Deconstructing Mythologies is continuing this current body of work, Phillip Spinks,
builds from the Darwin's Predicament methodology by using earlier ideas in new ways. With
some of his previous work, Phillip incorporates text; both poetry and prose, to help convey
the feelings he strove to obtain with the paintings. These words offer a direction to help
both the viewer and the artist interpret the mood of the paintings
With the Mythologies series, Phillip continues constructing side stories to various
Greek mythological entities. These tales are glimpses to other courses that the realm may
have taken. These paths, created by the entities, all lead to the downfall of the mythological
beings. Their ruin should not be taken as a negative, because without it, Mankind would not
have been able to evolve. Man's evolution flows from the need to interpret the unknown, by
creating a series of deities that controlled their world to where he is today. The downfall
is actually a construct by the deities in order to perpetuate the growth of Man. This is a
return to Darwin's Predicament in that it is both a creation and evolution of ideas.
The texts themselves are a work in progress. Phillip is incorporating them into a series
of short stories, poems and essays which will be published and disseminated into the World
Wide Web. By doing so, he hopes to create a new evolution for Greek mythology which has
been reinterpreted numerous times since their genesis. With this evolution, Phillip is
striving to build the framework for the reader/viewer to question the concepts which history
now holds steadfast.