# the house of asterion status: conceptual example scenario: you are asterion the friendly minotaur sweating running leaping and falling at high speeds through an infinite voxel labyrinth based on the etchings of giovanni battista piranesi - exploring forbidden lands while uttering loud often happy bull-like roars which echo off the sublimely cavernous ruin walls brings to mind the work of thierry urbain > giger was born in 1940 in the small swiss town of chur an "unbearable" place of "high mountains... and pretty bourgeois attitudes". growing up there ey had nightmares in ir parents house and would imagine "gigantic bottomless shafts bathing in a pale yellow light". in ir necronomicon ey writes that "on the walls steep and treacherous wooden stairways without bannisters led down into the yawning abyss" and the cellar in the house gave rise to the image of "a monstrous labyrinth where all kinds of dangers lay in wait for me" > ~ shadowplay zine at home with giger // republic of bob