Created in response to Edward Munch’s creation story, Alfa og Omega 1908-09
Edvard Munch's Alpha and Omega folder is a collection of graphics that illustrate a personal and bizarre version of a creation story. The folder consists of 18 main images, two introductory vignettes, a title page and an illustrated table of contents printed as lithographs. In addition, there is a prose poem that accompanies the pictures.
The story is about the first two people on a desert island - Alpha and Omega. They live in harmony until a large cloud casts a shadow over the island - Alfa discovers Omega lying with a huge snake on top of her, staring into its eyes. Alpha kills the snake in anger and jealousy, but this does not stop Omega. She initiates erotic relationships with all the island's animals, until she gets bored and flees on the back of a fallow deer.
Alfa thinks he is left alone - but one day Omega's children come to him. A new family has grown up on the island, and they call him their father. There are little pigs, snakes, monkeys, predators and other human bastards. Alpha despairs: “He ran along the Sea; The sky and the sea were stained with blood; he heard screams in the air and held his ears; The earth, the sky, and the sea trembled, and he felt great anxiety. ”
When Omega returns one day, Alfa kills her. As he sits and watches her body, he is attacked from behind by all her children and the island's animals that tear him to death.
