“What is magic that a person may do it, and a person that they may do magic?” This is a question I return to often. As William said a moment ago, I design and build things that demonstrate occult practices mediated — in some way — by new technologies; usually, there is some digital component to what I do. So I do a lot of observing what people do when they do magic — or do things about magic — and mapping my observations of that domain to a domain of actions or activities made possible by whatever technology I’m observing.
You do the same thing when you write occult books. You take occult knowledge, or knowledge about occult practices or experiences, and you find ways to communicate that knowledge through the technology of books. You select the appropriate words or images, which you arrange in an appropriate way; you select the appropriate typefaces and materials, and you arrange all of these things in a very particular order to create an object that intersects a domain of occult stuff, with a medium of communication-in-action. And then you give it to someone to…
Hi HyperRitual,
excellent presentation so far. I think that the figure from Matthew Reinhart & Robert Sabuda’s Encyclopaedia Mythologica volume, Dragons & Monsters, is the Medusa and not the Sphinx. I’m not 100% certain about this, but I can deduct it from her snakey hair.
Keep up with the great work,
Plethon.
Hi, Nick. Thanks for taking time to check out my work. Look at the lower-right corner of the book; that is the transition I am referring to in the speech/text. :-)
Right, I get it now, thank you for pointing it out. I have finished watching the slide show and I find it brilliant. It does motivate to go out and start doing, creating, interacting… Please produce more work like this, we’re so thirsty for this kind of quality.
Cheers, man!