Gattius Emprero

There was this photo that I had taken a while back that has frequently been popping up on the back of my mind. When I was visiting New Jersey in June 16th of 2007 there was an old abandoned war-training building alongside the beach near the Atlantic Coast. Fort Hancock was the name of the area. The scene was like a decrepit concrete playground of squared off building frames and rooms all attached underneath the multi-leveled roofs. These rough concrete structures stretched well off along the side of the sandy and brush covered shore. Through the rooms were a strange feeling and historic airborne stickiness attached .

Many generations had been there able to visit since it’s closing, I think it was used for WWII though I’ll have to check back on that(Okay, checked it out.. yeah, WWII training amongst several other uses.) Graffiti of all lovely kinds were scattered throughout but in the end towards the farthest right there was a small room with an old rusted chair in the corner and the window was barred shut.

The walls were completely skinned with carvings of the initials and messages of previous visitors in a tone of subtle black and white that was amazing to the eye/s.

What I had done to the first image was the mirror effect where you select a portion and result in what may be considered a kaleidoscopic alteration. I've been using this effect for quite a while due to interesting results almost like a mixture of the Rorschach ink blot effect and ancient symbols.

After I mirrored the photo, initially right after these files were onto the computer, I was awed with how many depictions came flooding out of this image. Keeping the ‘jet was here’ scribing seemed a bit humorous to me at first intention and helped round out what is currently visible as a result. ‘Gattius Emprero’ (Cat Emperor) is the title, by the way. I thought I’d share it to see what any others might find in the image.

Obviously, because of the title, what I see is an Egyptian styled scribing with a Cat (Pineal Gland) emperor, arms up, neck shield and round sun template around it's neck base on it's thrown.

This portion of the photo really stuck out to me as well, but I'll let the interpretation open to the viewer.