Visions of Ecstasy
Ecstasy : Ekstasis, a word that in Greek indicated a state of mental illness and dissociation.
— Ioan Petru Culianu
Compiled, edited and published on the occasion of the Bound Art Book Fair 2025, Visions of Ecstasy is a collaborative visual essay, a codex of original and tertiary source imagery, exploring the relationships between the peak experiences of sex, drug highs, religious mania, collective hysteria and death — whirling around the thematic cores of the book fair itself: altered states, congregation — plus extraneous buzzwords.
Chopped, degraded, disinterred and deranged by designer Adam Griffiths and editor Jonny Walsh, the work is a thought-provoking descent into the absolution of the soul and a satire on prominent strands of arts publishing today.
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Visions of Ecstasy
Visions of Ecstasy
Ecstasy : Ekstasis, a word that in Greek indicated a state of mental illness and dissociation.
— Ioan Petru Culianu
Compiled, edited and published on the occasion of the Bound Art Book Fair 2025, Visions of Ecstasy is a collaborative visual essay, a codex of original and tertiary source imagery, exploring the relationships between the peak experiences of sex, drug highs, religious mania, collective hysteria and death — whirling around the thematic cores of the book fair itself: altered states, congregation — plus extraneous buzzwords.
Chopped, degraded, disinterred and deranged by designer Adam Griffiths and editor Jonny Walsh, the work is a thought-provoking descent into the absolution of the soul and a satire on prominent strands of arts publishing today.
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Ecstasy : Ekstasis, a word that in Greek indicated a state of mental illness and dissociation.
— Ioan Petru Culianu
Compiled, edited and published on the occasion of the Bound Art Book Fair 2025, Visions of Ecstasy is a collaborative visual essay, a codex of original and tertiary source imagery, exploring the relationships between the peak experiences of sex, drug highs, religious mania, collective hysteria and death — whirling around the thematic cores of the book fair itself: altered states, congregation — plus extraneous buzzwords.
Chopped, degraded, disinterred and deranged by designer Adam Griffiths and editor Jonny Walsh, the work is a thought-provoking descent into the absolution of the soul and a satire on prominent strands of arts publishing today.
