BEg2 refreshing my memory of the DeepArcher splash screen

[Neal Fultz]

That's a good/interesting interpretation. The imagery itself is more like
Rider-Smith (Golden Dawn) but the mysterious inspiration is more like Thoth
(Crowley).

Now that I think about it, Forensic Accounting is kind of an occult science
itself. Hacking too.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 12:43 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> “A splash screen comes on, in shadow-modulated 256-color daylight, no
> titles, no music. A tall figure, dressed in black, could be either sex,
> long hair pulled back with a silver clip, The Archer, has journeyed to the
> edge of a great abyss. Down the road behind, in forced perspective, recede
> the sunlit distances of the surface world, wild country, farmland, suburbs,
> expressways, misted city towers. The rest of the screen is claimed by the
> abyss—far from an absence, it is a darkness pulsing with whatever light was
> before light was invented. The Archer is poised at its edge, bow fully
> drawn, aiming steeply down into the immeasurable uncreated, waiting.
>             What can be seen of the face from behind, partly turned away,
> is attentive and unattached. A light wind is blowing in the grass and
> brush. “Looks like we cheaped out and didn’t bother to animate much,”
> Justin comments, “but look close and you can see the hair rippling too, I
> think the eyes blink once, but you have to be watching for it. We wanted
> stillness but not paralysis.”
>
> This was created by Cassidy, the maybe-not-12 (that was a quip) but
> underage (as Maxine notes in seriousness) artist for the splash screen.
>
> It reminds me of Sagittarius, but also the Fool tarot card.
>
> & Cassidy refers to an external, unknown, source of inspiration similar to
> that cited by the woman who drew - what was it, the Thoth deck?
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