THE WIDENING GYRE

THE WIDENING GYRE - 2007-6:50-BY GEOFF BELL

Inspired by William Butler Yeats' poem, 'The Second Coming', The Widening Gyre is an experimental 'dreamscape' that contrasts an age of exuberance within the larger context of strong geopolitical uncertainties and anxieties we are witnessing right now. Although the word gyre means any manner of swirling vortex, Yeats claimed that the image of the gyre captured contrary motions inherent in the process of history. The Widening Gyre presents unfamiliar beauties emerging from our rich visual history and posits them in relationship to world where the social chaos, and the pressure of information, the 'wreckage', is monumental.