From Ritual to Ramons
As lateral means to a dramatic end, my early solo initiatives of What Happens When Your Mind Goes Blank?, Opæan, Pecu, and the Privatetheater trilogy defined a coherent project to provide material and direction for all subsequent collaboration. Primarily, I would lead Psychological Art Circus to create a body of theatrical work guided by three seers: Anna O., Olive Pixley, and in Illusions of Reference, the Oracle, Pythia.
After Illusions, I began to discover the conceptual framework for a three-ring circus through an exploration into troubadour turned Trinitarian Ramon Llull. It is my findings from a sustained and still-ongoing period of research that inform the visual, sonic, and systematic basis for the current work and its accompanying series of interpretative lecture performances.
W. L.
Shanghai
April 2025