Totem Art Series

Welcome to the Totem Art Series showcase.

A meta-realist/meta-conceptual art project by Christian Joore.

A few selected works from the series, accompanied by background information and fragments of fictional storytelling. Enjoy.

The Visitor It was the winter of 1892, and the county was silent as snow lay thick across the fields. William sat alone in the parlour, beside an oil lamp, flipping through a box of tintypes on...

21 January, 2026

The Grace of Gate-Room #5 Ethan Recalls: Tom decided to use Gate-Room #5 for the test. We’ve always had good luck with that space. However, for the test to be successful, it was really about the accessories....

20 December, 2025

Art is like a machine. The artist operates the machine through symbolic language, encoding emotional experiences into visual, auditory, or tactile forms. During this process, art becomes a mirror to the mind's complexities, driving individuals to reflect...

04 August, 2024

Pause for Reflection The number 11 has a special meaning in the Totem Series: blending mathematical significance and what it represents visually. The number's shape acts as a symbolic puzzle, where the two ones and the space...

11 July, 2024

In Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a mysterious black monolith appears at key points in the story. Although its true nature and purpose are left open to interpretation, it is portrayed as profoundly influencing humanity.  In...

07 July, 2024

A CREATIVE FICTION: Early 1980s: A dot matrix printer in a university laboratory begins to operate spontaneously, producing an unusual printout. The printout features a series of familiar symbols which eventually combine to reveal an image of...

16 June, 2024

Totemality is based on Plato’s ‘analogy of the sun’, where Plato tries to demonstrate ‘higher truth’ using sunlight as an analogy. The sun, light, how we see and know objects, are meant as a pointer...

16 November, 2023

The Totem visits the Hare, with warm greetings and a warning. All ears, Hare listens well to what the Totem does tell. “The clock is a trap dear friend; time is best left overhead the...

05 November, 2023

The ‘fourth wall’, known in film & cinema, is the conceptual barrier separating the fictional world from the real world. The fourth wall 'breaks' when an actor looks directly into the camera, drawing attention to...

07 October, 2023

Art is more than just a visual medium; it is a conduit for ideas to affect emotions. It is also a way to read the world to expand comprehension within human experience. And so artists...

18 September, 2023

These past few years have proved to be a resurgence of my creativity. To which I attribute it to some time off from work in early 2020. During that time, I was given a pause...

07 September, 2023

What part of the mountain can you take into your hand and claim it's a mountain? This rock, this snow, this grass, this bird, this insect? Does the morning light reveal the mountain?Does the cloud touch...

04 September, 2023