Art, Symbol & Imagination
Once Again to Earth
A pale figure bends towards the ground beneath larger faces and clustered bodies. Dark hatching makes the surrounding forms feel both distant and pressing close. The printed caption returns the image to earth within Spare’s narrative of Aaos, desire and recurring embodiment.
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Austin Osman Spare. "Once Again to Earth" [editorial title]. In The Focus of Life, Austin Osman Spare. Undated illustrated digital transcription of Austin Osman Spare’s 1921 text, The Focus of Life: The Mutterings of Aaos; three aphorisms and fourteen illustrations. Historical publisher preliminaries and the separate editorial introduction are not included. Supplied custom author cover., undated edition. Source scan leaf 15. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0372-0015
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Austin Osman Spare. Once Again to Earth. The Focus of Life. Scan leaf 15. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0372-0015