David Burns Smith

"Every person needs some sense of meaning about the future. We are driven by fear and curiosity to forecast events that may shape our future. Throughout history many complex systems of astrology, mathematics and mythology have been appropriated by the opportunistic to placate the fearful. Compelled by this premise, my work is a dissection and categorization of these precognitive mechanisms and their many parts."

This current body of work by David Burns Smith details mythical symbolism linked with the Mayan ritual calendar and the projected subsequent end of time on December 21, 2012.

Xen (zen) pref. 1. strange; foreign; different: as in xenophobe or xenophile

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