Joseph Matheny's Art is War Talks

Xen: The Zen of the Other is a work that follows one man as he attempts to find his way through the jumble of modernity that envelopes us all and threatens to strangle us in its “Tentacles Longer Than Night.”

https://digital.panicmachine.com/album/xen-the-zen-of-the-other

Cast into a world where the liminal overlaps with the world of paranormal /philosophical speculations, Ezra Buckley struggles to keep his head above water long enough to pluck a jewel of wisdom from the crown of a forest spirit.

In a world devoid of rites of passage, Ezra finds himself on his own as he is confronted with the very real prospect of having a life-changing, Liminal experience in the woods of Big Sur, if he can survive it.

Is it even real?

Is it the legendary Watchers of Big Sur phenomena or something else?

Xen is a work that confronts the questions of identity, modernity, life, the other, and the place for rites of passage in the modern world.

This audio-play version of Xen includes a fully hyperlinked ebook for reference use.

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released October 29, 2021

Xen: The Zen of the Other

Written by Ezra Buckley. You’ll have to decide for yourself if that’s a real name or not.- thepsychopath.org

Background information by Cameron Whiteside, if that indeed is his real name.- whereiscameron.wtf

Produced by P. Emerson Williams- pemersonwilliams.wordpress.com

The voice of Joseph Matheny performed by himself- josephmatheny.com

The voice of Ezra Buckley performed by Chris Gabriel aka memeanalysis- memeanalysis.com

The voice of Ralph performed by P. Emerson Williams

The voice of Tiamat performed by Anna "Maiya" Young- www.godmonsters.com

The voice of Racoon 1 performed by Iskandar Sakut abn Mayu (aka Eian Orange of Z(enseider)Z)- eianorange.zenseiderz.org

The voice of Racoon 2 by performed Deb Petrochko - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(mythology)

The voice of the waitperson performed Missy G - afieldofred.wordpress.com

The poems of Ezra Buckley read by Joseph Matheny

Xen: The Zen of the Other- Copyright 2021 Joseph Matheny

All Rights Reserved

Artist and writer, Joseph Matheny presents Statio Numero the third installment of what is ostensibly a trilogy titled, The Liminal Cycle. 

The Liminal Cycle is comprised of

Part One- Liminal by Cameron Whiteside,

Part Two- Xen: The Zen of the Other by Ezra Buckley, and

Statio Numero, presented by Joseph Matheny.

We will examine not only the method but the result of creating characters that actually live and have agency and the responsibility of the creator after those characters have outlived their usefulness to the project.