Dog Star Man: Part II
A Pilgrimage, ft. <PERSON> (5/63)
While the woodsman climbs his personal mountain, his offspring is born, the child that will continue to provide wood and climb a mountain when he is good and ready to, the son that is an instrumental part towards the woodsman's neverending climb. 351
Layers of the first part repeat and overlay over the crying newborn, the snowflakes, abstract imagery, and the father that were commonly seen in the previous two parts that suggest a dual purpose, one to prepare the son for the chaos that will consume his life the second he grows up and gains a shred of independence, the admirable attempt to refine and categorize the senseless mush of the world into feasible constructs that an infant will try to learn and, if need be, re-learn in order to realize the harshness of the world outside his mother's watchful eye, and two to give us a glimpse of what the climber's thoughts are, what the father aims to keep alive and the coalescence of past, present, and potential future for both man and child appearing in fractured layers. The smallness of the baby's limited yet infinite perspective, the vastness of the man's endless yet familiar surroundings, all unite by the human condition, to survive and repeat the images of what they've seen and what they will see. The sight of a single snowflake leaves a tremendous influence towards a child blissfully unaware of how exponential those snowflakes will be as he ages. 352