7.6.23

...new from Goth Galicia...

...doors are the most important places. The Roman god Janus guarded them and looked both ways with his head facing back and front...to the past and future. He is the oldest of gods from the time of Romulus and Remus. He is the god of doors, portals, passageways and transitions - concrete and abstract, life/death, beginning/end, youth/adulthood, rural/urban, war/peace. Transformations and shifts. He ruled over all life changes, birth, death, harvest, planting, seasons, new beginnings. He held the key to heaven. Janus was celebrated first before any other god at all ceremonies. 

Goth as a state of mind and Gothic architecture - more photographs of doors and portals photographed in Galicia, an area of Visigoth, Moor, Romanesque, local and Roman influences... 

https://ceceliachapman.com/index/f/goth-galicia-photographs-of-doors-and-portals

https://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2023/05/goth-galicia-doors-and-portals.html

 













...new music from Vulcan Ironworks film, with Rafael Gonzalez and Rocky Oshiro...you see it here first!

 


6.5.23

Goth Galicia: doors and portals...

doors are the most important places. The Roman god Janus guarded them and looked both ways with his head facing back and front...to the past and future. He is the oldest of gods from the time of Romulus and Remus. He is the god of doors, portals, passageways and transitions - concrete and abstract, life/death, beginning/end, youth/adulthood, rural/urban, war/peace. Transformations and shifts. He ruled over all life changes, birth, death, harvest, planting, seasons, new beginnings. He held the key to heaven. Janus was celebrated first before any other god at all ceremonies. 

Goth as a state of mind and Gothic architecture - more photographs of doors and portals photographed in Galicia, an area of Visigoth, Moor, Romanesque, local and Roman influences... 

https://ceceliachapman.com/index/f/goth-galicia-photographs-of-doors-and-portals




















11.4.23

...Outlaw Seals...and not really mail collaboration but asemic drawing, writing, works on paper, new...


Outlaw Seals, glyphs and talismans 2023. Series of 10. 8.5 x 11.5 inches, 21.6 x 29.7 cm. Watercolor, collage, gouache, personal stamps, ink, graphite. Asemic writing is an experiment breaking laws of grammar, spelling, punctuation, paragraph, sentence structure. 






OUTLAW SEALS


An outlaw who practiced ritual writing was resting under a tree by the springs and eating her lunch when demons gathered to party. She watched the demons do their demonic, perverted things and throw garbage in the waters. Their wicked energy was disturbing everyone. So she walked over with a burning stick, and writing in smoke in the air, stunned the demons. The outlaw gathered them all and put them in a jar sealed with her seals where they were helpless until the jar was opened. 


After thousands of years the place of the jar was known as The Hall of the Jar. It was a place of star watching and a pure springs with a code of conduct: 

1. Value all life 

2. Pollution of streams and rivers is prohibited

3. Do not contend


A Guardian of the Hall welcomed a guest from a foreign land who asked about the jar. The visitor laughed when he heard the jar was full of demons. In the dark of the moon the guest sneaked into the Hall and opened the jar. The demons flew out. They laughed at the visitor and threw him into the sea. But the sea felt polluted by him and waves threw him out. 


The escaped demons had watched the outlaw’s good deeds and remembered them for thousands of years. They decided to follow her example and do good. After a while the locals got used to the ragged demons in their country wandering around trying to help people, doing good, and studying how to write. The people made the demons heroes of a thousand skills and disguises. That is another story.




...last week's JOKERJOKERTV...Eat the Night movie...

...another epic episode of video, music, performance and chat...not sure why my credit movie says CIRCUS CHAOS but is really EAT THE NIGHT with Jeff Crouch...but the entire show is worth catching...

 

...Kraft und Macht, new mail collaboration movie with Jeff Crouch...

 


14.3.23

...MUST SEE ...the fantastic new issue of RANGER...with Round the Clock film 2023 and wonderful lineup of artists...

 https://www.rangermagazine.net/issue-1

...even more artists...

...a beautiful issue...

Our Round the Clock film with the great sound artist Jeff Crouch...

(although you, at MAD, have seen Round the Clock first here...)







White Yang 2020 and 7Powers of Wrath2010!! @JOKERJOKERTV Thursday...

Two films, White Yang 2020 and 7Powers of Wrath 2010, yes 2010...so be there... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkPgBzNEaHc  

Thursday...March 16, 6:30 EST, 22:30 EU 

Both with the great Jeff Crouch!! music...