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'Codex Ocularis is the Log Book of a lone Astronaut/Psychonaut/Holonaut in a holographic exploration through space and time to an extremely large planet in.
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Return to Book Page. Preview — Codex Ocularis by Ian Pyper. Codex Ocularis by Ian Pyper. Mimetic in character, it has somehow focused its gaze on the Earth and its water and has consequently created weird and Fiction. Mimetic in character, it has somehow focused its gaze on the Earth and its water and has consequently created weird and wonderful organisms in its vast internal fluid-filled centre. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. More Details Other Editions 1. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Codex Ocularis , please sign up.
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Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Codex Ocularis. The suit worn by the narrator has a large eyeball-shaped helmet, as does the robot employed by the expedition for remote sensing. The life-forms of Codex Ocularis are drawn as all curve, usually with many eyeballs at the ends of stalks or dangling nerve ganglions. Pyper often favors a looping curl shape for connecting lines, which mirrors the cursive he uses for the text.
Over time, the book pushed me to recognize eyes in even the non-eyeball images. It's sketch of the Earth started to resemble a diseased eyeball, with its two continental blotches looking more and more like some kind of glaucoma or cataracts. Pyper works in the medium of what is often called "outsider" art, due to the simplified, untutored appearance of his drawings and the meandering, self-similar structure he favors.
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The genre began with French artist Jean Dubuffet, who originally coined the term art brut to refer to art made by psychotic patients at mental institutions. While the artistic genre has shed the stigma of mental illness, and even, perhaps, become a desirable categorization as far as marketability goes, it still commonly explores themes of perception and uncertain reality, as Pyper's work does. Codex Ocularis is Pyper's first published narrative work in addition to a number of gallery shows, he has published a coloring book, Bugs of the Future Primitive [].
Codex Ocularis does work well when approached as a collection, showcasing a strong diversity of Pyper's creations, from grotesque brain-creatures to caterpillars and ribosomes made up of eyeballs that still manage to be strangely cute. Most interestingly to me, Pyper's use of a loose narrative structure positions his work somewhere at the intersection between fine art and comics.
Fans of the psychedelic grotesqueries of Jim Woodring, the disturbing biologies of Michael DeForge, or the complicated interplay of text and image in Marc Bell's work will all find much to appreciate in Pyper's illustrations. Reading Codex Ocularis put me in a very strange headspace.
One image that I kept returning to was one in which the narrator's head—or, at least, a recognizably human head—is staring wide-eyed from inside the eyeball-shaped astronaut helmet. The helmet, though, is indistinguishable from the eyeball-shaped planet of Codex Ocularis itself. The connection between the visibly depicted brain and eye of the narrator purposefully mimics the connection between the astronaut and his helmet.
The implied recursion runs through the entire book, strongly enough to suggest that the entire planet of Codex Ocularis is serving as a metaphor for Pyper's experience. In this extended metaphor, the astronaut represents a consciousness, observing of the world only the shadows projected on the inner space of the eyeball it is effectively trapped inside. And even those observations are mediated by the projections and electrical impulses of a nervous system, represented by the space suit and devices the astronaut employs.
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It can be proved using optical mathematics that it is impossible to project a three-dimensional object onto a plane through a single apeture without optical aberration. There are always barriers to an absolutely accurate representation of the world. The uncertainty that this suggests, between image and reality, "true" perception and distortion, makes up the territory on which Pyper locates his work.
Rather than a symbol of perfection, Codex Ocularis uses the eyeball as an emblem of human limitation: a disquieting reminder that the world we think we see is really a distorted miniature that we create inside ourselves. Nathaniel Forsythe is a writer of fiction and criticism. He lives in Champaign, Illinois. He is an avid reader of graphic and experimental fiction, and he was impressed by this book's deft use of eye-detic representation.
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Podcast: Pillage, Thundersnow. Original Fiction in His colouring book Bugs of the Future Primitive was released by Pelekinesis in and he has exhibited in galleries worldwide. His love of the seaside and its beaches, boats, and seagulls continues and he now lives on the south coast of England. Other Books by Ian Pyper.