Marcus Whale - Ecstasy CD + Booklet

64pp perfect bound, CD-sized book, plus compact disc in cardboard sleeve, plus a sticker, all encased in a resealable plastic sleeve

Ecstasy (from the Greek ‘ekstasis’) means to be outside yourself, making porous the boundaries of the body and soul. It’s the pleasure that goes beyond the self, that undoes the self and draws towards the void. It’s possession, the outside that violates the border and pours inside, but it’s also excess, the inside that leaks out into the world we’re separated from. It’s the dance-floor that heaves as one. It’s the hole in you that you give up to others. It’s surrender. It’s the otherness we dissolve into. It’s 16th Century saint Teresa of Avila lovingly penetrated by an angel’s arrow. It’s her bliss-filled face in the Bernini sculpture ravished, overcome and wholly entered by love.