Beast

With Beast: The Lost Chronicles Paul Stubbs has fashioned a philosophical theological and visionary odyssey that follows W. B. Yeats' 'rough beast' as it strives to free itself from its creator and transcend him while attempting to understand its purpose in the universe. Mirrored by the syntactical shifts of Stubbs' singular prosody this elusive mythical figure traverses ancient to modern times grappling with the ideas of each age as it encounters pivotal figures-such as Darwin Mary Noah Nietzsche Kant Christ. This poetic journey across millennia forces a confrontation with evolving anthropological and metaphysical debates from early Christian imagery to modern existential crises. Ultimately the beast's narrative brought to life by Stubbs' decisive gift for image-making remains eerily contemporary with every era it inhabits blending meditations on existence sin and the search for an unobtainable truth.