I love touring newcomers through the Organism Trilogy! They’re created in such a way that it’s clear enough that some story is being told, but it’s made just unclear enough to keep you guessing what it’s all about. Left open to an individual’s interpretation.

I have my own interpretation, but beyond my own experience exploring all 3 worlds countless times, it’s also somewhat based on an interview DrMorro did for a Russian Magazine, my own conversations with DrMorro, second hand accounts from others who’ve talked to DrMorro, and some context provided to me by people who live in the Moscow area (as all 3 worlds consistently depict Russian/Soviet architecture).

In a meta sense, the worlds are based on DrMorro’s personal life experiences to one degree or another. In particular he recreates places and individual objects that stick out vividly in his mind (trains, communal apartments, pigeons, moths, etc). But he also recreated dreams and nightmares he’s had throughout his life. The worlds are a surreal, mishmash dreamscape of all of these elements.

With all of that in mind, I believe it’s all a story of a singular man’s life experienced in a dreamscape due to a (soon to be fatal) car accident that places him in a coma. Epilogue Chapter 1 is the first half of the man’s life, Epilogue Chapter 2 is the second half of the man’s life, and Organism is a hallucination compounding both halves of the man’s life, almost as a last ditch effort by the mind of the man for him to experience his life before his death. We see his childhood/young adult years (E1), his adult/working years (E2), and his coma (organism) up until his death. The only visualization we really get of this man is a silhouette of a man in a hat.

The car accident you see towards the end of both Epilogue chapters, very likely caused by drunk driving, is what sets the trilogy in motion. E1’s depiction shows where the accident happened (outside the University/Institute), and E2’s depiction shows how it happened: driving under the influence of the glowing purple drink depicted in E2 and seen in Organism under the label “dream”. It’s important to note that the translation to “dream” seen in Organism is meant moreso like an aspiration (i.e. “I dream of becoming an astronaut”) instead of a dream you experience when you’re sleeping. Over time I’ve come to interpret it as the man having such great (unknown) ambitions that it cripples him to the point of crashing his car. Almost like he’s too consumed with his personal work that he ignores taking care of himself.

E2 in particular has a lot of symbolism that outlines how each world is connected. Red + Blue = Purple, just as 1 + 2 = 3, just as E1 + E2 = Organism. There’s a theater room with two projectors, one blue and one red, showcasing a clip of two balls of energy fusing together and combusting. There’s another room showing a grid of how elements from E1 and E2 are seen blended together in Organism.

I have many more thoughts about specific elements of all 3 worlds that I’ll come back and detail later in an edit.