The starting point of this website in technical terms is my reconstruction of the Pre-Cambrian Shields of the Earth ( see: Shield Re-assembly ). This is covered in 'About This Site'. In this section, I would like to explain what led to that starting point and why I reconstructed these shields in this way in the first place.

First of all, to cut a long story short and to give you a quick idea, I had become disillusioned with my career at the time and I decided that I needed to take a long, distanced look at where my work had been going. I took all the work I had made as an artist, personal and commercial, over the previous ten years and, as alot of it involved travel and other cultures, I looked at all of the places on the globe that my work pertained to. As my work, from a fictional angle, had increasingly centered on the Ring Of Fire ( the belt of earthquake and volcanic activity around the Pacific ), I found that the pattern of my general artistic activity matched the general pattern of earthquake and volcanic activity, which fall into fields I had not considered before. I decided that Plate-Tectonics was something that I should look into.
Following is a more detailed breakdown of the correlation between my personal and commercial work, and the development of the concept of The Seventh Earth.

The key elements are;

My first serious attempt at making a film.

The distribution of interior design and specialist paintwork carried out by myself and 'Triskill Design'.

Music videos and visual imagery developed via this work for the emerging Irish electronic music scene, centering around 'D1 Recordings'.

The influence of Detroit electronic music on that emerging Irish scene and the development, on the basis of those videos, of the 'White Monkey' scripts by myself as Metal Dragon.

The 'White Monkey' scripts, combined with the influence of 'Underground Resistance' and 'Drexciya', ultimately led to 'The Seventh Earth'.

However, I don't want it to seem like I am writing this section simply to promote the work of myself and some of my friends and our heroes. I feel this section is necessary to give some history to, and to illustrate what I feel is a logical progression towards, a radical concept which may appear otherwise to have sprung from nowhere ( something which so far has often given people the impression of it as a clever exercise in something else ). I also find the nature of this path fascinating as, at every point, I always followed the direction that my work naturally suggested, and only in artistic terms. Yet, it appears to be a ten year path that has spanned many disciplines, some not normally related, to result in a concept which does not fall into any of them, and yet each of them is essential in its emergence. I also didn't fully understand the drive of what I was doing as none of it seemed to 'click' in terms of financial security or broader artistic recognition. I'm tempted to think of the path as a large case of synchronicity, but seeing as I haven't read Jung yet, I should hold off on that statement.

Having said all that, I should re-iterate that this site ( as is mentioned repeatedly throughout it ) is a work in progress which may never be completed or will ultimately arrive at a dead end. But, for the moment, I'm just continuing to do what I always did and am going with what my work suggests, which is why this website now exists.

I hope you find the following history interesting, thanks for reading.

Alan Lambert

KANAZAWA, Japan

April 9 2006