Through the Looking-Glass; Into the Labyrinth Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://esoptron.ioevohe.io/ Joy Carter joyful.working@gmail.com Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://esoptron.ioevohe.io/posts/2022/02/golden-ball/ <p><img src="https://esoptron.ioevohe.io/posts/2022/02/golden-ball/queers-fascists.jpg" alt="image" /></p> <p>Sphaira, the golden ball that begins the fairytale – the emphatic moment when the ball slots into waiting hands. This began life as part of an interactive art project a friend designed – a gumball machine that dispensed these large, wooden beads, engraved with whimsical and true things. Mine says, in homage to Woody Guthrie, “This machine queers fascists.”</p> Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://esoptron.ioevohe.io/posts/2022/01/labyrinth/ <p><img src="https://esoptron.ioevohe.io/posts/2022/01/labyrinth/labyrinth.jpg" alt="mosaic" /> <em>House of Theseus / House of Orpheus in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Cyprus</em></p> <p>A mosaic of the labyrinth, complete with Ariadne’s thread marking the path. Ariadne, Theseus, the Minotaur, and the personifications of Crete and the Labyrinth itself are clustered in the middle. Taken in the Spring of 2019, at Paphos Archaeological Park on Cyprus.</p>