St George and the Dragon: Nocturnal sparing for the awaiting Maiden in the process of hatching, the Dragon competing with the bridle tulle of St. George, from a performance in Woldingham, England, 1978.
Uccello's Saint George and the Dragon, c. 1470; an elephant hawk moth (the metaphorical Maiden).
St. George and the Dragon: Alternate View. Nocturnal sparing for the awaiting maiden (Deilephila elpenor) in the process of hatching, the Dragon competing with the bridle tulle of St George, still from a performance in Woldingham, 1978
St. George and the Dragon: the Dragon. 1978
St. George and the Dragon: St. George adjacent to the Dragon. 1978
St. George and the Dragon: St George residing over the cage of the moth, the metaphorical Maiden. 1978
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ABOUT ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON (1978)
St. George and the Dragon originally concerned itself with an interpretation of Uccello’s Saint George and the Dragon (c. 1470). This diversified into a description of the relationship between the Maiden, the Dragon and St. George. Two situations, Uccello’s painting and the Greek myth, presented differing bonding arrangements for the Maiden.
This was first realized in chemical form, where two substances, representing the Maiden and the Dragon, when mixed with a third (St. George), would cause a reaction, catalyzed by the Maiden. The second manifestation used blue neon, and Elephant Hawk moth (Deilephila elpenor), and bridal tulle; the chemical detritus of the first iteration being packed into tubular armatures. When completed the pieces were filmed and that film, together with the pupae case of the moths, St George and the Dragon, exist as the latent machinery of a past event.
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