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multidisciplinary artist · one half of billionlightyearland
A screenfold book: it unfolds sideways. Scroll, swipe, or use the arrows.A screenfold book, lying open flat: read down.
One half of billionlightyearland, with bownz.
A multidisciplinary artist: visual art, video art, music, sculpture, and whatever else the idea turns out to need.
Deeply into Mesoamerican archaeology, the Maya above all, which is why this page is a book that unfolds sideways instead of a page that scrolls down.
Painting, drawing and image-making, on whatever surface will take it.
To be painted: works go on this leaf when skhul chooses them.
Video art: moving image made as art in its own right, not as an advert for something else.
The band's videos are all on the wall of TVs.
To be painted: skhul's own video works, listed here when he picks them.
Half of the music of billionlightyearland, made with bownz.
Hear it on the band's boombox, or on SoundCloud.
Sculpture: things with weight, that take up the room instead of hanging in it.
To be painted: photographs of the pieces go here.
Maya scribes wrote books as long folded strips of bark paper coated in lime plaster, painted mostly in black and red and read panel by panel. Only four are known to survive.
The numbers on this page are bar-and-dot numerals: a dot is one, a bar is five, a shell is zero. Try it on the leaf numbers.
The date on the stela is the Long Count, which counts days from a starting point in August 3114 BC.
The glyph blocks and patterns here are drawn for this site, inspired by Maya writing, not copied from any real inscription.
The Bureau files this page under the Long Count, a calendar that did not end in 2012 no matter what you were told. It turned over to a new bak'tun and carried on, which the Bureau regards as the correct response to most things.