The Cult Revived (2015-present)
‘We live, today, in a terminal moraine of myths and mythic symbols.’ (Joseph Campbell)
‘We cannot now reconstruct them with any certainty.’ (Ronald Hutton)
The Cult Revived contends that echoes of archaic oral cultures can be found in the textual residues of the present. It therefore amasses its own moraine of textual debris by randomly intermingling sources from a range of subjects, including archaeology, ecology, geology, toponymy, mythology, religion and folklore. This material becomes the site for a series of poetic excavations. The Cult Revived therefore performs a failed literary archaeology by trying to reconstitute found fragments into an artefactual whole. The process becomes one of repeated reassembly, with textual shards laid on the museum table in various juxtapositions in the hope that they may represent the exploded shape of the great lost form. The outcome, however, can only ever be a work-in-progress — an attempt to synthesise meaning from impossibly shattered elements.