The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity

The Fanatical Pursuit of PurityThe Fanatical Pursuit of Purity is a Gesamtkunstwerk or attempt at a total art work in the Wagnerian tradition. It prefigures a puppet stage or toy theatre within which the lead character or marionette, Phosphorous Cool, has his circumference. Into this world other dolls Mastodon Helix, Heathcote Dervish and Warlock Splendour Thomas nimbly trip and spin. All of this finds itself punctuated by a third dimension or alternative space. It proves to be the

The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity is a Gesamtkunstwerk or attempt at a total art-work in the Wagnerian tradition. It prefigures a puppet-stage or toy-theatre within which the lead character or marionette, Phosphorous Cool, has his circumference. Into this world other dolls - Mastodon Helix, Heathcote Dervish and Warlock Splendour Thomas - nimbly trip and spin. All of this finds itself punctuated by a third dimension or alternative space. It proves to be the unconscious or dream-space inhabited by these exercises in a macabre pantomime. This rival or extending narrative brings back our wooden figurines as part of an alternative Victoriana. It deals with Stephen KnightÕs analysis of Jack the Ripper and a variant on Mary ShelleyÕs Frankenstein - even James WhaleÕs film starring Boris Karloff. Mr Bowden believes in the creation of a separate world as artÕs real purpose. It goes without saying that the result is Ôpolitically incorrect!Õ.