fyi: this is SO GOOD. i've only listened to it all the way through once {3 lps!}, but so far it has a sort of lush ladies of the canyon vibe that i really love. i don't know if it's surpassed Ys for me, but it's still highly recommended!
Wednesday
mail call!
in the past week i received mail from two wonderful people that i haven't seen in way too long.
the first was from my friend ryan in chicago who sent me these sweet navin/marie marrionette puppets.
the second is this AMAZINGLY PERFECT 3D holographic horse postcard from my philly friend jackie j. i literally squealed when i saw it. thank you both!
the first was from my friend ryan in chicago who sent me these sweet navin/marie marrionette puppets.
sikuli.
i've been gone for a while, huh?! well, i've been busy preparing for my final graduate review this friday. lots of printing and dying and bleaching and crocheting and reading and thinking about magic and horses and the universe. i made these god's eye earrings to wear for my review. they are made of sterling silver, glow-in-the-dark thread and horse hair. they didn't turn out quite the way i was hoping, but i'm considering them prototypes.
they're about 1.5" long, plus the earwire. here i am wearing them [with twenty-twenty doing his best disaffected gucci model stare.]
for the huichol peoples of northwestern mexico, the god's eye is symbolic of the power of seeing and understanding that which is unknown and unknowable, The Mystery. the huichol call their god's eyes sikuli, which means "the power to see and understand things unknown." yes!
they're about 1.5" long, plus the earwire. here i am wearing them [with twenty-twenty doing his best disaffected gucci model stare.]
for the huichol peoples of northwestern mexico, the god's eye is symbolic of the power of seeing and understanding that which is unknown and unknowable, The Mystery. the huichol call their god's eyes sikuli, which means "the power to see and understand things unknown." yes!
Monday
the social theory of magic.
i've been reading this book for my thesis and it's so amazing {and confusing}. it's full of marvelous sentences such as:
and semi-mindbloggling graphs such as this:
"magic actions are rituals that make or change something. they operate mysteriously and what they create is mostly mystical. they often create an object or change a state, usually by a transfer of a quality or an infusion of a power."
and semi-mindbloggling graphs such as this:
i can feel myself getting more magical by the page! i'd recommend it to anyone who's, you know, interested in the academic, philosophical and psychoanalytical dissection of the history and human understanding of magic.
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