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love of the illusion he, too, pined away. itself in a dimension in which it may again to after-images, recreating a transparent, machines projecting
In his place by the pool grew up a live the story timelessly, for a complex and evanescent process in paintings, a wide curtain lit softly,
flower, the Narcissus. So Tiresias moment or forever. "Images', says the mind of the artist. Diaghilev then brittle, a silhouetted tapestry
spoke true and Nemesis had her way. Georges Mathieu, 'provide a support once observed that 'drama is nothing gaining texture and form, real
Other versions of the story, from for my dreams, for my attempt to else but myth ... brought by the figures in intimate relationship with
Conon, probably one of Ovid's escape from the human predicament all-observing fantasy of the artist landscape—the means are
sources, to that of Robert Graves, My own notion of the latter is the to its essence and interpreted in vital subservient to the aim of
have made much of the role of imposed struggle to make permanent form before an audience ..." The demonstrating the act of creation as
Aeminius, the rejected male lover of the impermanent, to deny the change, means of interpretation, the tools existing outside time in the same way
Narcissus, a personification of mutation and flux which is the used by the Black Box Group are many as dream-images, so that the image
frustrated passion and vengeance. reality of existence. One has a need and technologically varied. The has only to occur for the dreamer to
Thus the motifs of beauty and for an ambiguous, undefinable space techniques of magic and illusion are become the image, the dancer to
illusion, passion and revenge, in which the senses may function with ancient, but they are here used in become the dance.
reflection and death are powerfully regained innocence. combination with uniquely created Beryl Leatham Thomas
present, forming the dynamic of the In the Black Box the human figure effects born of the essential nature of
new work, acted upon by the in its context of pillar and arch the subject and the use of new The address of The Black Box
manifold tensions within the echoing canopied woods, landscapes materials. Theatre is 12, Saint Augustine's Road,
creative entity of the Group. Inside the rocks and rivers, trees and flowers, A term like "mixed media" has Camden Town, London NW1.
Black Box the myth awaits the spaces filled with light, are reborn on embarrassing connotations which The workshop is at The Assembly
audience which, shepherded first the retina ; fore-images are projected do not apply here, for the means, Rooms, Arthur Street, Oswestry
through a magical wood, finds on to reality, reflected back and forth screens shifting opaque to SY11 1 JN.