About This Universe

The mythology of LUCI is built from 16 source traditions — religious texts, philosophical schools, ecological systems, and cultural practices — woven into a single syncretic narrative across 10 paintings and 613 masks.

Source Traditions

• Hebrew Bible — Torah, prophets, patriarchs, and biblical narrative
• Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism — sefirot, Ein Sof, the Tree of Life, Lurianic cosmology
• Greek & Classical Mythology — Greek and Roman mythology, classical antiquity
• Stoic & Classical Philosophy — amor fati, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius
• Existentialism & Absurdism — hauntology, phenomenology, Derrida, Camus
• Japanese Aesthetics — mono no aware, wabi-sabi, kintsugi
• Egyptian & North African — Khufu, canopic traditions, pharaonic culture
• Mesoamerican & Indigenous — Quetzalcoatl, atlatl, indigenous traditions
• Ecology & Mycology — fungal networks, rhizomes, old growth, symbiosis
• Alchemy & Transformation — chrysalis, metamorphosis, ritual rebirth
• Literary & Poetic — Keats, Derrida, Walter Benjamin, storytelling
• Cryptography & Networks — ciphers, encryption, neural networks
• Economics & Game Theory — debt, jubilee, scarcity, game theory
• Family & Ancestry — lineage, inheritance, generational memory
• Paleoanthropology — human origins, caves, fossils, deep time
• Governance & Social Order — councils, voting, collective decision-making