KING AND QUEEN OF THE WORLD – MY DREAMTIME STORY

SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, AFTER A MAJOR WORLDWIDE CATASTROPHE DURING WHICH MOST OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WERE WIPED OUT, THOSE LEFT FORMED A COMMITTEE OF WISE PEOPLE, AND APPOINTED AN EXTREMELY SMART AND INSIGHTFUL MAN AS THE KING OF THE WORLD.

SOME OF HIS DUTIES AND CHALLENGES WERE TO FORM A NEW WORLD ORDER IN A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO RE-ESTABLISH CIVILIZATIONS.

ALL WENT WELL FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS , BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE NEW KING OF THE WORLD COULDN’T SHAKE THE OLD MALE DOMINEERING, CONTROLLING AND MALE EGOCENTRIC CHARACTER TRAITS WHICH CAUSED  MOST OF THE WORLDLY PROBLEMS  GOING BACK THOUSANDS OF GENERATIONS.

AS MOST OF THE SURVIVORS OF THIS MAJOR UPHEAVAL WERE WOMEN, BEING THE  MORE ENDURING AND ROBUST OF THE HUMAN RACE, A NEW COMMITTEE  OF ONLY WOMEN WAS FORMED.

AFTER LONG DEBATES AND DISCUSSIONS, THEY DECIDED TO REMOVE THE KING OF THE WORLD FROM HIS POSITION AS SUPREME LEADER.

THEY GAVE HIM A PRETTY NICE MEDAL IN RECOGNITION OF SOME OF HIS GOOD WORK, GAVE HIM A PENSION, BARELY ABOVE THE POVERTY LINE, AND ALL THE NEWEST ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION GIZMOS WITH WHICH HE COULD WATCH HOW THE NEW LEADER OF THE WORLD,  THE QUEEN OF THE WORLD,  WOULD TRY AND FIX ALL THE SCREW UPS…

AFTER A LONG SEARCH, THE COMMITTEE  DISCOVERED A TRIBAL ELDER IN THE DEEPEST JUNGLES OF AFRICA, THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION ALL THOSE THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.  THIS STATESWOMAN SEEMED TO POSSESS  MOST OF THE ATTRIBUTES THAT THE COMMITTEE WAS LOOKING FOR IN A NEW WORLD LEADER.

TRANSPARENCY, COMPASSION, HONESTY, WISDOM, AND AN ELEMENT OF THE MYSTERIOUS POWER SHE HOLDS WITHIN…

THIS ASSEMBLAGE ATTEMPTS TO SYMBOLICALLY PRESENT:wood, found items sculpture

—THE WARMTH OF HER BROWN SKIN, REPRESENTING THE EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS.

— A BEAUTIFUL BUT TRANSPARENT BRAIN.

— THE WARM GLOW OF A COMPASSIONATE HEART.

— THE RETURN OF BEAUTY AND HOPE, FROM DECAY AND DESTRUCTION, REPRESENTED BY THE HANGING SHELLS.

— THE NUMBER OF SHELLS, REPRESENTING HER MYSTERIOUS POWERS…

ON THE LEFT, 8 SHELLS REPRESENTING THE LUCKY # 8 in CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

ON THE RIGHT 9 SHELLS REPRESENTING THE MYSTERY OF THE BEATLES SONG REVOLUTION 9

THE TOTAL NUMBER ADDING UP TO 17, A PRIME NUMBER REPRESENTING ONE AND ALL AS IS THE CHARACTER OF ALL PRIME NUMBERS…..

BUT SHE STILL RESTS ON A RATHER SMALL AND INSIGNIFICANT BASE REPRESENTING THE VULNERABILITY OF THE HUMAN RACE WHICH IS BUT A SMALL FRACTION OF THE LIFE OF OUR PLANET, WHICH WILL PROBABLY SURVIVE WITH OR WITHOUT HUMANS.