David Van Gough’s RISE: MAN/SON AND THE HAUNTING OF THE AMERICAN MADONNA
From Aleister Crowley to Charles Manson, Liverpool to L.A., MAN/SON explores an artistic evocation of America’s occult underbelly.
published by Darq Matter Publishing, 2013
“Van Gough takes a deep, painterly approach to the Manson saga as he explores the occult undercurrents,both historical and speculative.” – Lisa Derrick, Cartwheel
From Van Gough’s Artist’s Statement:
“In my journey, there have been threads that go beyond mere happenstance, symbols and ciphers that are window dressing for something profound and dark beneath. In commencing then with the new series, utilizing the tragic muse and slain Madonna figure of Sharon Tate as a symbol for an endpoint, there was a need to relate and process that which is beyond understanding. Peter Levenda’s words in Sinister Forces Book III sum it up for me, ‘[F]or the occultist-there is truly “no such thing as coincidence,” or more accurately, that coincidence is a clue that deeper connections exist between observable phenomena, that another force of nature is at work that we don’t understand.’ The MAN/SON series seeks to make sense of those fatal events of 1969, and what I have come to term as sinister architecture.”
