I. NEPHESH (Hebrew ----)
In the solitaire wanderings of a midnight wild,
Riddles tangled and gnarled have been structured and self-styled.
Explorer, adventurer, rationality pioneer;
Deconstructed carnage morality, Ego is now the master here.
Cauterized and scarred, no longer am I a crime;
Ecstasy is flesh, body as my soul, material existence sublime.
II. SINCERITY (Mandarin ----)
Terrestrial yearning, organic rapture, conceptual passion;
Reciprocal tease and play between abstract and concrete fashion.
Endeavor to pursue nature, acknowledge what is real;
Identify and integrate and manifest the ideal.
Thoughtful desire cultivates an inexhaustible season;
Beauty and clarity bound in this, sincerity to reason.
III. RATIONALITY (Greek ----)
Romantic realist, ideas mold physical versatility;
Divine is the intellect and its carnal agility.
Sculpting the earth with my hands, I raise my kind to pride;
Empires and Gods seek my gaze, in me they reside.
Celebrating the elegance of this exalted state,
I stamp millennia in my image, and liberty I create.
The Vampirical Chameleon
Purity is a tribute to the three ancient earthly philosophical traditions I admire and my ideal concept of self, specifically (as an individual) and generically (as a man). It is also a review of my life from 1993 to early 1999, with the elementary ideas and the means to answer the concerns, questions and conflicts raised in Salis (1993) and I Dream In Infrared (1992).
For a symbolism all too fitting, the final copy of Purity was written on the 62nd floor of The Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, pictured here.
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