Arcadia Revisited

The geographical location that became known as Arcadia was the interior hinterland of Ancient Greece. It was a place of hunters, warriors, rude habitation and wild beasts. In time, Arcadia became the romantic ideal of rustic living; pastoral, without the rawness of the actual landscape. The harsh contrast of glaring rock face and dark chasm, raging storm and heat-baked plain are softened into the gentle meeting place of forest and field. Brutish half-beings, sexual and violent were soon lulled into better behaviors with strains of hypnotic music. Increasingly civilized interpretations relate the primal urges of these early Arcadians to forces of the natural world's fecundity, not dangerous, merely a product of nature's way.

What is hidden within the shadows at the forest's edge finds its way into the open field and while we may be surprised at first by its unfamiliar behavior, we may soon also find ourselves seduced by strange and wonderful strains of music that echo from a forgotten place.