Cryptych
This project serves as a play with peculiar combinations of mediums. Starting by combining words "Print" and "Triplicity" the question became - which aspects of both are going to be my topic? Triplicity is the core of our existence which interested me since early childhood. It infiltrates our reality so much that putting it all into this project is impossible, thus my specific interest for the purpose of this work became - Moirai - Three fates of Ancient Greek Mythology. At the same time the physical connection of triplicity with printed matter became translated in three interconnected objects that together form the whole message - two posters and a book. Pages in this book are purposefully shuffled and in order to read the text one would need to decipher the page order through the encrypted message in two posters.
Fate, Greek /Moira/, plural /Moirai/, Latin /Parca/, plural /Parcae/, in Greek and Roman mythology, they were any of three goddesses who determined human destinies, and in particular the span of a person’s life and his allotment of misery and suffering. Homer speaks of Fate (moira) in the singular as an impersonal power and sometimes makes its functions interchangeable with those of the Olympian gods. From the time of the poet Hesiod (8th century BC) on, however, the Fates were personified as three very old women who spin the threads of human destiny. Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the “thread” of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual’s moment of death). (Encyclopedia Britannica)
However if one would take a much more abstracted look at them, a new understanding would be discovered hidden in the concept of 3 fates. That being the change of the linear understanding of their functions into an endless, circular one. Atropos is not the End, death is life and she is the Beeing, the incomprehensible, untouchable and unmolding without the help of Clotho and Lachesis who serve as perspectives and metaphorical translations of human segregative way of perceiving the world. Thus, this book is separated into 3 narratives running through it, representing the idea of Fates and it’s close connection to Parmenides’s theory of Beeing.
Fate, Greek /Moira/, plural /Moirai/, Latin /Parca/, plural /Parcae/, in Greek and Roman mythology, they were any of three goddesses who determined human destinies, and in particular the span of a person’s life and his allotment of misery and suffering. Homer speaks of Fate (moira) in the singular as an impersonal power and sometimes makes its functions interchangeable with those of the Olympian gods. From the time of the poet Hesiod (8th century BC) on, however, the Fates were personified as three very old women who spin the threads of human destiny. Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the “thread” of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual’s moment of death). (Encyclopedia Britannica)
However if one would take a much more abstracted look at them, a new understanding would be discovered hidden in the concept of 3 fates. That being the change of the linear understanding of their functions into an endless, circular one. Atropos is not the End, death is life and she is the Beeing, the incomprehensible, untouchable and unmolding without the help of Clotho and Lachesis who serve as perspectives and metaphorical translations of human segregative way of perceiving the world. Thus, this book is separated into 3 narratives running through it, representing the idea of Fates and it’s close connection to Parmenides’s theory of Beeing.
