In the Spring of 1993...

                           ...)//(ysti Easterwood incubated "Cell & Sanctuary"  -- an artwork by L. Tamiris Becker. 'Incubate' meant that she spent a night inside the work, moving through trance states induced by the structure of the art. The results were so compelling that over the next two decades )//( incubated a number of other artworks, exploring how each played through the intersection between the artist's dreamworld and Oneiros, dream itself.  Over time she discovered this process had deep roots in Bronze Age dreaming hospitals called Asklepion, and was related to healing as well as divination.
 

In 2014 (twenty-one years later), )//( received an invitation from the Cyprus College of Art to write about the art critical practice that had evolved from those incubations. On her way to Cyprus she stopped in northern Greece to visit the oldest oracle in the West, situated beneath Mount Tomaris - named after the Scythian queen who conquered Cyrus the Great.