The Torundel concept seems to be able to create new ripples in the Hive pond for much longer than I thought possible. The latest person to ask for a ornament title is @detlev who want to write about xxx the shit consultant. If you want a name were the XXX is now please say so and I will change it, @detlev.
Some random thoughts on Torundel the Shitposter
When I have made an artwork I normally let some time pass and then I read, or look at or listen to it again. When making art the most important thing for me is distance and coldness. Looking at what I have made as if I was a stranger passing by it by a coincidence. A hard state to reach actually, but just waiting is the most foolproof method.
Already now when I look at the story of Torundel it puzzles me a quite a bit. Just how organic the creation of it was, for example. I will normally rewrite and even so the result will often be much more complex, silly and messy. Torundel the alienated, intellectual loner is not far from my comic hero Phill Philby (which you can read about here: Phill from GCHQ), but the almost epic feel of this little science fiction fairytale has much more pathos than I normally prefer. Even the silliness of shitposting, which mainly, from the short excerpts you hear in the text is latrine lip insults, does nothing (or not much) to attenuate the tragic dignity of Torundel. That is at least what I see right now. Maybe I shall let it rest for the summer and then I can return later to see what it really is.
I thought if making an illustration for each part and then make a small creative commons pdf book so people can print their own. It is an idea I have had for a long time. As Katharsisdrill I have published music, film, 3d models and drawings/painting, so why not a book. Maybe I could also make a real book later with a handprinted cover, but as I am a bit busy now I better wait and see how I fell about Torundel in a few month...
