'The End of the World'
by Maia Lyon-Daw for The Wolf, Death and the Acorn


Shown at the Filmmuseum Cinema, Amsterdam, June 26th 2009

Shown the 29th Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, September 23rd till October 2nd 2009




In this film clip I re-enact the performance I gave on the Open Day at the Rietveld this year. The main idea behind it is a lament and a call for the reconciliation of opposites, and a search for Harmony through the striving for balance.
This is the main concept that threads all of my current work together that I presented at the Eindexamen Exhibition.

In this film clip my aim was to convey these ideas in the absolute simplest and most effective way possible through the use of universally recognisable archetypal elements.
I tried to be visually and lyrically succint and concise, which explains my choice of the old Skeeter Davis song which tells the story perfectly.
The jackdaw singing the lovesong to the scarecrow is a call for a reconciliatory balance between seemingly fundamentally conflicting elements.
The esoteric interpretation is that the scarecrow echoes the Christ on the cross, protecting the 'crop seeds' from the thieving jackdaw- in this case the outcast lunar feminine, tainted and depraved by the Christian institution. She seeks only to be nourished and overcome the scarecrow spectre, thus restoring balance, harmony and peace.
The part I act is thus that of the oppressed, forlorn, seductive personification of the archetypal feminine. The lyrics also gain an entirely new meaning with this interpretation.

At the Eindexamen Exhibition my installation outside and my vitrine presentation inside were intimately interwoven, thematically, with this film clip.
The background in the clip is the Pleiades Constellation of which the brightest star is 'Maia', a blue giant.
The role of the jackdaw is also a reference to my surname: 'Daw'.
My old family surname 'Lyon' juxtaposed with 'Daw' for me also refers to basic conflicting elements which I seek to reconcile: lion vs. crow, nobility vs. depravity, light vs. dark, etc.


'The End of the World'
by Maia Lyon-Daw for The Wolf, Death and the Acorn


Shown at the Filmmuseum Cinema, Amsterdam, June 26th 2009

Shown the 29th Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, September 23rd till October 2nd 2009




In this film clip I re-enact the performance I gave on the Open Day at the Rietveld this year. The main idea behind it is a lament and a call for the reconciliation of opposites, and a search for Harmony through the striving for balance.
This is the main concept that threads all of my current work together that I presented at the Eindexamen Exhibition.

In this film clip my aim was to convey these ideas in the absolute simplest and most effective way possible through the use of universally recognisable archetypal elements.
I tried to be visually and lyrically succint and concise, which explains my choice of the old Skeeter Davis song which tells the story perfectly.
The jackdaw singing the lovesong to the scarecrow is a call for a reconciliatory balance between seemingly fundamentally conflicting elements.
The esoteric interpretation is that the scarecrow echoes the Christ on the cross, protecting the 'crop seeds' from the thieving jackdaw- in this case the outcast lunar feminine, tainted and depraved by the Christian institution. She seeks only to be nourished and overcome the scarecrow spectre, thus restoring balance, harmony and peace.
The part I act is thus that of the oppressed, forlorn, seductive personification of the archetypal feminine. The lyrics also gain an entirely new meaning with this interpretation.

At the Eindexamen Exhibition my installation outside and my vitrine presentation inside were intimately interwoven, thematically, with this film clip.
The background in the clip is the Pleiades Constellation of which the brightest star is 'Maia', a blue giant.
The role of the jackdaw is also a reference to my surname: 'Daw'.
My old family surname 'Lyon' juxtaposed with 'Daw' for me also refers to basic conflicting elements which I seek to reconcile: lion vs. crow, nobility vs. depravity, light vs. dark, etc.