Artistic Intention (the backward-winding path)

Statement of Intent

“As within, so without....”(Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956)

The nature of my artistic practice centres around the visualisation of that pervading “otherness” which is “hidden from legerdemain view.” Ostensibly-this is  known as the Occult. This artistic raison-d’etre manifests itself in the reification of shamanic visions and the documentation of their subjective and magical  essence for the benefit of the tribe.

This arbitrary and largely self-taught enquiry into the utilizition of one’s noumenon is manifested “as now’ through the channelling of a magical current set in place by the Western and Eastern traditions of Gnostiscism and Esoteriscim. This in turn is elucidated by the “does not matter-need not be” edict associated with a considerably rare strain of chaos magic, the conduitation of Pan-Theurgism and reification and (re)union with the Sumerian tradition.

 The central tenant of my practice stems from the en-sorcelling aesthetic intention of documenting, invoking, evoking and convoking a magically charged distillation of the “prima materia”or “blackening” phase of Alchemy(the Nigredo). The astral arena for this exploration is guided by the “Qllipoth”,the nightside of Eden, a mirrored reverse of the “Tree of Life,” known in jewish Gnosticism as the “Qabbala.”

The  risen form of my aesthetic is underpinned by the intention of an underlying premonitic sense of the immediate, grounded in the “universal subjective” of a life based on reason (endamonism) and an all-encompassing enquiring interest into the liminal.

It is my artistic intention to seek to reify this gathering of “magical soliloquoy’s” into a multi-disciplinary practice which encompasses draughtmanship, performance, the audio-visual and the written word. This nascent, tireless investigation into the esoteric is an aesthetic  exploration of the light of truth,embodied by the goddess “Maat,”Goddess of truth, even though there is no “absolute truth.”

Intrinsically ,it is is that which manifests itself on the inner-space planes of the (un)conscious  mind, ”the storehouse of memories,with an ever-open door?”(the book of pleasure 1913,aos) The entire notion of my artistic ethos has the intention of being  harnessed by a “lucid symbolism” and persistence of vision which is embodied by an affiliation to all entities (both flesh and spirit)who traffic within the spaces “in-between.”

My aesthetic’s original impulse centres around the magical current(when charged),efflorated by late nineteenth and early-to mid twentieth century occult paragon and aesthete Austin Osman Spare. In contemporary art terms this aesthetic current can be interconnected to likeminded familiar affilliations. Fulgaratively this denouement is classified by the current coterie of artists affiliated to London purveyors of Fine Press Esoterica(since 1992) Fulgur Limited.

Curated and espoused by Robert Ansell and Gavin Semple, Fulgur has succeded (for the past twenty year) in gathering and spearheading a veritable cornucopic  global community of artists who work within the mainframe of a particular iconography. This esotericism is  unconfined by figurative,occult-laden symbologies media or geography and was recently manifested in the I:mage exhibition at London’s Store Street Gallery(Mai 2013).

The arte of Austrailian artist Oryelle Defenstrate-Bascule, whose relentless dexterity in all matters of artistic magical expression has ignited and sustained a  lasting expression  within the context of my own “artistic practice” has become a lasting benchmark of longevity and harmony. His practice and unrelenting exploration of his own “Surreality,” has greatly inspired me and elucidated my own perception of what can be achieved by unification for “arte’s sake for the chance of division”(Orryelle Defenstrate-Bascule).