FIRST LIGHT
Pt. II
As the title suggests, First Light Pt. II is a sequel to the highly personal first series. Both attempts of the artist to recapture the mood and experience of a sequence of lucid dreams he had at a very young age. Visually the dreams involved a sublime, otherworldly light in an semi-abstracted landscape, with pathways, decayed stairs, glistening brook, trees, nondescript ruins, and an overall peripheral blur. The artist describes these visions as feeling inter-existential, like landscapes from in between lives. The earlier made First Light Pt. I series is also present on this website. Throughout his career he has recognized similar visions by various writers and artists, such as Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco Goya, William Shakespeare, William Blake, William Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, Gustave Doré, Arnold Böcklin, Odilon Redon, Andrei Tarkovsky and Olafur Eliasson. Bebardo believes that all these great writers and artists have evoked and exchanged their archetypal and transcendent visions of and from a collective human unconscious.
“Since you insist of limiting your mind to thoughts of wordly things alone, from the true light you reap only the dark”
Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy
(Virgil says to Dante in the second book Purgatory)
Installation of 9 art monitors (33″) with slideshows
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night”
Edgar Allan Poe – Eleonora
“That is not dead which can eternal lie – And with strange aeons even death may die”
H. P. Lovecraft – The Nameless City