong 02 to check.

[1:22] baker Bloch: It’s that island in the middle of Grasmere Lake that Wordsworth was so interested in, Hucka D.
[1:22] HD: Grave.
[1:22] baker Bloch: The box in Oblong 11, the green one, is where all these letters of Oblong come from. It’s written on the box.
[1:22] baker Bloch: Back to Oblong 11, then.
[1:23] HD: What does that mean, baker b.? It seems significant.
[1:24] baker Bloch: It’s about the collage series itself, I suppose. Self reference.
[1:25] HD: Ahhh, 9 who became 1 instead of 8. Peter. Peter’s decision.
[1:25] baker Bloch: Yes, Hucka D. The second largest of the Seathwaite tarns became largest after the real largest, Sprinkling Tarn, was filled in by the council. This is..
[1:25] baker Bloch: *forgetting.*
[1:26] HD: Baker Bloch is typing now when there’s nothing to type. Maybe you better log out and back in. He seems broken.
[1:26] baker Bloch: Thank you Hucka D. Hold on…
[1:27] baker Bloch: There, he stopped. For a moment… of course he’s started now again now I’m typing again.
[1:27] baker Bloch: Seems ok now, Hucka D. Let’s continue.
[1:27] HD: bb: So this is the new, largest tarn of Seathwaite Fell zoomed in and stuff.
[1:28] baker Bloch: There’s the Grasmere Island again. The idea was to make Seathwaite Fell a microcosm of the entire Lake District, Hucka D.
[1:28] baker Bloch: This was S.F.’s choice. Forgetting…
[1:28] HD: About Peter.
[1:28] baker Bloch: Yes.
[1:28] HD: Yet you have signs of Peter all around the lake. You know?
[1:29] HD: There’s Bill Hill, baker b.

[1:29] baker Bloch: Yes. I know.
[1:29] HD: Your bird is the onlooking dingo now.
[1:29] baker Bloch: Ok.
[1:29] HD: What do you think this means?
[1:30] baker Bloch: It is another Pennsylvania runny mess sealed up by West Virginia. Sealed up by S.F. himself.
[1:30] baker Bloch: Peter must be forgotten.
[1:32] HD: Moire effect, baker b. Ill remembered. Confusion because of the cover up. It didn’t work properly, baker b.
[1:32] baker Bloch: You mean the attempt to make S.F. the whole Lake District. No, I suppose it didn’t.
[1:32] HD: It has the same flaws as a perpetual TILE waterfall.
[1:33] baker Bloch: Hucka D., I felt Oblong 15 here was the most successful of the series so far. Nice balance between all pictorial elements.
[1:33] HD: This is where the moire effect begins to become rectified, baker b.
[1:33] baker Bloch: Yes, I suppose.
[1:33] HD: Wet Rock. Found in… where?
[1:33] baker Bloch: Greenup Gill valley.
[1:34] HD: It then travels up the side of the mountain all the way to Tarn of Leaves. By way of Stanger Gill. Stanger. Stranger.
[1:34] baker Bloch: I remember that Tarn of Leaves is actually 3 tarns in one.
[1:36] HD: I am puzzled by [Oblong 17] admittedly, baker b.
[1:37] baker Bloch: bb: Yes, Oblong 17 represents a tricky impasse. Thank you.
[1:37] HD: Bill Hill thanks you for showing me your collages, baker b. We will continue.

Resonances… June 4, 2009

I’m exploring now the idea that the fuchsia colored building Karoz keeps running by on his way to the Inland Sea (elsewhere: Korean Channel) may be connected to the Wordsworth grave in the following collage from the 10×10, or Wheeler 09.*

Compare with this:

More links: both are connected to a pair of parrots and also a repeating waterfall. I’ll hopefully have more to say about all this in the past post here I haven’t completed the text for yet, as well as future posts. Believe I will. Just wanted to note for now.

* The 2 Baker Blinker Blog posts most related to this interesting collage can be found here and here.

Also interesting to note, as I read over the first link provided above again, that the original Wheeler 09 collage, replaced by this one, was subsequently used as the base for the 9th collage of the following series of Jasper, also using Rydal pictorial elements (containing the same rock laced portal, in fact, but without the waterfall this time).

*****

In fact, let’s just briefly bring in Hucka D. again to talk about this, perhaps. “Hucka?”

Hucka D.:

The ordinary parrot stands for Chilbo through the assoc. with its founder. The inverted parrot stands for Crabwoo, the degenerative double of Chilbo. The fuchsia diamond unites both through the portal and the waterfall. The portal has been found again… 512. Thank you.

We Better Chat, 2 March 25, 2009

“So Hucka D., if you don’t mind, let’s go back to Jasper 10, the very last collage in the 10×10 and the 100th overall. Just completed.”

Hucka D.:

Not quite.

bb:

Right, I’ll get to that by the end of this week, the polishing up. But we know basically what it’s going to look like. I think it’s obvious, now, that the central rectangle of 10×10 cubby holes represents not only the collage or art 10×10 but the new and improved Edwardston Station Gallery in Healy. This is about the relationship of all *3* old versions of Edwardston Station Gallery merging into this one. There’s only one now.

Hucka D.:

Only one.

bb:

The walking stick in Jasper 10, I believe, is the support by Yapland and Kelly herself for not maybe the ESG as much as the 10×10. But now the ESG as well, since she was gracious enough to provide land for the 30×30x30 cube.

Hucka D.:

Do you blame her for laughing? It’s a monstrosity, hehe!

bb:

Yeah, it doesn’t really belong on the ground. But it works well enough in Yapland West, as I’m calling it. But back to Jasper 10…

Hucka D.:

Otherland is covered up. No islands present in the bay — hidden by the white sign with nothing on it presently. How to advertise your gallery? The collage also represents a pre-Otherland and thus a pre-Xmas condition, where the Azure Island Ubertemple and its Otherland cousin haven’t been created yet. You still have, then, just the cube that was and still is the Temple of TILE. You’ve returned to your 30×30x30 cube here. And miraculously, perhaps, this cube now holds the entire 10×10, the entire 100 collages. No way you could see that coming. And at less than 100 prims as well — collages outnumber the structural prims.

bb:

Seefeld ESG is gone — the cross in the collage. Original Healy gallery is no more. Otherland gallery and temple are no more. Everything that was present when Jasper 01 was being created is now gone. Seefeld barely lasted through the Jasper series, even.

Hucka D.:

But you still are in Healy, and renting from Ms. Yap. That’s the best situation now. Pay her what she wants and give her what she deserves. She’s protected the 10×10… helped protect. That means a lot to both you and me. I have a stake in this as well.

bb:

Should we return to an overall analysis of the 10×10 tonight, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

Yes. We were talking about the limitations of SF [Seathwaite Fell]. This is rather abstract to the readers; best to link the collage names to the respective posts on Baker Bloch’s new-ish blog.

bb:

Right. I’ll do that. Baker Bloch is in the ESG gallery now, Hucka D., ready to help.

Hucka D.:

Let’s get to it.

*****

Hucka D.:

Actually, I think we should talk about the Temple of TILE in relationship to the new ESG. Both are 30×30x30 cubes. Both have the same outside design of criss-crossing red, green, blue and yellow tiles. Good that you arranged the colors in the ESG gallery in Healy to match the 4 compass directions [blue: north, green: west, yellow: south, red: east]. Now you must explore the possibility that the 30×30x30 ESG and the 30×30x30 Temple of TILE are two aspects of one [hyper]cube. You must explore the possibility that they are Jasper [ESG] and Newton [Temple of TILE] themselves.

bb:

Hucka D., I’m beginning to think that the only structures and property I need in SL are these two cubes and the 1024 parcels to put them on, and then a 3rd 1024 as a sort of sandbox. And that’s what I now have with the Healy-Klein-Aplasta triangle. And that’s less that 20 dollars, which is reasonable.

Hucka D.:

You can raise it higher if needed. But 20 is good.

bb:

So you want to get back to SF?

Hucka D.:

SF, in a way, is the entire 10×10 and also the ESG that now houses the complete 6 series the way it should be. Displayed, that is. (pause) One thing you need to emphasize to serious gallery goers is that the series are named for towns in or just around Jasper County, Illinois. The 10×10, really is Jasper itself, or the outer appearance [just as the Jasper series forms the "outer" series of the 10x10]. This obviously relates as well to the New Jerusalem of the Bible. New Town… Newton. Jasper 10 is about the 10×10 as a whole but also the 10 collages of the Jasper series, lined up now like the 10 letters of restaurant up and down the cross of that picture. Christian symbol again. What did you learn?

bb:

ESG [and the 10x10] was split between Seefeld and Healy at the time. Otherland represented the only place I could show it as a whole. Now I have a way to show it whole just in Healy alone, and on the prim allowance of a 1024 parcel.

Hucka D.:

You must work on the Temple of TILE now. There’s not a lot more you can do with ESG. It’s almost perfected, thanks in large to Arcadia Asylum. My hero… one of ‘em in SL.

bb:

So I need to use the sandbox again, as I’m calling it, in Aplasta. We’re not talking much about the 10×10.

Hucka D.:

No. Another night.

bb:

Thank you.

Jasper 10 March 17, 2009

“Amazing, Hucka D. Jasper 10 *might* be complete already.”

Hucka D.:

Not quite, but close.

bb:

But I still have Jasper 09 to do. And then the slight revisions to Jasper 01. I should be finished by Monday at the latest, I believe. Then I can really shift the focus to hiking, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

BROOK. Contact. Chancelling.

bb:

I was too tired to head out to BROOK today, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Tomorrow, then.

bb:

Yes. I have a feeling that Jasper 09 may have something to do with BROOK.

Hucka D.:

Could be (smiles).

bb:

Where’s Wilsonia these days, Hucka D.? Haven’t seen her around in a while.

Hucka D.:

She’s — well, I won’t say that.

bb:

I assume she’s still been drinking that coffee all this time.

Hucka D.:

Let’s talk about Jasper 10 now before I get into trouble.

bb:

Well, the main dilemma I have to resolve is whether to get rid of the Otherland 4096 parcel, Hucka D. And I think I’ve decided this is the best way to go. So in Jasper 10 the temple/gallery is replaced by a symbol of the 10×10 itself, from the little website I cooked up for on the *writing* 10×10 — but, of course, it would apply to the art 10×10 since it’s just a box of 10×10 cubby holes. Then I just started filling out various animations to move Jasper 10 and Jasper 01 closer and closer together. Notice the sign (double of the curtain the walking stick insect is “holding in Jasper 01) covers the islands in the background that represent Otherland. I think you can stick a fork in ‘em, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Most definitely. But you always have the option to return. Same for Azure Islands, which may be a better option since it would not require as much money. Neith, for example.

bb:

My old property there is still up for sale last time I checked.

Hucka D.:

Not yet.

bb:

No. So I don’t want to give up Klein now, and I can’t give up the Healy gallery. Seefeld is the only option, but then I wouldn’t have the full 10×10, minus the Greenup series, displayed in SL. Either Otherland had to go or all these mainlands galleries and temples had to go, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

That’s what I was going to say…

bb:

So let me continue with the animation description between Jasper 10 and Jasper 01. In 01 we have the Beatles playing beneath the curtain just mentioned; in 10 this changes into Martin from the Simpsons… George Martin to Martin Prince, just like we have in the Greenup 05 to Greenup 06 animation.

Hucka D.:

That was the first animation you decided to do, I believe, baker b. The one that started the animation sets.

bb:

Yes. The rock George Martin sits on in Jasper 01 changes into the Esau Junction mound Martin Prince also stands on in Greenup 05.

Hucka D.:

Esau Junction being next to Greenup in Oklahoma. Esau, in your Bible, is the son of Isaac, who is the son of Abraham and Sarah. Thus tying it to your lemon tree mythology as well.

bb:

But the Greenup series was created several years before the, um… lemon tree mythology really started to kick into high gear, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Yes… queer. (pause) I think in your Jasper 10 that Martin Prince should be with his apples and Brazil flag again, perhaps, like he is in Greenup 05. Interesting, perhaps, as well, that he is turned the opposite way from Greenup 05 in Jasper 10. Wonder if that has any meaning? (pause) I also understand you want to insert the Abominable snow monster just behind Martin Prince here. Correct?

bb:

Thinking about it.

Hucka D.:

You better continue with your animation description between the beginning and ending Jasper collages.

bb:

Right. So one I added into Jasper 01 in response to Jasper 10 is the word “Diamonds”, taken directly from the central animation set of Wheeler — Wheeler 05 and Wheeler 06. In Jasper 10, the word makes a straight line across the top, as it does in Wheeler 05. In Jasper 01 now, we have the same chaotic situation for the word and its letters that appeared in Wheeler 06…

Hucka D.:

And another one of your collages… which one?

bb:

That would be Yale 07.

Hucka D.:

Uh huh.

bb:

To continue, then — guess I should point out that the word “restaurant” now fully formed on the vertical axis of the cross present in both Jasper 01 and Jasper 10 also contains 10 straight, up-and-down letters, mirroring one of the vertical rows of the 10×10 to its right.

Hucka D.:

That may stand for the 10 collages of the Jasper series itself, the final row.

bb:

Good observation. (pause) Jasper 10 seems to be about completion and fulfilllment, which is understandable…

Hucka D.:

This is the final collage… the 100th of 100.

bb:

In Jasper 01, the letters of the word “Diamond” are flying around because the Jasper series itself hadn’t been formed… hadn’t settled down into a rowed pattern of 10 elements. And the Otherland situation hadn’t been resolved as well.

Hucka D.:

Is it resolved now?

bb:

Yes, think it is, Hucka D. I have to sell.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

The Jasper series is also lining up quite nicely in the Healy gallery, as it would have in the Otherland gallery had I decided to keep it. The space it is exhibited in affects the art itself, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Certainly does.

bb:

Then we have John Elway and his roller coaster reappearing here, replacing the Wilsonia/Golden Dodder symbiosis of Jasper 01. The key link between the two is the burning car — both Elway and “Wilsonia” are holding one. And they appear also to be one and the same car. Wonder what that means, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

Obviously it has something to do with the Otherland gallery and the 10×10 that was suppose to be permanently displayed within it, don’t you think?

bb:

Yes, but… but now we know that the 10×10 and the Otherland gallery are separate things, the first permanent and the second temporary and expendable. Tough still, though, to do this.

Hucka D.:

You don’t have to sell. You can rebuild it still.

bb:

Doesn’t seem like an option, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

No.

bb:

What about Hurla Dontbee, Hucka Doobie? (smiles)

Hucka D.:

I can handle her on my own terms.

bb:

I still have a little time to make this decision.

Hucka D.:

Well, what are your options? You can give up all mainlands rentals and keep Otherland and you’d still be paying 10, perhaps 15 more dollars a month for its 4096 parcel. You have the 10×10 basically on the mainland now. And now you have a mainland Temple of TILE. You can even build another temple easily enough. You can’t have both mainlands and estate property right now. Maybe some other time, though. But not now.

bb:

Yeah… suppose you’re right.

Hucka D.:

I’ll talk about some of the remaining animations of Jasper 01/Jasper 10 now. The Elway figure is directly from Yale 07. I believe he represents the correction of the “error” caused by buying the Otherland property in January, baker b. At the time, he lost his head; it turned blue underwater. Wilsonia chopped it off, baker b. and stole his burning car, which represents the sun here. Sun was replaced by Moon, baker b., don’t you think? [as recorded in Wheeler 03]

bb:

Yeah. Suppose so.

Hucka D.:

And the Otherland Island #2 has now been deleted in part. Interesting, eh? Including your former friend’s corner lot. Now you’ll never know the full story of the Garden of Eden and aliens that he was writing about in his book, baker b. That’s a shame.

bb:

I’m not sure I can give up the Otherland property.

Hucka D. (blowing out air):

Yes. Yes, you must give up that property.

bb:

Well… to continue. We have the mug reappearing from Jasper 05, which we now know represents a Klein bottle or mug as well, with the handle and all. This seems to represent the Klein version of the Temple of TILE now, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Yes. For now, your Simpsons’ Martin is staring right at it, even waving at it. Klein equals Kleiners as a whole. The whole sim, then. Otherland is blocked now, but you’ve made new friends. Kleiners.

bb:

Suppose so.

Hucka D.:

And if you think about it, that’s the 4th element that has just been added to the gallery/temple mainlands situation. You have 3 locations now on the mainlands. You have your Healy gallery, symbolized by the lighthouse to the right in Jasper 01 and Jasper 10, then the Seefeld skyscraper symbolized by the cross in both, and now the Klein temple. I think the temple should have been in Klein.

bb:

All along?

Hucka D.:

It has always been there. Hidden in a higher dimension. You must write more about the Klein temple very soon. Provide pictures in this blog… so forth.

bb:

Then we have walking sticks in both 01 and 10, and in the same basic position in each. An insect in 01, though, and an actual stick in 10. Care to comment?

Hucka D.:

The stick represents the support of the Healy gallery and its owner for your work… your collages… your 10×10. You inspire, as she said.

bb:

The walking stick in Jasper 01 also moved the curtain over top of the island that represent the Otherland archipelago. It would have been very easy to have been trapped there, Hucka D., so attractive the land is.

Hucka D.:

Yes land attractive is.

bb:

I think the burning car of Jasper 01 and 10 first shows up in the 10×10 in Greenup 15, Hucka D. And then the Casey Boy splits in two between Greenup 15 and Greenup 16, just like it does between Jasper 01 and 10.

Hucka D.:

We better end here.

bb:

Thank you.

Jasper 09 (“Sunny Day”) March 17, 2009

Here we go Hucka D… the draft of the *final* collage I’ve created for the Jasper series, and also for the 10×10 *as a whole*. On top of that we have a, ahem, prim and proper gallery to fit all of these works into now; the way it was suppose to happen. How could I have known?

Hucka D.:

Told you you needed to get rid of the Otherland parcel. You can thank Arcadia Asylum as well.

bb:

Of course I will. Will provide pictures and text about the new Aplasta gallery for the 10×10 asap, perhaps even tonight. But now to Jasper 09.

Hucka D.:

This is an idea on the backburner for a bit, at least during the creation of the Jasper series. The setting is Rydal again, and *spring*. You miss spring, baker b. It is coming soon enough, don’t worry.

bb:

Yes, I can see the idea that this collage is about spring and the need for experience of that season.

Hucka D.:

Nice that you put your 2 cats in this one, baker b. [black and white cats near the lower left corner] Johnny and Carson, isn’t it?

bb:

No. Eddie and Casey. Kind of after the famous psychic Edgar Cayce… Eddie’s from Edgar, originally, but we never call him that now. Just Eddie or Spaghetti Boy, just because it rhymes with Eddie.

Hucka D.:

They are leaning the opposite way from the water tower with “Britten” on it.

bb:

The b. of baker b. stands for breton, so I thought Britten was close. They’re baker b.’s (and Edna Million’s) kitties.

Hucka D.:

But they’re not really kitties anymore.

bb:

About a year and a half old now, I suppose. So: not really.

Hucka D.:

Then between the water tower and the cats are a very green Mossman, perhaps the most central figure of the collage, and also a circle of rocks that we know is a portal, perhaps between sl and rl. That’s the same portal from Wheeler 09, isn’t it baker b.?

bb:

Yes. But this time the water doesn’t flow from it, like it did in that collage. Maybe it is a fire portal now instead.

Hucka D.:

The way out of sl and back into rl, perhaps.

bb:

Mossmen are suppose to have created the RIVER portals, Hucka D. This one seems greener than Gene Fade, though.

Hucka D.:

Different, yes. Darker.

bb:

Blends almost totally into the bush in back of him. Or her.

Hucka D.:

Then we, I see, have that toy used to tile the background of a recent Jasper collage… Jasper 05, no Jasper 07.

bb:

Right.

Hucka D.:

You miss your pipe system from the older versions of your gallery[/temple].

bb:

Yeah. That could be part of it. The cats and the water tower seems to be leaning out of their way, like the cartoon figures of Oblong 04 lean left and right from the center. Quite similar.

Hucka D.:

‘Nother category for the Baker Bloch blog.

bb:

Yeah, could be. The overlap of a lemon and a lime prefigures the use of these in the Greenup series that follows the Jasper series in the big circle of the 10×10. It’s first used in the first collage of the Greenup series, as a matter of fact. Lime overlaps lemon here instead of visa versa. Now this seems to have something to do with SL, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Loss of all art inside The Man as it shifts from Lemon World to Lime World, i.e., Second Life as we know it today. Lemon World came first, but was eclipsed. It was called Linden World at first.

bb:

But linden is a lime, Hucka D. In Britain that is.

Hucka D.:

Britten (laughs).

bb:

I like the contrast of textures in this collage and backing photo, Hucka D. The mountains in the far background, for instance, with the checkerboard ball floating above it. We can’t tell how big the ball is from this perspective.

Hucka D.:

It looks big to me.

bb:

Well (baker b. checks collage again)… I guess you’re right. (smiles) What else with this collage, Hucka D.? (pause) I think we need to talk more about Lemon World and what exactly that is, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Interesting collage. Nice one to wrap up with. Tomorrow you will begin to create the final versions of all these; put it in your Healy gallery and, of course, your new Alpasta gallery. Then create another Temple of TILE, baker b. Just for practice.

bb:

Thank you Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

You’re welcome!

Jasper 08 March 16, 2009

“I think the theme of this one, Hucka D., is that there’s rarely a sunny day in Borrowdale. What do you think?”

Hucka D.:

Sudden rain, sudden flood. Doesn’t the being in the octagon enclosure looked shocked?

bb:

We’re going to pretend that some missing elements from this collage draft are already there, Hucka D., since they’ll be added in tomorrow. This would include the black and white Beatles playing in the middle of the road behind the octagon being, and then the demon in the dark window from Wheeler 08, appearing here in the leftmost barn door to the right in the collage — the ones the water is pouring out of. Self prophecy may be in effect here…

Hucka D.:

Right. Negative thinking. To put a sign up like that encourages the rainy weather itself. Self fulfilling.

bb:

Hucka D., I think this also has to do with the new BROOK idea. I believe the stream of the picture is the BROOK in a way. The hummingbird moves upstream here, away from the apparently surprised octagon being with the hummingbird shape embedded in the octagon cover. Most of these images have occurred before — the octagon and eyeballed being within is from Greenup 12 and also Greenup 20. The hummingbird is common in the last part of the Greenup series as well. The Arkansas flag stars are also from Greenup 20. Greenup 12 itself is set in Stonethewaite in the Lake District as is this one. This strongly relates, then, to Greenup 12 especially, but also Greenup 20. We don’t have the John Elway figure repeating from Greenup 12, above the octagon being there, but we have another John, Lennon this time, directly above this figure.

Hucka D.:

Something unexpected has come into Stonethwaite: flood. It threatens, perhaps, to wash the octagon being away, perhaps even the whole town. But probably, if anything, just the octagon being/person. The “D” letter has also appeared in a number of places in the 10×10, now. Most immediately, the very last collage, Jasper 07 (“It’s up to us now.”) and again from a sports related setting. The “D” in Jasper 07 stands for Detroit, though [Tigers; baseball team]; this one in Jasper 08 stands for Denver [Broncos; football team]. The “D” is in Greenup 12 as well, and there it’s obviously related to the John Elway figure, Elway being probably the most famous Bronco player of all time. Both the single “D” in Jasper 08 and the multiple “D”s of Jasper 07 are set within the outlines of dark blue diamond shapes. “D” stands for diamond as well, then. (pause). The martin flag of Jasper 07 is also obviously related to the flag of Jasper 08. The flag of 07 hangs from a [diamond willow] walking stick; the flag of 08 hangs from a telephone line running across its central street. Both flags hang vertically.

bb:

After being “up in the air” in Jasper 07, though, we are solidly back on the ground for Jasper 08. Back in the Lake District, as we were in Jasper 05 and 06. But now where it all started for the 10×10: Greenup Gill. For the stream flooding the streets of Stonethwaite here is from a picture of the flooded Stonethwaite Beck, where it forms from the confluence of Langstrath Beck and Greenup Gill at the ______ bridge. Let me check quickly on that fact.

*****

bb:

Well, I can’t quite find the location of that bridge, Hucka D., but it’s certainly close to this confluence.

Hucka D.:

At least close enough to call the two barn doors here the respective Greenup Gill and Langstrath Beck that combine to form Stonethwaite Beck. So is this like the formation of Silver from Green and Red?

bb:

Could be. Maybe I should color the doors such [green and red].

Hucka D.:

But now we know that BROOK is also associated with Greenup Gill. I wonder if the door with the demon smelling the flower is the Greenup Gill door. I would think it is, instead, the Langstrath Beck door — more water flows from it [Langstrath Beck is considerably larger than Greenup Gill at this confluence].

bb:

That would make sense, I suppose.

Hucka D.:

But back to BROOK… the hummingbird moving upstream mirrors the same which first appears in the 10×10 in Greenup 13, the one after the Stonethwaite setting in Greenup 12. The two hummingbirds are obviously the same bird. In Greenup 13, we are moving back into the Greenup Gill area after briefly visiting the Stonethwaite village. The same might be happening here. In Greenup 13, I believe the two beds of the collage stand for Langstrath Beck and Greenup Gill as well, the two sources of Stonethwaite Beck.

bb:

Interesting that the stream and the roads of the town become one and the same in Jasper 08, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Interesting, also, that the hummingbird of Greenup 13 faces toward the giant eyeball, where in Jasper 08 he faces away from it. But in Greenup 13, unlike the present collage, a jewel fills in for the pupil, an Alexandrite gem to be precise. Alexandrite appears green in natural light and red in artificial light.

bb:

In looking closer at Greenup 12, Hucka D., I believe that the miniature version of Stonethwaite village in the middle of the road of the, er, macro-version of this same village might be like the Stonethwaite Beck in the road of Jasper 08. Both are similarly colored and in the road, I mean. Both are named Stonethwaite.

Hucka D.:

Interesting observation. Also important to point out that the bluish hummingbird seems directly related to the martin of Greenup 12., which has also just appeared in the Jasper series as well [martin flag of Jasper 07].

bb:

The number 08 of Jasper 08 may relate to the central octagon figure within the collage as well.

Hucka D.:

We also have the phrase “Coack K” in both, with K directly related to D in each as well. This kind of image first appears in Greenup 08, although the actual Coach K (Duke coach image) appears even earlier in the 10×10 and the Greenup series. In Greenup 08, we are on the Greenup Gill, moving down into Stonethwaite village. There are two types of movements in the Greenup series, one from the north and one from the south. The center is that mound shown in Greenup 05 and Greenup 06, but also symbolized in other places… perhaps too difficult to explain here, hmmmm…

bb:

The hummingbird, directly related to the martin, represents the number 09 beyond 08, wouldn’t you think, though? As we have in the Billfork diagram.

Hucka D.:

Billfork diagram… trying to remember what that was. Wasn’t that from Floydada?

bb:

Yeah… mentioned within.

The hummingbird/martin is violet, 09, beyond orange, 08. We must follow this bird upstream again, like we did between Greenup 12 and Greenup 13. We must move away from Stonethwaite and orange and “D”, again, Hucka D. The Other.

Hucka D.:

Otherland.

*****

bb:

Hucka D., I think I need to deal, again — as well — with the Jigkansawyers of the Greenup series. The jigsaw piece of the Greenup Gill.

Hucka D.:

Parrot. Rydal.

bb:

In Greenup 17 we also have the confluence of Frank/Mossman/Heman and Herman Parks. “You’re a Herman Mossman” is the actual title. This would be around the same location or setting as Greenup 13. The hummingbird reappears, fluttering in front of another open hole, this time a cave. Meramec Cave… Amereca.

Hucka D.:

BROOK. Lost Valley. BROOK. B…ROOK.

bb:

This cave has a back door, though. Leading back to the very center of the Greenup Gill valley. Mound.

Hucka D.:

BROOK. Mound. Center.

bb:

Perhaps a flood in Greenup 17 as well.

Hucka D.:

We better end.

bb:

Thank you.

“It’s Up To Us Now.” March 12, 2009

“Hucka D., we’re gonna at least start an interpretation of the final version of Jasper 07 tonight. Do you want to begin?”

Hucka D.:

I like the way you put my picture in the collage. And with my *proper* eyes, or at least the ones I wanted.

bb:

Those eyes have an interesting story behind them, don’t they Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

They’re from the Starax goldfish originally found by you in SL at one of the Edwardston sims Esbum Michgan was so enamored with. Later we found that they existed in two separate location in the 3 Edwardston sims.

bb:

I think it’s time to reveal where those sims actually existed and their property names, for historical blog archving purposes.

Hucka D.:

OK, right. Well, this is the site about the now deleted sims… deleted as far as we can tell — along with Esbum Michigan herself now. They were part of the Delphic Archipelago, and the Edwardston sim proper was actually called Alexandria. Now we’ve talked a bit why you switched the name from Alexandria to Edwardston and I believe I cut you off during that explanation, saying it was a bit boring, since it involves Mythos terms that no one else would know. And such.

bb:

Well, as I was saying at the time…

Hucka D.:

… let’s save the explanation for later and move more into the collage, baker b., if you don’t mind.

bb (disappointed):

OK.

Hucka D.:

So we have me and my proper Starax crafted eyes, which are from a goldfish — still want them, baker b.! — and then — that’s me in the lower, right hand corner, readers, in case you want to know. Ain’t I a sight!

bb:

You look fine, Hucka D. Even without the Starax goldfish eyes.

Hucka D.:

Those eyes, um, loomed larger in the draft for this collage.

bb:

Your yellowness resonates with the proximate yellow chair the speaking Baker Bloch is sitting in, Hucka D. That’s a Jetson chair from the Zarek Lock gallery my Temple of TILE use to sit almost next to in Rubi, Hucka D. 4 Jetson chairs, and a table in the middle that wasn’t for sale along with the chairs. 4 Baker Blochs; 4 Jetson style chairs. And a 5th Baker Bloch “sits” on the table. All this from the pictures about the Rubi Diagonal from the past fall, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

I don’t think we need to review the Rubi Diagonal except to say that this has something directly to do with TILE… obviously.

bb:

The 4 Baker Blochs are the 4 colored aspects of TILE: blue, green, red, yellow. These same colors were found on the Vespasian sim of the Delphic Archipelago, the one that contained your TILE Pond, I believe. Your completely round head made the 4th circle to complete yellow along with the already present red, green, blue. You found these almost on the same day — perhaps the same day — that I found my “TILE lighthouse” on Azure Island #3.

Anyway, this prompted my rl exploration of TILE Creek, Hucka D., and thus directly lead to the introduction of the Toy Avatar mythology intimately tied now to this rl creek.

Hucka D.:

We must move to the collage, baker b.

bb:

Well, it’s about TILE to a large degree. The Baker Blochs are the 4 basic elements/colors of TILE, as I said. Their semi-circular, brick or *tile* platform is situated on a Rookwood tiled side of a Michigan building, repeatedly engraved, up and down, with the Detroit Tiger “D” logo. The letter D has already been featured in the 10×10 in the Greenup series, Hucka D. I specifically think of Greenup 12, “The Other”, which also contains a purple martin. There’s a purple martin flag in the most recent collage, which comes from Greenup 01. The purple of the martin seems related to the primary orange color of the Detroit Tigers tiles. This goes back to the Tyle Cube in the center of all the various versions of the Temple of TILE so far, including the new one in Klein — get to that soon! Orange and violet are related in that spinning cube to the Realm of Numbers. The colors of TILE on the same cube — red, green, blue, and yellow, again — are instead directly attached to the, er, oppositely spinning Realm of Letters. So altogether, these make up the 6 primary and secondary colors of the basic color wheel, Hucka D., or, in order around the wheel, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and then violet.

Hucka D.:

The bald man at the bottom of the orange center is a tiler, just like you baker b.

bb:

And you… with your beehives and all.

Hucka D.:

Maybe he’s putting the final touches on his Rookwood tiled creation. Like you are finishing up your collaged or tiled art 10×10.

bb:

Esbum Michigan has also returned in this collage, making her first appearance in the 10×10 in the Jasper series: Jasper 03; “St. Michigan”. Here she is also stepping over the chair, just as Mossman in Wheeler 06 steps over the wall, obscuring the bottom of his left leg there. Esbum’s right leg, instead, is hidden in Jasper 07 here. (pause) In looking at these two collages, Hucka D., I believe the curtain covering Mossman’s head in Wheeler 06 can be related to the similarly shaped and colored purple martin flag of Jasper 07. Don’t you think so?

Hucka D.:

Notice that both are connected to Diamond related walking sticks, an insect in the case of Wheeler 06. Must be a connection.

bb:

The letter “D” is also featured in Wheeler 06, Hucka D. It actually appears 3 times in that collage… multiple “D”s, then, just as we have in Jasper 07 now.

Hucka D.:

Uh huh.

bb:

Then we have the rusty keyhole reappearing in the Jasper series as well, this time originally found in Jasper 02. There it filled in for a pupil hole. The keyhole becomes the pupil itself.

Hucka D.:

Peephole. Peek-hole.

bb:

The overall shape of the orange tiled surface, in combination with the circular shape containing the keyhole at the top of the collage, is also keyhole shaped, Hucka D. The shape runs from the very top to the very bottom of the collage. This collage also happens to be 1024 pixels wide and 682 pixels high, making a relationship of 3:2 between the sides. 1024 is the size of the parcel I just rented in Klein, Hucka D [made up, as well, originally of 2 side-by-side 512 parcels]. The middle of the orange tile lies about 512 pixels from either side as well; exact center of the collage left-to-right, then.

Hucka D.:

You’re implying that this is related to the same ratios in Wheeler 09, thus, baker b.

baker b.:

Yes, I think so, although I don’t understand the full meaning of all that yet.

Hucka D.:

Study. Learn.

bb:

This despite the fact that the overall shape of Jasper 07 is not based on any found photo this time, Hucka D. It is instead *tiled* from an edited picture of a toy, found in a search for Rookwood+tiles, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

They’re clear tubes. Very non-colored and neutral.

bb:

Related to the strong chromatic colors of TILE and also the Realm of Numbers, you mean.

Hucka D.:

The background is neutral. It’s like they’re in heaven or sumtin. Floating; groundless.

bb:

Maybe that relates to the “It’s up to us now.” comment by the speaking Baker Bloch here. They’ve lost their ground, their Lake District base. It’s up to them now.

Hucka D.:

TILE. Tiling. Tiling Man. Beehives. Rook.

bb:

The table represents the overall TILE Table that balances the entire art 10×10, Hucka D. The keyhole in the background relates, once more, to [delete name], who will be resurrected in Michigan [Gill's Pier] in 2051, according to the mythology of the Cross of the Lamb. Esbum Michigan here steps on tiles found in Michigan: the Guardian Building in Detroit, again. (pause) Suppose we better end here for now.

Hucka D.:

You’re to be thanked.

bb:

Thanks!

“…Man” March 10, 2009

“Ok, Hucka D., we have a busy week and a 1/2 ahead. Let’s get to town on this one. Jasper 06. Is it finished?”

Hucka D.:

Might be. What we have in Jasper 05 and Jasper 06 is an animation, of course, the first where a cue of cars is diverted into Piers Gill, the giant gulch on the side of Lingmell Fell in England.

bb:

Ok, we had a bit of a glitch trying to run SL with all these Mozilla Firefox windows open, Hucka D., but I think we’re alright now. Just can’t run SL when creating these kind of posts. So… cues…

Hucka D.:

Then the 2nd cue of cars is allowed to pass up the road beyond the birds in the middle of the road and toward the blackbird now sitting in its center. What is the blackbird, then? And is it the same as the fox from Jasper 05?

bb:

The dingo and fox are obviously oppositioned between the 2 collages. This opposition has come up before in the 10×10, Hucka D., most immediately in Jasper 04, of course. But also, just in terms of animation sets, Newton 05 and Newton 06. That’s what I wanted to take a picture of in the gallery/temple of SL, Hucka D., before the computer locked up.

Hucka D.:

Let’s wing it instead with just images of Jasper 05 and Jasper 06 to work with. You can log in afterwards and take footnotes if you wish.

bb:

The dingo sits near the top of Pier’s Gill in Jasper 06, at the same level, top to bottom, as the fox did in Jasper 05. I wanted it to be that way; I made the level part happen, not synchronicity.

Hucka D.:

Is the dingo, in turn, the same as the Ancient from Jasper 05? Both are orange colored, after all. Both are around or in Pier’s Gill.

bb:

It’s a logical assumption, I suppose. Fox is on same level as dingo, as blackbird is on same level as Ancient. Fox-blackbird, then, as dingo=Ancient. The Ancient here, again, is the smiling orange face atop the Santa body, walking up the side of Piers Gill, just as Santa did in Oblong 06.

Hucka D.:

This is Max.

bb:

Well… Max is the man holding the stick, technically, or more immediately. The stick is the walking stick, the willow diamond walking stick, also found in “Doorpick” (Jasper 02). Again it bends impossibly around something, in this case the handle of a coffee mug to pass to its front. It securely holds this mug in its vise like grip, Hucka D. Seeminly.

Hucka D.:

Klein bottle. Paradox. 4d conveyed as 3d. Impossible perspective. Just as all the Standing and Crouching Bakers are associated with, and, by conveyance, the walking stick now. You must observe when and how people/avatars view your art. They are an influence.

bb:

The actual Max of the collages holds the walking stick in his enlarged hand in Jasper 05, and then upright in his ordinary hand in Jasper 06. Like he’s opening and closing a gate, almost.

Hucka D.:

He is opening and closing a gate. Gate of death.

bb:

The blackbird in the road is death? The road is the passage of life and death?

Hucka D.:

The fox is death. Jasper is death. The fox is the blackbird. Jasper the Rook/Raven/Crow. When the gate is open (stick up), then there is no barrier between the two. Life “naturally” passes into death, as the gatekeeper is suppose to allow. (pause)

bb:

Max, you mean?

Hucka D.:

But when the gate is closed and the impossible cup is lowered into the road, there is a diversion of the cue to another printer… I mean, another location. This would be Pier’s Gill.

bb:

Pier’s Gill is death, then.

Hucka D.:

The cue of cars seems to instead follow the Ancient up the gully, aiming for the top where the dingo stands in the next collage.

bb:

Maybe the gulch is now full of cars, and the dingo represents the new block. The flow of cars, the cue of cars, must be allowed into the death state again down the road, where the blackbird stands now. The blackbird is the more immediate form of death; the fox the more distant form.

Hucka D.:

It is very important to remember that this road is from The Jug. It allows passage into the Jug itself, which has been identified by Booker T. and his SID’s 1st Oz interview as the 4d penetrating 3d. Klein bottle. Klein jug. Impossible passage.

bb:

The cars in the back of the road in Jasper 06: are they the ones that have already passed into death? They are with the blackbird now?

Hucka D.:

Yes, I think so. In Jasper 05, you have a condition of part of the cars being in life and part in death. The stick, again, represents the transition point between the two realms, life and death. It is the moment of death, perhaps.

bb:

I’m still unclear about the diversion into Piers Gill. Is this defeat of death?

Hucka D.:

Yes. [Delete name]. Gill’s Pier. 2051.

bb:

Hucka D., I think the cars in the back of the road in Jasper 05 represent the ones that have reached Gill’s Pier. They’re white, like the von Trapp children in Jasper 04 under the Gill’s Pier sign. I think its… backwards, then. Jasper 06 represents the ordinary passage of life into death, around the birds of death, leading to the blackbird. This is death. Blackbird is the opposite of whiteness, like in Carrcass-1, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Singing in the dead of night.

bb:

Jasper 05, then, would be the more unusual circumstance of escaping from death, or the, like you said, “natural” life-death cycle. This would be through Piers Gill. This would be through [delete name].

Hucka D.:

[Delete name] teaches us about the blackbird singing in the dead of night and allowing us to set it free. White-black. Race relations a bit, but…

bb:

It’s also an unusual circumstance to have your hand enlarged like Max has in Jasper 05.

Hucka D.:

Hand is a key.

bb:

So the fox, which is the same as a blackbird, shows us a sneaky way around the normal life-death cycle. A sly way.

Hucka D.:

You must study. TILE.

Or the death state as already full. One *must* divert.

Hucka D.:

Go inworld now.

bb:

Thank you.

“Max…” March 6, 2009

“I don’t think this is the final version of Jasper 05 but we’re going to attempt to start an interpretation anyhoot, Hucka D. Hucka?”

Hucka D.:

No, this one’s not finished.

bb:

Do you want to talk about it anyway tonight?

Hucka D.:

Errrrr…. obviously you have Piers Gill again in this one. And the fox.

bb:

I suppose I should look up Coniston Old Man before we progress.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

*****

bb:

3/9/09:

“We may be far enough along to attempt a proper interpretation tonight, Hucka D. Do you think so?”

Hucka D.:

We’ll try. I think [delete name] is diverting the stream of cars going up the road into the gulch. Pier’s Gill. That’s the big, L-shaped slash to the left, of course.

bb:

Diverting with a coffee mug. But not just any ol’ coffee mug but one with Max Ernst’s “birds” on it, like we have in now nearby Greenup 10.

Hucka D.:

Right. Fantastic find, baker b. Of course it was planted there, though.

bb:

Do you want to talk about that more?

Hucka D.:

Obviously the logical choice for animating that particular part of Jasper 05 here is to make the coffee mug turn into your opus 19 *3* bird sculpture, your only real sculpture work, still, actually, unless you count the temple/gallery here. Which I think you should.

bb:

Thanks. I see it as SL outsider art of some type, perhaps. I’ve become attached to it.

Hucka D.:

The willow stick returns from Jasper 02, Doorpick. There are 2 Maxes in this photo as there were 2 Bakers in that particular one, Standing and Crouching. The Maxes here could be called Frontward and Backward Maxes, I guess. The reason I bring this up in particular is that just like Crouching Baker holds the diamond willow stick in Jasper 02, so Frontward Max holds the same in the Jasper 05 draft here. In his enlarged hand, I mean. There are 2 Maxes because there are 2 versions of the same, essential picture overlapping in this collage. They are really at the same place in the pictures, but are split in location here. Dopplegangers, like the Bakers before them.

bb:

The line of cars also appears before in the 10×10, and in another animation series. Actually 2 animation series — no, wait, just one. This would be Newton 05 and Newton 06, but they make their first appearance in the 10×10 in Yale 04. But it seems more closely related to Newton 05 and 06, remembering that Jasper is the higher octave of the Newton series in many ways…

Hucka D.:

As Wheeler to Yale before it. Just as in Newton, you built your psychic energy up a bit through an “introductory” series of collages before returning to the Lake District in full, as we had in Newton 05 and we have here in Jasper 05. The introduction in the present case comes through Wales, and Llanddwyn Island and Newborough Forest or Warren. From there we find the portal back to the Lake District through the Pier’s Gill/Gill’s Pier duality. Wales leads to Michigan leads to Lake District and Pier’s Gill, you see. But also Coniston Old Man now, a new addition to the Lake District images in your 10×10. Max. Maximilian.

bb:

I notice there’s an “X” in the center of the collage as well, made by the willow stick crossing the edge of the almost straight up-and-down road edge. Almost a regular “X”.

Hucka D.:

Max. X. Ancient. X marks the spot… that sort of stuff.

bb:

I think this one may be finished as far as adding in images. I’m still unsure why the line of cars are being diverted from the road that leads to the fox on the hill and into the gulch… Pier’s Gill. This would be through the crack in the road’s left wall, interestingly. Do the cars represent just rocks?

Hucka D.:

It should also be mentioned that the very top of the landscape here is not from Coniston Old Man nor Pier’s Gill, but represents instead the top of Foxes Gully already seen several times in the 10×10, like in Newton 07. Relating it again to the Newton series in terms of imagery.

bb:

I think this is different parts of the Lake District acting in unison to make a point or series of points.

Hucka D.:

Very perceptive. The line of cars seems to be following the Ancient up the side of the mountain, parallel to Pier’s Gill. What is this Ancient? An amalgomation of Santa Claus and your Edwardston spirit from the railroad tressel, also now seen as a spirit within the Edwardston railroad station recently added to your gallery/temple in Otherland. Is this what it looked like, baker b.?

bb:

Maybe. The face of the Ancient here reminds me of the red lion face found in the Oblong series (Oblong 03, 05, 07). The Santa figure is also from the same line of collages (Oblong 06, 07). They overlap, actually, in Oblong 07. Haven’t we already looked at that before in this blog in relation to, let’s see… yeah, I think it was “Willows Diamond” from the Wheeler series. Wheeler 05. Another 05, Hucka D.

(pause to log into SL and look at Oblong series)

Actually, Hucka D., the lion almost appears to be smiling, like the head of the Ancient in Jasper 05. In Oblong 07 he is covering more the pack of the same Santa Claus image instead of his head, Hucka D. And certainly the similarly red devil to the left in Oblong 07 is broadly smiling, leaning on Birdtail Butte in the background. (pause). A though occurred to me, today, Hucka D., and that is the Ancients are merely the 4 elements, like the red lion here stands for the element fire. Fire, air, earth, water, symbolized in those 4 very different and very distinctively shaped buttes in ___ County, Montana, Hucka D. 4 elements.

Hucka D.:

The red Santa is on the opposite side of Pier’s Gill now than he was in Oblong 06. And the diamond shaped wedge of Sprinking Tarn is missing. But we do have the diamond shapes in the diamond willow stick, as well as the name of the willow itself. Diamond.

bb:

The road is from an entirely different location, though, Hucka D., and that is The Jug in West Virginia, mentioned a couple of times in this blog at least. It’s where Booker T. went to in the middle of my interview with him concerning SID’s 1st Oz. He had a dream vision there.

Hucka D.:

He saw me, the bee.

bb:

Yeah, I forgot that part (smiles). The Y. Anyway, this is the bridge to the Jug itself, across the top or “lid” of the peninsula.

Hucka D.:

Why are the line of cars being diverted, then, from entering The Jug?

bb:

Maybe The Jug is not as important a center as the Lake District and Pier’s Gill.

Hucka D.:

I diverted them. In the next collage you’ll see the situation where they weren’t diverted. And the consequences. Dingo.

bb:

I know Booker T.’s vision in The Jug, which he first entered in the dream realm while camping just to the north of the lid, as we’re calling it here, remained incomplete. He couldn’t follow the Y entirely.

Hucka D.:

Yet he did the next day or series of days. To the source of Middle Island Creek and Bee. Ephraim Bee.

bb:

Maybe the cars now heading up Pier’s Gill represents this continued journey up Middle Island Creek by Booker T. Diverted, but only temporarily. Diverted to the actual source of the creek… and the Y.

Hucka D.:

The crow or blackbird or rook has also reappeared in Jasper 05. He is on the road behind the mug. Another roadblock? At any rate, he seems to be checking out the Ancient to his left, and perhaps Pier’s Gill.

bb:

The two birds on the mug, again which will show up in Greenup 10 soon, are a Y themselves, one with a fish extending from its mouth, attached to the mouth through a line. And then the other head of the bird/birds is attached to a balloon. Water and air, it seems. Too small to see in this particular picture, and especially the lower resolution draft.

Hucka D.:

The stick weaves its way around the cup’s handle to the front, like it weaves through the trees of Newborough Forest in Jasper 02 before it. And just like the distortions of the fish and Standing Baker make evident in Greenup 10, in combo with the cup of tea — balance of coffee mug? — and Crouching Baker just in front of them. Or is it *way* in front of them. We can’t tell; that’s the point.

bb:

Is this like a Klein bottle, then?

Hucka D.:

You better end here for tonight.

bb:

Thanks!

“Promised Land” March 4, 2009

Hucka D.:

So now we’ve landed safe and sound in Michigan, baker b. Gill’s Pier.

bb:

Yes. Thank you for being here. This is obviously a contrast between Gill’s Pier and Pier’s Gill. Flat and pastoral in former case and hugely steep, rocky, and unsettling in latter. Standing Baker has climbed to the edge of Pier’s Gill and is seeming to admiring the magical view into its phonetic inversion, Gill’s Pier, with a dingo in tow.

Hucka D.:

The Dingo.

bb:

Crouching baker is interacting with a wagon that has “Pier’s Gill” on its side. This is to the far left on the collage. He has the angel of Michigan (?) in the wagon, the one Esbum’s head covered in the former collage of St. Michigan. The darker part of the rock that the wagon is situated upon is not from Pier’s Gill, though, but from Gill’s Pier, as is the background for the right part of the collage, beyond the stream. The wagon use to say Gill’s Pier but baker has perhaps rearranged the letters to make it Pier’s Gill instead, and, in sync with this, attached the dark rock to the actual Pier’s Gill in England. The wagon can now, perhaps, magically ascend the edge of that gorge to the top. Is, perhaps, Crouching Baker attempting to move the wagon to the top of the crevass to toss it over the top, back to Gill’s Pier in the right part of the collage?

Hucka D.:

You are doing a good job explaining “Promised Land”. I think you should rename it, though. (pause) Maybe.

bb:

The dingo way up on the cliff, at its top in this collage, is balanced by the fox at the bottom, just inside the Gill’s Pier territory. This seems to be a contrast of Pier’s Gill and Gill’s Pier themselves again. The opposition of fox and dingo has surfaced a number of times in the art 10×10, Hucka D. Just off the top of my head, I think of Yale 04, 05, and 06 in particular. Yale 04 may especially apply here, since the fox and dingo are both present in that one together, just as we have here.

Reversal of words in signs has just occurred in the Wheeler series with “Hunt City” in Wheeler 09 turning into “City Hunt” in Wheeler 10, the last of that series. I also think back to Rose Hill 09 and the two Rose Hill city limits signs on opposite sides of that collage. (pause).

Hucka D.:

What are those children and that guitar wielding green creature to the far right?

bb:

Like you don’t know: that’s an aspect of the promised land. Different creatures can mix and understand each other, lie down in fields with each other. That didn’t come out right, did it? Anyway, that’s the impossible that can happen in paradise. This would be…

Hucka D.:

…2051. In Gill’s Pier, then.

bb:

Yes. According to the Cross of the Lamb glyph. [delete name], of course.

Hucka D.:

The cliff and gulch represent the gap between present and future. Crevass of time. Right now, if Standing Baker at the top would attempt to enter paradise, he would merely fall to his death?

bb:

There’s an interesting, powerful triangle of diminutive images forming around the rocks and cliff, Hucka D. This would be almost an (tilted) equilateral triangle, formed of Crouching Baker, fox, and then both Standing Baker and dingo at the apex. Do you see it? The triangle stands out because there are no other figures in the center of the collage; although I attempted to insert one or two or three there, I decided to remove them later on to emphasize this triangle. You have the opposites of Crouching and Standing Baker on one side, and dingo and fox on the other side. The apex unites these two complements or opposites: dingo + Standing Baker. Crouching Baker and fox also face west, while Standing Baker and dingo, united at the top, face east.

Hucka D.:

What is Crouching Baker doing to the wagon? Is he pushing it? Pulling it? Or manipulating it in some other way?

bb:

He seems to be either pushing or pulling the wagon.

Hucka D.:

Maybe, having rearranged the sign to spell Pier’s Gill instead of Gill’s Pier, he is now attempting to drag the wagon onto the actual Pier’s Gill cliff just to its right — up the incline, then. This is because it doesn’t belong to Gill’s Pier any longer, or the blackish rock it is standing on from Gill’s Pier. I think he’s attempting to move it to the east, then, baker b.

bb:

Or maybe he just rolled it down off that incline and is going to change the sign back to Gill’s Pier, to match the new location in the collage. Inverse of what you’re talking about, then.

Hucka D.:

Interesting. Could be either one. Or both.

bb:

Maybe it means that Gill’s Pier lies in the past, before Pier’s Gill, as well as the future. He must make amends with the past before passing into the future, the promised land.

Hucka D.:

You must be square with the past.

bb:

That triangle of small images is very interesting, indeed!

Hucka D.:

The fox may already have that knowledge. Fox seems to be the same as Crouching Baker, but perhaps in two different places in time.

bb:

Or maybe in almost the same instant of time. When Crouching Baker rearranges the wagon signs back to Gill’s Pier, he instantly, through the magic of this triangle, changes over to the fox *standing* in Gill’s Pier. Just on the edge, but clearly within the grassy meadow of that Michigan location.

Hucka D.:

I’m thinking that the past here may represent pre-art 10×10, and then, at the same time, pre-[delete name]. Pre-Pier’s Gill, in other words. Before the ascent to the top.

bb:

Which makes it the subject matter of the Oz/Floyd Paradox document, Hucka D., I’m guessing.

Hucka D.:

I think so. You must be square with the whole Dark Side of the Rainbow, Rainbow Sphere, SID’s 1st Oz relationship before moving on. The past secures the future.

bb:

We should add here that although this is the first appearance of Gill’s Pier in the 10×10, Pier’s Gill has come up before. Again, I think here especially of Oblong 06, and also, to a lesser degree, Oblong 18.

Hucka D.:

Let’s, then, at least take a look at “Santa Speaks” (Oblong 06).

(pause to take snapshot of image at the Gallery at the Temple of TILE)

bb:

I am unsure of the relationship between the newest collage and Oblong 06, although I did want to insert another one of those pictures of Santa Clause into Jasper 04. Just didn’t seem to fit — perhaps walking up the Pier’s Gill incline, as he is in Oblong 06.

Hucka D.:

The triangle overpowered, though.

bb:

I had an image of Truman with his suitcase there in-between Crouching Baker and Standing Baker on that narrow ridge. But I had to delete it.

Hucka D.:

It is a phantom image, still, in the overall animation of the collage. Past to present to future.

bb:

We better end.

Hucka D.:

Say thank you (smiles).

bb:

Thank you!