Truth Crawling Back to Her Well

On naked Truth, art, recurring symbols, and proximate points on the historical helix

There was a period in history when the world found itself caught in paradox and shrank by expansion. This era witnessed a surge in globalisation and rapid technological advancements, such as the widespread adoption of revolutionary communication technologies that altered the way people connected, travelled, and traded. Society changed under growing urbanisation, shifting gender roles, the rise of consumerism, increasing nationalistic and populist sentiments, as well as geopolitical conflicts, tensions, and shifting power dynamics. Simultaneously, significant advancements in media technology made capturing and sharing everyday life, travel, and social documentary more accessible to the masses. This led to an increased interest in these subjects and gave birth to new forms of mass media, which irreversibly transformed the way information was consumed.

But the key aspect of this epoch is not merely that the world changed, but rather the consequences of those changes, which themselves had not yet happened. Instead, there was an anticipation of something even bigger, a widespread feeling that the old order was crumbling, but the shape of the new was yet to be determined.

The time period I am referring to is none other than the 1890s, as you might have guessed.

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