Fifth Mutation issue 1: The Fourth Mutation
By Vanessa Cone
A fractal Ouroboros coiling back to ancient times, through the First Mutation and beyond, a double helix formation spiralling out from the Big Bang, a manifestation of the Third Mutation, revelations and speculations about future Mutations, the creations and deviations of deviant creatures entwined through the manifesto of a clothing label based on a collection of domesticated thoughts and nightmares tattooed on the remains of a dead tree, captive dreams and psychic scenes of the Datura Children, the beautiful and doomed ones, staring out upon the world in suspended animation awaiting the gentle caress of the human eye, the animal animation, the artificial insemination of dead thoughts, waiting for the mad ecstatic moment of existence, a moment when they can dance and shout and glow in the confusion of existence, beyond the edges of the dead tree, a self-facilitating constellation of creative beings manifesting symbiotically, each creature offering their own genius in exchange for whatever genius they lack, a growing organism fueled by its own entropy, art feeding art, art about art, an eyeball looking at itself, distracted by the sound of its eardrums, thinking about its own thoughts, writing about what it’s writing about, zeroing in on the truth behind everything, a zero, nothing, a tangled knot with a loop at the end, a one above a zero above a rusted human meat tree, a stick figure suspended from an exclamation point, a Living Comic Book made from the nightmares of a dead tree, the merging of dream and reality, hallucinations and information, the DMT of its last breath, a tribe formed from the Datura-induced visions of the insane laughing scarecrow who dances moonstruck at the annihilating edge of the existence, tie the knot and kick away the chair to laugh at the sun forever.
The Big Bang continues . . .
