PENITENZIAGITER
The pervading otherness that demonstrates itself in all I
artistically undertake is concerned with that which is occult(hidden),otherwise
known as the esoteric. For arbitrary convenience sake I call this “Thee Arte.” It’s
true nature is that which is endlessly resurging,”united for (thee) arte’s sake
for the chance of division”(orryelle defenestrate-bascule).Or as 19th
century occult milestone “Aleister Crowley” said “we are united for loves sake,
for the chance of (re)union”. My practice is an appending embodiment of my own
(un)conscious mind, a “transformation of flesh to spirit”(Carl Mcoy) if you
will? In it’s creation I harness a subjective persistence of vision and “lucid
symbolism,” that manifests itself in a multi-disciplinary approach embodying, drawing
and painting ritual performance and a desire to enter into the construction of installation
and the audio-visual.
In essence, my work has the intention of a visceral
Pan-Theurgy,the Promethean process of “stealing the fire from heaven”1.an allegory from Austin Osman Spare’s “book
of pleasure”(1913)
As a polemic I inhabit the (in-between spaces) within the
assumed stance of the esoteric renegade. As prop-agitant(employing ecstatic
elements of stoicism and asceticism) i invoke, evoke and convoke entities, not
only of the corporeal but the "myriad of familiars and elementals which partly
make up my being".(aos) Through “the Arte”, I communicate with the Astral mind,
bending(through the manipulation of the Chaosphere)and breaking the bodies and
spirits which are channelled
aesthetically into artefacts of magical import. In simple terms “the Shamanic
remit of bringing one’s visions back to the tribe.”2.Taken from artist/mage Orryelle Defenstrate-Bascule’s “mutation
parlour”www.crossroads.net/au
I have now a possible solution to the fulfilment of the
modular criteria of this stage of the Master’s Programme and it is currently underway.
My journey has begun by taking esoteric connections of an essentially lunar, arachnean
nature(spiders are great connectors although some people are afraid of them) and
have now started manipulating them into a creative magical current based on my
association with the global artistic and magical community “The Hermaphroditic
Chaorder of the Silver Dusk”.
Project:ALTAR
It is my artistic intention to create a space (in sensorium)
suitable for invocatory purposes. The altar shall use found objects of a sacred
nature and paintings and drawings created specifically for devotional purposes,
a cornucopia of the chaosphere if you like? It should be cluttered and pleasing
to the eye, a feast of the visual, would be nice to create a short video loop
to go along with it.
As well as the visual I shall create a malefic atmosphere
through the creation of a soundscape, to further attack the sensorium. The
soundtrack will use elements of drone, chant and spoken word and shall be of an
invocatory nature. The soundtrack shall be influenced by Sunn0))), Earth, Boris
and OM also the audio work of Orryelle Defenstrate-Bascule. As a mythopeic, avant-garde
production,the films of Kenneth Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle shall be
referenced. Texts utilized include Austin Osman Spare’s “Focus of Life,”his “Book
of Pleasure”and “Earth Inferno.”AOS’ current of Zos Kia Cultus is intrinsic to
the workings of the project. Of prime importance to it’s construction shall be
the graphic grimmoire’s (an alchymical bookweb) of the Tela Quadrivium by
Orryelle Defenstrate-Bascule,The Typhonian Trilogies of Kenneth Grant and also
William S. Burroughs “Cities of the Red Night” Trilogy. This should be
completed before assessment in January.
Project:The Book of XUL vel
ENDYMION
It is one of my greater desires
to create my own “graphic grimmoire,” to further clarify and elucidate my own
magical ethos and it’s relationship to my artistic practice.it would be nice to
publish this privately on recycled paper in paperback. Xul vel Endymion is my
magical name within the order, Xul being the Sumerian word for Daemon and
Endymion in Greek mythology,a shepherd who first tracked the movements of the
moon and by virtue of this was in love with her(Selene).
I’m going to take my time with
this one, want it to be arresting, exciting and vibrant utilizing all the
skills I have gathered since I set out on my artistic journey. Text’s will be
of my own creation and shall illuminate the visual(the opposite applies)....
