Journey To The Centre Of The Memory Palace.

Journey To The Centre Of The Memory Palace is a long-term research project examining the symbolic structures of ancient history, mythology, language, and ritual landscape.
Combining themes from mytho-poetics, etymology, ecology, cosmology, and esoteric traditions, the work investigates how collective memory is transmitted through folklore, archetype, and environment.

Through the study of symbols and language systems, the project explores mythology and folk memory as frameworks for ecological awareness. By contextualising and reinterpreting these inherited traditions, the project seeks to reconnect contemporary society with a more sacred and reciprocal relationship to landscape, memory, and the living world.


Available to download on Patreon and Substack as essays in high resolution PDF format. This exploration draws upon the works of philosophers, poets, archaeologists and anthropologists, ranging from the likes of Marija Gimbutas, Mircea Eliade, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Manly P. Hall, Normandi Ellis, Merlin Stone, Linda Schele, Marshall McLuhan, Terence McKenna, Theodore Roszak, Barry Cunliffe, Rabindranath Tagore, Octavio Paz, Tim Ingold and many more.

Ventral is Golden is a Graphic Designer & Researcher exploring the intersections of visual culture, anthropology, symbology, folklore and the psyche.
His notion that “every word is an image that contains the fossil of a myth” encapsulates his interdisciplinary approach to unearthing latent connections within collage, illustration and creative writing.

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