12 November 2008

The Flame Inside



Image by Filipe Alves, from comic Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, by Álvaro Áspera & Filipe Alves, published in Aula Magna #0 magazine (Nov 2008).

Credits
Artist: Filipe Alves
Concept: Álvaro Áspera
Client: Aula Magna
Medium: Mixed

Script
Angelo wakes up. We see the chimerical flame reflected on his eye, as if it was burning inside him. This is a polysemic metaphor. To find its plural meaning we have to understand the human eye simultaneously as the soul's window and the world's mirror. We should picture it like this: the human eye is a strange oasis in the desert of the skin. And the sky it mirrors is a strange image of itself.
Álvaro Áspera, in Discourse on Voluntary Servitude comic script

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