About the Herasaga
About the Herasaga
-
- Church and Horse
-
- Horse and Train
-
- Moon and Cow
Book I. Hera or Empathy:
The cover artwork, Colville’s “Church and Horse” (1964), shows nature in opposition to the religious representation of reality, in which nature is the passive outcome of an act of creation. Here religion is portrayed as a lifeless empty façade (the building) and broken domain (the gate), and is juxtaposed to the fierce energy and determination of the living, riderless animal that moves menacingly toward the standpoint of the viewer, unstoppably away and out.
Book II. The Priesthood of Science:
The cover artwork, Colville’s “Horse and Train” (1954), shows human technology in its head-on confrontation with a vastly more powerful, living nature. The horse, again rider-less and uncontrolled, moving away from the viewer, paradoxically towering in size over the train and opposing itself fearlessly to it, sets itself squarely upon the tracks, eschewing the surrounding fields.
Book III. Hera the Buddha:
The cover artwork, Colville’s “Moon and Cow” (1963), shows a much domesticated animal—which is thus itself both a human creation yet still also living nature—at rest in the night, after a long day of her labors in the service of human needs (but with no human masters now present), facing away from the viewer, at peace with nature.
- No comments yet.