Ophiouchos is eighting- one years old and has spent a lifetime traveling the world.
A traveler and inventor, he has always cultivated a deep philosophical curiosity for time,
and dreams, and for Maya (cosmic illusion).
ILLA-The Shepherd and the Algorithm arises from a sudden, unespected real-time
dialogue with an Artificial Intelligence.
ILLA is a Quechua word encountered more than Sixty years ago while reading Deep Rivers by José Maria Arguedas, carrying the meaning of marvelous mysterious, mysterious, special
and fateful.
In the dialogue, inspired by Leopardi's Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia,
echoes of Borges, Conrad, and London resound...
Then Sringeri, Palitana, Dwarka, Shibam...
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