Portraits II - John Gardiner - Bog

1984! George Orwell's bleak vision portrayed in his famous novel titled 1984, and the world he envisioned therein, is dissolved through the power of comedy. Portraits lays down an imaginative mosaic of the time demonstrating through the creative imagination of the dramatis personae the human spirit remains triumphant. Pathways to romantic enlightenment for the romantic couples, their cross-play and tensions, evolve through meditations-in-form: Architecture, Music, Physics, Dance and the Photograph. Portraits is a meditation through comedy on the timeless experience of men and women falling in love, drawing parallels with the comedic creations of previous eras, referencing the spirit of Much Ado About Nothing and George Meredith's famous opening lines from his novel The Egoist in particular. Portraits is staged and photographed on the page and the Comic Muse invoked by George Meredith overshadows the reader. Portraits Volume Two begins with the tapestry of winter, the season shadowing the psyches of the dramatis personae. Spring arrives and transformations begin, metamorphosing into the full blaze of summer: relationships become as vividly realized as the natural world does with sunlight. Comedy attains a fresh luminosity and tensions are released, with romance proven to be the most effective and sustainable antidote against the infection of an existential world.