In Which the Artist Talks Depeche Mode, Politics, Deep Virtual, Deep Space, James Webb, Quantum Physics and Fast Colors

The new work is becoming a series that I am calling The Reality Project, and a lyric from Depeche Mode’s song, “Master and Servant,” from Some Great Reward, 1984, captures the theme.

Has reality always been a dangerous game?

As we continue to pursue just what exactly reality is, we are traveling inward just as far as outward. Deep Virtual versus deep space. Imagination and the James Webb Space Telescope. A coup is a protest is a birthday party. Attempting to overthrow the government is bowling night. (Filmmakers continue to explore themes of altered time, manipulating reality, undiscovered psionic powers and alternate parallel worlds collliding—think Inception, Looper, Strange Matter and Fast Color.)

And what of time? Going backwards and forwards all the time and all time always with us like a bubble. And the multiverse? Events playing out slightly different ad infinitum. Recounts, sweet dreams, new stars. At some point all time lines, all reverse-births, all real and unreal energy has to exit or re-enter the engine—has to project.

How to name it, find it, imagine it, understand it, observe it? Science fiction writers have always shown us that whatever we can imagine is a possibility, which is both awesome and frightening.

There’s a new game we like to play, you see
A game with added reality

— "Master and Servant," Depeche Mode (M. L. Gore)

Master and Servant (Infra Intra Inter Version), 2022

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