Dexter Deacon concludes

Given the complexity of Dr Deacon's analysis of this inaugural Oafy project we are here posting his final comments on the subject of the ecotechnological elements inherent in our World Vices installation.

"..."Bull in a china shop" analogy generated by the HGM (Helpfull gallery minder) certainly drew my attention to the common suspicions of an increasingly broad community at odds with the industrial era. This demonstrated how often mythological elements can be confused within the context of contemporary events. The ecotechnological paradigm or Arcadian element as I have called it is inevitably drawn into the task of becoming a reference point for problems which face us in the present. In other words the desire to find a solution to technological problems beyond our control summons up visions of a better way of doing things, which is based on principles developed from a mythological past. This is perhaps the minotaur trapped within a labyrinth of its own repeated self image.

However as I have shown in my exposition of the fundamental workings of the mysterious egg forms, our historical unease has another set of principles with which it can seek relief. While social and historical forces almost inevitably gain the upper hand in priorities of interpretation and solution, and the desire for endlessly deferred pleasure leads us into an animistic quest of hedonistic expansion- we can still keep in mind the principle of centripetal motion. The current focus on centrifugal motion and heat and friction generating technologies has led to the global result of a lack of binding or inward moving technologies and cultures. The storage or release of nutrients in water depending on rising or falling temperature gradients is a basic example of this, a response to this phenomenon is the natural breathing cycle of plant life as nitrogen is stored or released in response to the anaerobic or aerobic activity in soil microbes. The egg form is of course the energy residue of an inward moving and therefore binding flow dynamic, a cooling temperature gradient allowing for the storage of carbon elements-bound by calcium in the shell and gently held in an energetic state by the rotation of water within this form, the ideal state for germination or uptake by other living organisms.

While this exposition leaves many gaps and unanswered questions I would like to thank OAFY and the conceptual modernist team for allowing me this brief interpretation of the ecotechnological elements inherent in the World Vices installation. Perhaps by placing the worklight inside our mysterious egg forms we have in a sense, in the act of gazing into that place- concealed from ourselves a process which was taking place. The frustration of such mysteries will no doubt lead to further speculation on my part.