‘Life begins on the other side of despair.’ ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Percival Alexander is an alter-ego created by an anonymous artist and writer who found themselves feeling at odds with humanity’s absurd notion of progress, and has most recently become interested in Camus’ take on the myth of Sisyphus in relation to this (more of their story can be read here).
Percival embodies an exploration into what they deem to be modernity’s recurrrent human condition: despair, but ultimately how creativity forms a means of catharsis, reconnection and reflection, and in turn an immeasurably transformative quality which somehow makes it all bearable, occasionally comical.
From various experiments, sketches and paintings to writing blogs, poems, short stories, a novel and a book of poetry; drawing upon myriad sources of inspiration – be it DIY music, jazz musicians, Jung, Eastern philosophy, ancient Chinese painters, numerous poets and the existentialists in particular – Percival Alexander endeavours to plunge the depths of their own melancholy via the imagining of frontiers born from a ‘confrontation with the absurd’.
truth is vibe.
March 2024
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