Tendrils writhing out from the earth unfurl into half-suggested forms. As dusk fades, the pursed eyelids of sleeping giants flutter open in the glint of moonlight. ‘Dreamers Gate’ is a ballad sung in slathered cement and rusted wire, cut short by slugshots at the final stanza. Sneaksmen hold up a hotel over the road, leaving a trapper for dead.
The RTAngelocene has been beckoned through an aeonic portal off the M23. 60 km north of Canberra/Kanberri, a 7-metre high proscenium of leaping arches and spindled ornament emerges from an empty lot, opposite The Bushranger Inn. Begun by Phantastes in 1993, ‘Dreamers Gate’ was intended as a devotion to the artist's father, and to the town itself. On the brink of the millennium, Phantastes received a ‘stop work’ order from the local council, halting its completion. For ten years, the ruins have awaited demolition, haunting the bypass.
In the forgotten prologue to a heathen prayer, we adore those Janus-headed charleys lingering about the threshold. “Oh to caress the Stoney cheek of a wayside guardian, fixed by a gorgon’s stare! To bundle clootie rags through the boney recess of your clavicle! To string up prayers between your ruined vaults!”
‘III: Templon Angelicka’, takes place at ‘Dreamers Gate’, a monumental sculpture by Tony Phantastes in the town of Collector/Colegdah, NSW, Australia. Featuring work by Harry de Vries, Seamus Heidenreich, Jasper Devitt, Gwyneth Grace Miller, and Grace Blake.
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Ṛta
Sanskrit ऋत: /ɹ̩tam/;
In Vedic religion, Ṛta refers to the principle of natural order which regulates and coordinates the operation of the universe and everything within it.
[1][note 1]; It is the last surviving word in any Indo-European language to preserve the etymological root definition of art.
RTA
UK: /ˌɑː.tiːˈeɪ/ US: /ˌɑːr.tiːˈeɪ/
abbreviation for
-Road Traffic Accident: Used especially by police forces, medical staff, insurance companies, etc.
-Real Time Attack: A genre of video game speed-run.
-Returned to Australia: Officially used by the Australian Defence Force in reference to demobilised troops.
-Ready to Assemble: A term for flatpacked furniture requiring DIY construction.