Cambria: A Monologue
Off the California coast, sits a small town split by the Pacific Coast Highway and in this town actually stood a salmon colored Victorian home where a not so young couple first learned how to trust.
This was my second marriage. I was in my forties with a divorce under my belt, a job I hated, and then this woman comes into my life making games of my fears. She came from a world I had never known, one that wasn’t so cruel and dangerous.
This is just the start of the galactic event known as The BreakThrough, an event that could erase human existence.
He’s come to destroy the world.
We beat him to it.
Dystopia is a word that gets thrown around a lot but what do you call a world where the future has been stripped of its meaning? Where the petty greeds of humanity eclipse survival? Where corporations have data-mined the human heart… and no one can see beyond the latest distraction… and human history culminates in silent surrender?
You’d call that the world of Little Mike. It only sounds like the world where you live.
On a beautiful, spring afternoon, a broken man stands at his wife’s funeral and hears the words, “Heaven Enough.”
Thus begins a poem about longing, about wishing for something more.
“What would it be like if I had heaven enough?” it reads.
What is a work of art? Is it a painting? Or a sculpture? Or a life?
Work of Art takes place in a world where artists are just as disposable as art. This is our world. Art holds value because it is so foreign to everyday life, and so are artists.
Andy Hollis is no artist; he’s just a guy trying to find his way through life. Once his path crosses with the enigmatic artiste, Tom, finding his way won’t be possible until he begins to accept the absurdity of art, the confusion of love, and the frightening chaos that is life.
Work of Art looks at our place in a world that doesn’t understand art even when, sometimes, a work of art is exactly what we need in order to understand ourselves.