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  1. Saint Hilaire, eveque, 1630s

    etching 216 x 125 mm - Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
    Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZ

    api.digitalnz.org/records/1839

    #Saints #Vestments #Miters #Prayers #Faith #Worship #Altars #Christianity #ReligiousArt #Bishops #Mannerist #Print #Etching #Museums

  2. Saint Hilaire, eveque, 1630s

    etching 216 x 125 mm - Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
    Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZ

    api.digitalnz.org/records/1839

    #Saints #Vestments #Miters #Prayers #Faith #Worship #Altars #Christianity #ReligiousArt #Bishops #Mannerist #Print #Etching #Museums

  3. Saint Hilaire, eveque, 1630s

    etching 216 x 125 mm - Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
    Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZ

    api.digitalnz.org/records/1839

    #Saints #Vestments #Miters #Prayers #Faith #Worship #Altars #Christianity #ReligiousArt #Bishops #Mannerist #Print #Etching #Museums

  4. Convulsing – Perdurance [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]

    By Dear Hollow

    If you’re not familiar with Australia’s Convulsing, you’ve likely been exposed to mastermind Brendan Sloan’s impact on underground extreme metal. Alongside serving as bassist/vocalist of Altars (beginning with 2022’s Ascetic Reflection), guitarist of cinematic post-rock act Dumbsaint, and one-man show behind dissonant death/black distortionist Convulsing, he has contributed in some way or another to acts like Greytomb, Cosmic Putrefaction, Defacement, Gonemage, and Nightmarer. Convulsing remains his flagship project, and after two excellent LP’s Errata (2016) and Grievous (2018) of consecutively higher praise and a fantastic split with Siberian Hell Sounds, we are finally met with a gem of dissonant death metal after a six-year absence, an iconic record and monolithic sound steeped in nuance and imbued with dynamics, contrast, and texture: Perdurance.

    What makes Perdurance such a resounding and enduring success is its ability to attack with intensity and dissonance that outdoes the best of its genre-mates. Warped rhythms are graced with staggered riffs and blazing percussion, as Convulsing explores every nook and twist of a rhythm and melody until its inevitable conclusion is happened upon in tragic and fatal fashion. Dissonant leads are the guide of Perdurance, providing scenic vistas to punishingly heavy riffs while reminding listeners of the inevitable doom that awaits. Like this year’s Ulcerate, the devastation is beautifully nuanced and dynamics are secured, giving a sense of freedom, sentience, and lushness amid the relentless darkness and discordance. Tempo-abusing, blastbeat-wielding, and heavy as mountains, the more immediate offerings (“Pentarch,” “Flayed,” “Shattered Temples”) offer this weight in pulverizing chuggy progressions, with a lurking monstrosity and humanity beneath its processions somehow more mammoth than its ten-ton riffs.

    Beginning with “Inner Oceans,” we are graced with Convulsing’s massive sense of crescendos and atmospherics. A slow burn guided by the leads, the riffs are explored more subtly and incrementally – leading to a sense of immense claustrophobia and suffocation. Beginning delicately and organically, the tracks warp and shift while constantly growing in size and intensity, leading to what feels like cave walls closing in. The organicity suggests a warmth unexpected in this breed of death metal, as lush progressions morph to menacing tones seamlessly (“Endurance”), while devastation and grandiosity are the killing blow for natural growths and crescendos (“Inner Oceans”). The episodic nature of closer “Endurance” is aptly climactic and cinematic, its different three-minute portions threaded together with lush and yearning progressions slightly twisted to uncanny valley’s version of the heartfelt, amplified by brief passages of clean vocals and punkish beats.

    Perdurance shows that Sloan remains at the top of his game – Convulsing cements itself as one of the best offerings of underground extreme metal and death metal in general. The second you think you’ve heard a progression or passage before, Sloan distorts it with the precision of a mathematician and the ambition of a madman. It never neglects punishment or overstays its welcome, and every twist and turn feels beautifully executed and stunningly methodical. Even the cleanly sung bonus track Porcupine Tree cover “A Smart Kid” feels at home following “Endurance.” Reflected in its evergreen title, Perdurance represents an immortal statement in dissonant death metal and extreme metal in general: ceaselessly brutal, meticulously crafted, and indubitably iconic.

    Tracks to Check Out:1 “Flayed,” “Inner Oceans,” “Endurance”

    #2024 #Altars #AustralianMetal #BlackenedDeathMetal #Convulsing #CosmicPutrefaction #DeathMetal #Defacement #DissonantDeathMetal #Gonemage #Greytomb #Nightmarer #Perdurance #PorcupineTree #ProgressiveDeathMetal #SelfRelease #SiberianHellSounds #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2024 #TYMHM #Ulcerate

  5. Convulsing – Perdurance [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]

    By Dear Hollow

    If you’re not familiar with Australia’s Convulsing, you’ve likely been exposed to mastermind Brendan Sloan’s impact on underground extreme metal. Alongside serving as bassist/vocalist of Altars (beginning with 2022’s Ascetic Reflection), guitarist of cinematic post-rock act Dumbsaint, and one-man show behind dissonant death/black distortionist Convulsing, he has contributed in some way or another to acts like Greytomb, Cosmic Putrefaction, Defacement, Gonemage, and Nightmarer. Convulsing remains his flagship project, and after two excellent LP’s Errata (2016) and Grievous (2018) of consecutively higher praise and a fantastic split with Siberian Hell Sounds, we are finally met with a gem of dissonant death metal after a six-year absence, an iconic record and monolithic sound steeped in nuance and imbued with dynamics, contrast, and texture: Perdurance.

    What makes Perdurance such a resounding and enduring success is its ability to attack with intensity and dissonance that outdoes the best of its genre-mates. Warped rhythms are graced with staggered riffs and blazing percussion, as Convulsing explores every nook and twist of a rhythm and melody until its inevitable conclusion is happened upon in tragic and fatal fashion. Dissonant leads are the guide of Perdurance, providing scenic vistas to punishingly heavy riffs while reminding listeners of the inevitable doom that awaits. Like this year’s Ulcerate, the devastation is beautifully nuanced and dynamics are secured, giving a sense of freedom, sentience, and lushness amid the relentless darkness and discordance. Tempo-abusing, blastbeat-wielding, and heavy as mountains, the more immediate offerings (“Pentarch,” “Flayed,” “Shattered Temples”) offer this weight in pulverizing chuggy progressions, with a lurking monstrosity and humanity beneath its processions somehow more mammoth than its ten-ton riffs.

    Beginning with “Inner Oceans,” we are graced with Convulsing’s massive sense of crescendos and atmospherics. A slow burn guided by the leads, the riffs are explored more subtly and incrementally – leading to a sense of immense claustrophobia and suffocation. Beginning delicately and organically, the tracks warp and shift while constantly growing in size and intensity, leading to what feels like cave walls closing in. The organicity suggests a warmth unexpected in this breed of death metal, as lush progressions morph to menacing tones seamlessly (“Endurance”), while devastation and grandiosity are the killing blow for natural growths and crescendos (“Inner Oceans”). The episodic nature of closer “Endurance” is aptly climactic and cinematic, its different three-minute portions threaded together with lush and yearning progressions slightly twisted to uncanny valley’s version of the heartfelt, amplified by brief passages of clean vocals and punkish beats.

    Perdurance shows that Sloan remains at the top of his game – Convulsing cements itself as one of the best offerings of underground extreme metal and death metal in general. The second you think you’ve heard a progression or passage before, Sloan distorts it with the precision of a mathematician and the ambition of a madman. It never neglects punishment or overstays its welcome, and every twist and turn feels beautifully executed and stunningly methodical. Even the cleanly sung bonus track Porcupine Tree cover “A Smart Kid” feels at home following “Endurance.” Reflected in its evergreen title, Perdurance represents an immortal statement in dissonant death metal and extreme metal in general: ceaselessly brutal, meticulously crafted, and indubitably iconic.

    Tracks to Check Out:1 “Flayed,” “Inner Oceans,” “Endurance”

    #2024 #Altars #AustralianMetal #BlackenedDeathMetal #Convulsing #CosmicPutrefaction #DeathMetal #Defacement #DissonantDeathMetal #Gonemage #Greytomb #Nightmarer #Perdurance #PorcupineTree #ProgressiveDeathMetal #SelfRelease #SiberianHellSounds #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2024 #TYMHM #Ulcerate

  6. Convulsing – Perdurance [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]

    By Dear Hollow

    If you’re not familiar with Australia’s Convulsing, you’ve likely been exposed to mastermind Brendan Sloan’s impact on underground extreme metal. Alongside serving as bassist/vocalist of Altars (beginning with 2022’s Ascetic Reflection), guitarist of cinematic post-rock act Dumbsaint, and one-man show behind dissonant death/black distortionist Convulsing, he has contributed in some way or another to acts like Greytomb, Cosmic Putrefaction, Defacement, Gonemage, and Nightmarer. Convulsing remains his flagship project, and after two excellent LP’s Errata (2016) and Grievous (2018) of consecutively higher praise and a fantastic split with Siberian Hell Sounds, we are finally met with a gem of dissonant death metal after a six-year absence, an iconic record and monolithic sound steeped in nuance and imbued with dynamics, contrast, and texture: Perdurance.

    What makes Perdurance such a resounding and enduring success is its ability to attack with intensity and dissonance that outdoes the best of its genre-mates. Warped rhythms are graced with staggered riffs and blazing percussion, as Convulsing explores every nook and twist of a rhythm and melody until its inevitable conclusion is happened upon in tragic and fatal fashion. Dissonant leads are the guide of Perdurance, providing scenic vistas to punishingly heavy riffs while reminding listeners of the inevitable doom that awaits. Like this year’s Ulcerate, the devastation is beautifully nuanced and dynamics are secured, giving a sense of freedom, sentience, and lushness amid the relentless darkness and discordance. Tempo-abusing, blastbeat-wielding, and heavy as mountains, the more immediate offerings (“Pentarch,” “Flayed,” “Shattered Temples”) offer this weight in pulverizing chuggy progressions, with a lurking monstrosity and humanity beneath its processions somehow more mammoth than its ten-ton riffs.

    Beginning with “Inner Oceans,” we are graced with Convulsing’s massive sense of crescendos and atmospherics. A slow burn guided by the leads, the riffs are explored more subtly and incrementally – leading to a sense of immense claustrophobia and suffocation. Beginning delicately and organically, the tracks warp and shift while constantly growing in size and intensity, leading to what feels like cave walls closing in. The organicity suggests a warmth unexpected in this breed of death metal, as lush progressions morph to menacing tones seamlessly (“Endurance”), while devastation and grandiosity are the killing blow for natural growths and crescendos (“Inner Oceans”). The episodic nature of closer “Endurance” is aptly climactic and cinematic, its different three-minute portions threaded together with lush and yearning progressions slightly twisted to uncanny valley’s version of the heartfelt, amplified by brief passages of clean vocals and punkish beats.

    Perdurance shows that Sloan remains at the top of his game – Convulsing cements itself as one of the best offerings of underground extreme metal and death metal in general. The second you think you’ve heard a progression or passage before, Sloan distorts it with the precision of a mathematician and the ambition of a madman. It never neglects punishment or overstays its welcome, and every twist and turn feels beautifully executed and stunningly methodical. Even the cleanly sung bonus track Porcupine Tree cover “A Smart Kid” feels at home following “Endurance.” Reflected in its evergreen title, Perdurance represents an immortal statement in dissonant death metal and extreme metal in general: ceaselessly brutal, meticulously crafted, and indubitably iconic.

    Tracks to Check Out:1 “Flayed,” “Inner Oceans,” “Endurance”

    #2024 #Altars #AustralianMetal #BlackenedDeathMetal #Convulsing #CosmicPutrefaction #DeathMetal #Defacement #DissonantDeathMetal #Gonemage #Greytomb #Nightmarer #Perdurance #PorcupineTree #ProgressiveDeathMetal #SelfRelease #SiberianHellSounds #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2024 #TYMHM #Ulcerate

  7. Conglaciation – Conglaciation Review

    By Dolphin Whisperer

    In emergence to the full-length foray now ten years ago, Artificial Brain launched into orbit a novel style of knotted and screeching death metal that brought with it a slingshotting mass of a tangible cosmic horror. And though it’s up for debate whether they’ve yet to best that offering, it’s easy to declare that the Artificial Brain attack is one that has largely remained singular, definitive, and pushing adjacent bands—like cousin Afterbirth—to corners of space not cast from shadow to light. But as a distant sun shines about the gravity of that modern act, time tells us that eventually, some satellite will drift into its orbit. As such, Conglaciation, in earshot of this pioneering sound has found a reveal along this dissonantly-carved path. However, the stars don’t seem to be the destination for this fresh face—its layers feel equally icy as the vast cavern of galactic emptiness but terrestrial all the same.

    So what is it that separates this New York-based trio from both that which paved the way and that which is mostly related?1 That would be none other than a love for the beloved Pokémon game series. What? Was that not what you expected? As it turns out primary composer for these tunes Cotter Champlin (SARMAT, Galactic Empire)2 has a passion for both studied and shredding guitar antics as well as the “gotta catch ’em all” grind of battle monsters. And this matters as the tracks of Conglaciation, by osmosis or intention, each lurch forward with a harmony-edging melody against gurgle-burp vocal hypnotism—equal parts Demilich jagged riff-belching against restrained yet virtuosic fusion-colored solos—much in the same way a game’s incidental background tracks will intensify if you stand around and let them.

    Where heavy dissonance use often aims to attract via repulsion, Champlin’s sense of long-form and recursive melody functions, instead, as an anchor that gains weight throughout each piece. Certain numbers open with these kinds of creeping and snaking plays (“Asunder,” “Atrementous,” “Congruency”), the pace of which slogs in intentional contrast to frenetic blast beats and percussive grumblings flitter under and through a slowly weaving web. Always upfront in the mix, the frequently shrill and ear-stumping refrains remain more static in primary attack than drifting, allowing additional layers of Champlin’s instrumentation to flourish—terraced bass groans, Holdsworthian scale-bending fretplay, doubled melodic climbs with new accents (“Sublimate” has the largest growth in this regard). Conglaciation sticks to memory much easier than other works of this level of technical acclaim.

    Despite Conglaciation’s thoughtful construction, its charm has the appeal of a classical study piece, which conflicts with its true death metal moments in ways that scatter its attack. For an album so absolutely loaded with toothsome and jaw-dropping performances, it feels odd for Conglaciation to drop a seven-minute instrumental piece, “Sketch”,3 smack dab in the middle. Especially after the twisted Neuraxis-force groove that bolts down “Conglaciation” and gnarled, resplendent riffage of “Sublimate,” that choice for a tip-toeing, pizzicato imitating intermission, as creative as it may be, stands tall and in the way amongst its peers. In terms of execution and memorability though, “Sketch” still wins accolades in its over-atmospheric approach. Even Champlin’s solos can land this way in the context of how tight songs could be without them—warm in tone, they rarely soar above the eerie and frozen landscape that surround them.

    More étude than banger, Conglaciation opens this project’s career to the ears of the curious and dissecting. Too heady on average for the hammer-throwing hooligan, yet riff-loaded enough to incite some scattered pit riots (“Conglaciation,” “Ameliorate”), it flashes brightly enough all the same to catch those who feel the itch for a unique kind of sonic adventure. Nestled away in the relaxing and technical world of tension-masters like Convulsing and Altars, Conglaciation deserves a moment with its head just above the underground. And as they continue to master the craft of chiseling defined peaks in their work, it will be hard for any progressive death metal lover to look away.

    Rating: 3.0/5.0
    DR: 9 | Format Reviewed: PCM4
    Label: Liminal Dread Productions | Bandcamp
    Websites: conglaciation.bandcamp.com | instagram.com/conglaciation
    Releases Worldwide: July 19th, 2024

    #2024 #30 #Afterbirth #Altars #AmericanMetal #ArtificialBrain #Conglaciation #Convulsing #DeathMetal #Jul24 #LiminalDreadProductions #Neuraxis #Pokémon #ProgressiveDeathMetal #Review #Reviews #SARMAT #TechnicalDeathMetal

  8. Conglaciation – Conglaciation Review

    By Dolphin Whisperer

    In emergence to the full-length foray now ten years ago, Artificial Brain launched into orbit a novel style of knotted and screeching death metal that brought with it a slingshotting mass of a tangible cosmic horror. And though it’s up for debate whether they’ve yet to best that offering, it’s easy to declare that the Artificial Brain attack is one that has largely remained singular, definitive, and pushing adjacent bands—like cousin Afterbirth—to corners of space not cast from shadow to light. But as a distant sun shines about the gravity of that modern act, time tells us that eventually, some satellite will drift into its orbit. As such, Conglaciation, in earshot of this pioneering sound has found a reveal along this dissonantly-carved path. However, the stars don’t seem to be the destination for this fresh face—its layers feel equally icy as the vast cavern of galactic emptiness but terrestrial all the same.

    So what is it that separates this New York-based trio from both that which paved the way and that which is mostly related?1 That would be none other than a love for the beloved Pokémon game series. What? Was that not what you expected? As it turns out primary composer for these tunes Cotter Champlin (SARMAT, Galactic Empire)2 has a passion for both studied and shredding guitar antics as well as the “gotta catch ’em all” grind of battle monsters. And this matters as the tracks of Conglaciation, by osmosis or intention, each lurch forward with a harmony-edging melody against gurgle-burp vocal hypnotism—equal parts Demilich jagged riff-belching against restrained yet virtuosic fusion-colored solos—much in the same way a game’s incidental background tracks will intensify if you stand around and let them.

    Where heavy dissonance use often aims to attract via repulsion, Champlin’s sense of long-form and recursive melody functions, instead, as an anchor that gains weight throughout each piece. Certain numbers open with these kinds of creeping and snaking plays (“Asunder,” “Atrementous,” “Congruency”), the pace of which slogs in intentional contrast to frenetic blast beats and percussive grumblings flitter under and through a slowly weaving web. Always upfront in the mix, the frequently shrill and ear-stumping refrains remain more static in primary attack than drifting, allowing additional layers of Champlin’s instrumentation to flourish—terraced bass groans, Holdsworthian scale-bending fretplay, doubled melodic climbs with new accents (“Sublimate” has the largest growth in this regard). Conglaciation sticks to memory much easier than other works of this level of technical acclaim.

    Despite Conglaciation’s thoughtful construction, its charm has the appeal of a classical study piece, which conflicts with its true death metal moments in ways that scatter its attack. For an album so absolutely loaded with toothsome and jaw-dropping performances, it feels odd for Conglaciation to drop a seven-minute instrumental piece, “Sketch”,3 smack dab in the middle. Especially after the twisted Neuraxis-force groove that bolts down “Conglaciation” and gnarled, resplendent riffage of “Sublimate,” that choice for a tip-toeing, pizzicato imitating intermission, as creative as it may be, stands tall and in the way amongst its peers. In terms of execution and memorability though, “Sketch” still wins accolades in its over-atmospheric approach. Even Champlin’s solos can land this way in the context of how tight songs could be without them—warm in tone, they rarely soar above the eerie and frozen landscape that surround them.

    More étude than banger, Conglaciation opens this project’s career to the ears of the curious and dissecting. Too heady on average for the hammer-throwing hooligan, yet riff-loaded enough to incite some scattered pit riots (“Conglaciation,” “Ameliorate”), it flashes brightly enough all the same to catch those who feel the itch for a unique kind of sonic adventure. Nestled away in the relaxing and technical world of tension-masters like Convulsing and Altars, Conglaciation deserves a moment with its head just above the underground. And as they continue to master the craft of chiseling defined peaks in their work, it will be hard for any progressive death metal lover to look away.

    Rating: 3.0/5.0
    DR: 9 | Format Reviewed: PCM4
    Label: Liminal Dread Productions | Bandcamp
    Websites: conglaciation.bandcamp.com | instagram.com/conglaciation
    Releases Worldwide: July 19th, 2024

    #2024 #30 #Afterbirth #Altars #AmericanMetal #ArtificialBrain #Conglaciation #Convulsing #DeathMetal #Jul24 #LiminalDreadProductions #Neuraxis #Pokémon #ProgressiveDeathMetal #Review #Reviews #SARMAT #TechnicalDeathMetal

  9. To remind me of the constant cycle of things, that all things pass, that energy & life keep moving. I chose to work with 12s to represent the months in a year, an easy cycle to visualise. 12 single leaves, 12 stones, 12 triple leaves. Elder & stone. My feet. The bare earth below a favourite yew. Leaves blew away within minutes, further enforcing the reminder of impermanence.

    #altar #impermanence #landart #nature #pagan #ritual #naturemandala #altars #TreeHugger #tree #natureworship #magic

  10. To remind me of the constant cycle of things, that all things pass, that energy & life keep moving. I chose to work with 12s to represent the months in a year, an easy cycle to visualise. 12 single leaves, 12 stones, 12 triple leaves. Elder & stone. My feet. The bare earth below a favourite yew. Leaves blew away within minutes, further enforcing the reminder of impermanence.

    #altar #impermanence #landart #nature #pagan #ritual #naturemandala #altars #TreeHugger #tree #natureworship #magic

  11. To remind me of the constant cycle of things, that all things pass, that energy & life keep moving. I chose to work with 12s to represent the months in a year, an easy cycle to visualise. 12 single leaves, 12 stones, 12 triple leaves. Elder & stone. My feet. The bare earth below a favourite yew. Leaves blew away within minutes, further enforcing the reminder of impermanence.

    #altar #impermanence #landart #nature #pagan #ritual #naturemandala #altars #TreeHugger #tree #natureworship #magic

  12. To remind me of the constant cycle of things, that all things pass, that energy & life keep moving. I chose to work with 12s to represent the months in a year, an easy cycle to visualise. 12 single leaves, 12 stones, 12 triple leaves. Elder & stone. My feet. The bare earth below a favourite yew. Leaves blew away within minutes, further enforcing the reminder of impermanence.

    #altar #impermanence #landart #nature #pagan #ritual #naturemandala #altars #TreeHugger #tree #natureworship #magic

  13. To remind me of the constant cycle of things, that all things pass, that energy & life keep moving. I chose to work with 12s to represent the months in a year, an easy cycle to visualise. 12 single leaves, 12 stones, 12 triple leaves. Elder & stone. My feet. The bare earth below a favourite yew. Leaves blew away within minutes, further enforcing the reminder of impermanence.

    #altar #impermanence #landart #nature #pagan #ritual #naturemandala #altars #TreeHugger #tree #natureworship #magic

  14. I make circles to remind myself that I am whole, to bring all the scattered aspects of myself together as one healthy, functional, interesting Self. The opposite of dissociating, the counterbalance to disconnectedness. I make a lot of circles, and I make them from the natural world which heals me.

    #silentsunday #wales #seaside #nature #naturephotography #altars #altar #circles #healing #pagan #ritual #stones #rocks #rockhound #naturelovers #beach #rain #natureheals

  15. Made these for a mix of the Top Nine thing and the Art vs Artist thing. I have spent this winter exhausted and depressed, and it was a hard year. So it felt really good to look back and see how full & bright & full of nature & art the year actually was too. I made So Much stuff. Loads of new things. And moved my boys & myself across the country too. This was some nice positive reflection, and I needed it. #artist #artmatters #artists #nature #illustration #altars #landart #oracledeck #art

  16. Dear Friends of #Shrines, #altars and #Magick,

    My latest podcat, just over 5 minutes …
    audio.com/lobster/audio/shrine

    One of the things I did not cover … oops … is a #secular or #Atheist ‘shrine’. For example with images of #Jung, favoured #scientists such as the inventor of #apples and #light splitters Sire Isaac Newton.
    That sort of thing. Maybe some numbers or favoured #algorithms etc.

    This is what the AI says about it
    “The process of setting up a shrine or altar. Explain the #simplest form of a shrine is based on personal comfort and #tradition. They give #examples of setting up a shrine to #deities in Hinduism and #Pagan traditions. The speaker mentions using #water, #incense, #flowers, and images of the deity on the shrine. They mention different ways of doing #rituals, depending on the individual’s beliefs. The speaker also explains that over time, more things can become a shrine, such as the #kitchen or specific #areas with #reminders of #practices or people. They mention using #virtual shrines on #computers and finding #patterns or #resonance with the deity or #qualities everywhere. The speaker emphasizes that everything can become a shrine and that the process #evolves over time.”

  17. Dear Friends of #Shrines, #altars and #Magick,

    My latest podcat, just over 5 minutes …
    audio.com/lobster/audio/shrine

    One of the things I did not cover … oops … is a #secular or #Atheist ‘shrine’. For example with images of #Jung, favoured #scientists such as the inventor of #apples and #light splitters Sire Isaac Newton.
    That sort of thing. Maybe some numbers or favoured #algorithms etc.

    This is what the AI says about it
    “The process of setting up a shrine or altar. Explain the #simplest form of a shrine is based on personal comfort and #tradition. They give #examples of setting up a shrine to #deities in Hinduism and #Pagan traditions. The speaker mentions using #water, #incense, #flowers, and images of the deity on the shrine. They mention different ways of doing #rituals, depending on the individual’s beliefs. The speaker also explains that over time, more things can become a shrine, such as the #kitchen or specific #areas with #reminders of #practices or people. They mention using #virtual shrines on #computers and finding #patterns or #resonance with the deity or #qualities everywhere. The speaker emphasizes that everything can become a shrine and that the process #evolves over time.”

  18. Two things from this week. A large stone #compass made by the sea, and the start of a #pyrography project: a box for one of my #tarot decks. (Forgot alt text the first time I posted)

    #MastoArt #art #artist #stonecircles #altars #altar #pagan #pyrographer #artwork #beachart #naturelover

  19. Monuments are overwhelming, huge, hard to break, violently jammed into the earth. They reinforce, reproduce, extend power. Monuments violently silence stories people tell about themselves, they suppress every story but their own. The stories told by monuments end in morals. They serve power, they work to control. Only the powerful can call monuments into being.

    Altars are human scale creations, spontaneously precipitated out of a shared desire to tell a shared story. Created both together and individually, this work coalesces socially to express something of the community. Altars are temporary, shifting, laid down upon the earth gently. They quietly amplify the stories people tell about themselves, they celebrate every story woven into them. The stories told by altars don’t end in morals. They don’t end at all, they’re liberating. Anyone can call altars into being.

    chez-risk.in/2023/04/11/monume

    #Anarchism #Altars #Monuments #CalebDuarte #WEBDuBois #PercyShelley #History #Ceramics #Pottery #Tiles #Ozymandias #Memory #ZapanteraNegra

  20. Monuments are overwhelming, huge, hard to break, violently jammed into the earth. They reinforce, reproduce, extend power. Monuments violently silence stories people tell about themselves, they suppress every story but their own. The stories told by monuments end in morals. They serve power, they work to control. Only the powerful can call monuments into being.

    Altars are human scale creations, spontaneously precipitated out of a shared desire to tell a shared story. Created both together and individually, this work coalesces socially to express something of the community. Altars are temporary, shifting, laid down upon the earth gently. They quietly amplify the stories people tell about themselves, they celebrate every story woven into them. The stories told by altars don’t end in morals. They don’t end at all, they’re liberating. Anyone can call altars into being.

    chez-risk.in/2023/04/11/monume

    #Anarchism #Altars #Monuments #CalebDuarte #WEBDuBois #PercyShelley #History #Ceramics #Pottery #Tiles #Ozymandias #Memory #ZapanteraNegra

  21. Monuments are overwhelming, huge, hard to break, violently jammed into the earth. They reinforce, reproduce, extend power. Monuments violently silence stories people tell about themselves, they suppress every story but their own. The stories told by monuments end in morals. They serve power, they work to control. Only the powerful can call monuments into being.

    Altars are human scale creations, spontaneously precipitated out of a shared desire to tell a shared story. Created both together and individually, this work coalesces socially to express something of the community. Altars are temporary, shifting, laid down upon the earth gently. They quietly amplify the stories people tell about themselves, they celebrate every story woven into them. The stories told by altars don’t end in morals. They don’t end at all, they’re liberating. Anyone can call altars into being.

    chez-risk.in/2023/04/11/monume

    #Anarchism #Altars #Monuments #CalebDuarte #WEBDuBois #PercyShelley #History #Ceramics #Pottery #Tiles #Ozymandias #Memory #ZapanteraNegra

  22. Monuments are overwhelming, huge, hard to break, violently jammed into the earth. They reinforce, reproduce, extend power. Monuments violently silence stories people tell about themselves, they suppress every story but their own. The stories told by monuments end in morals. They serve power, they work to control. Only the powerful can call monuments into being.

    Altars are human scale creations, spontaneously precipitated out of a shared desire to tell a shared story. Created both together and individually, this work coalesces socially to express something of the community. Altars are temporary, shifting, laid down upon the earth gently. They quietly amplify the stories people tell about themselves, they celebrate every story woven into them. The stories told by altars don’t end in morals. They don’t end at all, they’re liberating. Anyone can call altars into being.

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