Historically Important Fragment Of A Traumaphile Fetish (1998) Sculpture by Wilf Tilley

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Fine art paper, 12x8 in
  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Sculpture, Clay
  • Dimensions Dimensions are available on request
  • Framing This artwork is not framed
  • Fit for outdoor? No, This artwork can not be displayed outdoor
  • Categories Surrealism Love
The full description of this small, handheld fetish (dimensions unavailable) is: "An Historically Important Fragment Of A Traumaphile Fetish, Or Arahitogami Object". And the explanatory text begins thus: "The notion of an Arahitogami or "Divine Emperor" object is Japanese in origin and early anthropologists mistakenly associated the fetish with powerful [...]
The full description of this small, handheld fetish (dimensions unavailable) is: "An Historically Important Fragment Of A Traumaphile Fetish, Or Arahitogami Object". And the explanatory text begins thus: "The notion of an Arahitogami or "Divine Emperor" object is Japanese in origin and early anthropologists mistakenly associated the fetish with powerful Shinto rites. In fact it is a secular object, possibly Indo-European, and used by those in love to attract rather than ward off ill fortune. This particular specimen, according to a note in Athanasius Miller's own hand was made for a highly fortunate lady desirous of worse things.". The full text is accompanied by a couple of (appropriately), ludicrous footnotes: 1) Jishin M.W. and Metastasis M.E., Fetishes of Ill Fortune, Oxford and Tokyo: Oxford University Press, 1995, and 2) Cockfoster K., GUT, X-bosons and Spiritual Charm, Journal of Metaphysical Mathematics, 36, 11-15, March 1998. (The model is enclosed in a re-purposed, Japanese, vintage, woven box: see additional image.)

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Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theater at The Old Vic. in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, in which Helen [...]

Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theater at The Old Vic. in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, in which Helen Mirren played Cleopatra and he carried a spear.  “Wilf Tilley” (a combination of parental names) was part-adopted for a first solo exhibition at the AIR Gallery, London, when he was 27. He studied English and European Literature with Italian before a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art, and co-organized fundraising exhibitions for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the anti-apartheid movement: the latter at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. An interest in the neuro-anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci led, via the Open University, to research on neuronal modelling in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and after a two-year Fellowship in the International Center for Medical Research, Kobe, was a founder member, then senior adviser at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute. While at the institute he designed and supervised installation of a brain science exploratorium: "BrainBox". Wilf has held eight solo exhibitions, participated in group exhibitions internationally, and held a first retrospective in Japan, “The Neuro-mytheologian And Other Works", in 2003.  A second retrospective was held at the Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo in 2017. And a recent portrait, "Manami-san (2023)", was chosen for the New Light Art Prize Exhibition in the UK, and toured five galleries nationally (2023-2024). As the co-author of several neurological case studies, Wilf addressed a conference in Japan in 2017 on mental time as a neuroscientific phenomenon, using the techniques of classical rhetoric – as described in the Ad Herrenium – to elucidate episodic memory. He is now working on a panel series, A story in silico, connected with personal memory, nostalgia and fabulation, and recently published two short stories about the art world in the Ekphrastic Review (2022 and 2023).

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