#umbrae

[noanaya]

mugshot

[maria-dib]

#athanasiuskircher #magna #arsmagnalucisetumbrae #lucis #umbrae #sun #moon #athanasius #agrandearte #luzesombra #luz #sombras #jesuita #arsmagna #krishna #shreembrzee #krsna #pan #lucis #umbrae #projeção #imagens #retina #cerebro #lanterna #magica #magia #Cosmometria #Gnomonica ॐ⊕♁☯☧♀♄♃ 💫🌟Boa noite!🙏🌟💫 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Magna_Lucis_et_Umbrae Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae "A Grande Arte da Luz e das Sombras" é uma obra de 1646 do estudioso jesuíta Athanasius Kircher . Foi dedicado a Fernando IV, Rei dos Romanos e publicado em Roma por Lodovico Grignani. Uma segunda edição foi publicada em Amsterdã em 1671 por Johann Jansson. : xxxiii Ars Magna foi a primeira descrição publicada na Europa da iluminação e projeção de imagens. O livro contém a primeira ilustração impressa de Saturno e a edição de 1671 também contém uma descrição da lanterna mágica . [4] :15 Ilustração de anamorfose de “Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae” Ars magna lucis et umbrae veio logo após o trabalho de Kircher sobre magnetismo, Magnes sive de Arte Magnetica (1641) e o título era um jogo de palavras. Em sua introdução, Kircher observa que a palavra 'magna' alude aos poderes do ímã, de modo que o título também pode ser lido “A Arte Magnética da Luz e da Sombra”. O trabalho era bem conhecido por várias décadas. : 101 Contente: Moondial de “Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae” Ars Magna é a primeira obra de Kircher a seguir uma estrutura simbólica. Consiste em dez livros, representados como as dez cordas do instrumento com o qual o salmista louva ao Senhor no Salmo 143 . [4] : 15 .Os dez livros também têm um significado cabalístico , indicando as dez sefirot . [7] : 23 Kircher lidou de forma abrangente com muitos aspectos diferentes da luz, incluindo físico, astronômico, astrológico e metafísico. Ele discutiu fenômenos como fluorescência , fosforescência e luminescência , ótica e perspectiva . [6] : 101 Ele também descreveu a pareidolia . O trabalho trata primeiro do sol, lua, estrelas, cometas, eclipses e planetas. Também discute fenômenos relacionados à luz, como ilusões de ótica, cor, refração, projeção e distorção. O trabalho inclui um dos primeiros científicos sobre a fosforescência... (em Vila Industrial, São Paulo-Sp) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTdiatpnLUcLQTdZtgUUmHpC8vh5RgB_GSnl2s0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[xxcandyacidxx]

some sinister circus stuff I did all relatively around the same time also idk why I’m so worrisome about my art, I did improve a lot wtf LMAO

Sinister Circus owned by @evilassumptions and myself

[welanabananaworld]

Us and the voice of dystopia

Jordan Peele’s latest film, Us, is as uncanny and disturbing as his first movie Get Out which proved itself to be a cinematic feat at the time of its release in 2017. Rightly considered as one of the fathers of the horror film renaissance (see also Ari Aster), Jordan Peele has been succeeding not only in addressing societal issues and in adopting a critical stance toward his home country but also in injecting an artistic vision in what is unfairly and generally regarded as second-class films. 

In Us, Jordan Peele’s strong sense of composition and framing reveals the main theme of the film : the duality of human nature through the evil self. Nothing revolutionary so far. Many films of the genre have explored the mythology surrounding the figure of the doppelgänger from multiple angles. For example, Alfred Hitchcock’s and Darren Aronofsky’s use of the double has a psychological bent; to dig through Scotty’s perverse psyche in the haunting Vertigo (1958) and to explore a mental illness in Black Swan (2011), whereas in The Great Dictator (1940), Charlie Chaplin chose to play both Hynkel and the Jewish barber for satirical purpose. In Us, nothing of the sort. Remember what we said about Jordan Peele’s films? About how the horror genre disguises social subtexts? But before aiming at the true meaning of this human mirror, one should focus more on the narrative use of the voice which proves to be of utter importance to understand what is at stake, because if you really listen to the voice, you understand the whole film.

Us tells the story of Adelaïde Wilson’s family who goes on holiday at the seaside in Santa Cruz. A series of strange coincidences reminds her of the trauma she experienced there when she was a little girl while vacationing with her parents. She made a disturbing encounter in the hall of mirrors of a funhouse. She came face to face with a little girl who looked just like her. After this event, she could no longer speak for a while because of, it seems, a post-traumatic stress disorder. At present day, overwhelmed with fear, she confides in her husband about her past. The same evening, they discover four people standing outside their house, their doppelgängers. Ruthlessly hunted, the Wilson family will have to look inward in order to counter their own selves. 

What strikes first when they all meet is that Red, Adelaïde’s double, is the only one  who is able to speak, or rather utter words. She is struggling with very word she says, as if her speech production was failing her somehow. When she starts speaking, her voice happens to be hoarse, cavernous, husky, strained, even  choked. Her disorder of phonation makes her voice otherworldly such as of a creature’s coming straight out of hell. It feels like she is not used to talk, actually that this is the first time she tries to pronounce and articulate words to create sentences. In this perspective, it is worth stressing Lupita Nyong’o’s astonishing work to produce Red’s chilling croaky and guttural voice. She used spasmodic dysphonia to make a creepy voice, that is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary breaks or interruptions in the voice due to an irregular flow of air. This language impairment, however, does not prevent Red from telling her story; the story of a dystopian world.

Red and Adelaïde are two sides of the same mirror. One learns that everything Adelaïde does is mirrored and has an impact on Red’s life, only the other way around. Everything that is happening in Red’s life is a pale copy of Adelaïde’s achievements and takes on a nightmarish dimension. Red’s husband, Abraham, is rough and dumb; her daughter, Umbrae, is born laughing and her son, Pluto, is a dangerous arsonist. The ideal family meets the poor and sad version of themselves who now claims justice through revenge, hence the imagery of the good and evil self. 

Throughout the film, the mise-en-scène keeps referring to the double as a warning or rather a prophecy as to the coming of those doppelgängers clad in red jumpsuits, which strangely resemble the clothing of prisoners. The clues left by the director are the following ones : the twin sisters of the superficial WASP family friends, the shadow of each member of the Wilson family projected on the sand while they are walking on the beach, the recurring number « 11:11 »  featured here and there (an extract from the Bible, Jeremiah 11:11), Jason wearing a mask (maybe a reference to the iconic masked murderer of Friday the 13th whose name is Jason?), Jason’s drawing showing a kid who looks just like him, a toy plastic spider behind which a true spider appears crawling across the low table of the living room, and of course the daze of mirrors. 

All those elements evoke duplicity and foresee a parallel world unknown so far. Red’s voice, alone, embraces all that imagery and embodies the punitive prophecy hidden behind the verse from the Old Testament book, the Book of Jeremiah, whose verse alludes to God’s wrath : « Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. » The invasion of the doppelgängers across the world is a divine plague orchestrated by Red from the underworld to take revenge. 

In fact, what the film tends to reveal all along is the existence of an underworld located inside « the thousands miles of tunnels beneath the continental United States », which are « abandoned subways systems », as stated at the very beginning of the film as an introduction. Those subways are inhabited by people who are the product of a failed governmental scientific experiment designed to replicate the bodies of those above to manipulate them. However, they discovered  that the « soul » could not be duplicated, hence the repudiation and neglect of that population now doomed to survive below the Earth’s surface, with raw rabbits as sole source of nourishment, and to « act out grim recreations of their respective partners’ above ground actions like sad little marionettes. »1 The scientific dimension of this governmental conspiracy is foretold in the opening credits by the camera progressively zooming out the caged rabbits. This shot conveys the idea of a sanitized laboratory. The existence of two opposite worlds is also mentioned by the shot which shows the funhouse twice, by night and day (darkness and daylight). 

The organised overthrow, which takes as an example the Hand Across America charity campaign of 1986 (giant human chain), can be interpreted in many ways : an uprising against social inequalities, such as racial, gender and salary based discrimination, which undermine the U.S (or Us); a country where climbing in the social ladder is more and more unattainable for under-represented ethnic minorities. It can also be seen as a denunciation of what America has become, unfair, poor and divided; a denunciation of the famous ideology of American exceptionalism through the ostentatious display of American symbols distorted by the horror genre. The « tethered » are done being downtrodden and ostracized. They want to embrace the American myth that had been promised to them by taking their rights back and by building a new world, hence Red’s assertive reply to Gabe’s question « Who are you, people? » : « We are Americans. » They claim themselves as being true Americans (to be connected to the Native American reference of the original funhouse’s sign), free from all materialistic concerns. 

Only, this does not constitute the twist ending of the film. Like all self-respecting horror films, Us is no exception in the matter and does offer a shocking one. And this is the voice which hints at it all along and that turns upside down the government’s theory about their human experiments. 

Red’s whistling while walking up the alley of the Wilson’s family with a pair of scissors in her hand in the dark is where the truth really lies. If one has well paid attention to the details, one would have noticed that Adelaïde whistled the same way when she was trapped in the hall of mirrors when she was a young girl, as if to ward off the coming threat. Do you see my point? Why is Adelaïde so reluctant and does have trouble engaging in a conversation with Kitty on the beach? Why would Red be the only tethered to be provided with the ability to speak? Why this eager for revenge? Because Red actually is the true Adelaïde. Back to the funhouse in 1986, young Adelaïde’s clone, Red, was lured to go to the surface as Adelaïde  progressively approached to her tragic destiny. 

What the film did not show is that Red strangled Adelaïde until she fainted, dragged her down the tunnel, attached her to her bed in the dormitory and switched place with her among Adelaïde’s family, hence her early language deficiency. While Red grew up like a normal little girl and learned how to speak, Adelaïde lost progressively her language abilities growing up among zombie-like human beings, which proves that the government’s theory is wrong. The soul cannot be duplicated but this does not mean that the tethered are « soulless creatures ». If given the chance, as Red has had, the tethered would have turned out perfectly okay. They would have followed the regular human evolution process called « hominisation » or « anthropogenesis », the process of becoming human. Indeed, the doppelgängers all look like primitive animals. Pluto, by his gesture, reminds of a monkey-like primate’s attitude and Abraham’s moans, groans and grunts are those of Cro-Magnon man. Their names evoke ancient times, something rough yet to evolve, and the mythology of the doppelgänger, Pluto being the god of the underworld, Umbrae the latin word for shadow. Abraham is the « Father of the nations » which can be connected to the human chain the tethered seek to initiate to rise up and find they own humanity. Red’s name could refer to the color of the tethered’ garments, and thus evoke the state of imprisonment which they have been reduced to until now. 

In this perspective, Red’s voice is not only the voice of dystopia but goes far beyond this sole and somewhat manichean opposition which is the driving force behind the narrative of the film. Red’s voice, by also being the voice of anthropological evolution, mainly serves to establish a connection between the latter subject and the current state of American society. With no equality of opportunity, people cannot equally seek higher social and intellectual status and end up being the slaves of the system. America has now no other choice but to drop her delusions and take her mask off. 

1 Bojalad, A., (2019, March 22). Us, Hands Across America, and the failed American experiment. Retrieved from https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/us-jordan-peele-hands-across-america/

[mannyblacque]

Today is 11-11. Be nice to your tethered if you happen to run into them. 

[sociopath-analysis]

Sociopath Profile: Umbrae

From the 2019 film Us Played by Shahadi Wright Joseph

Much like the rest of the Tethered, she turns out to be a low-functioning sociopath. Also, like Red, she ends up being a notable example of one.

Like the rest of the Tethered, she has a notable need for stimulation expressed through her sadistic urges. She always has a sadistic smirk whenever she is about to commit violence against the WIlsons.

She also has no remorse for what she does. Whether or not this is because of her nature of her race or of her own volition, she definitely sees nothing wrong with it. When Red calls her a little monster, she only smiles at the idea.

Like the Tethered, she has superficial emotions and doesn’t express any deeper connections beyond the obligatory familial connections that she has forged in her time with the other Tethered. And her face betrays no emotion other than that sadistic smile.

Female Sociopath List

[nefepants]

And the scariest bitch of all time award goes to....