Vol.iii
Acid Folk Art
RITUAL
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
McKenna
*Peter MesserETHOS
Any philosophy, thesis, or style degenerates pro rata to the number who embrace it. Thou art the way. I would ask of thee thy suppressed self, is it nor the new thing desired? The search is to be known only to the seeker, it is not to be taught but only to be learned.
The deepest secret is always hidden even though it be displayed openly to the public or cried from rooftops.
All poetry deals more or less in the common form, this common coin, this circulating fluid of idea and image and phrase, and that it is the very ethos, nay, the very essence, of the poet to make the common as if it were not common.
Leaving aside all unreal dreams, consider this world as insincere disbelief enmeshed in an elaborate network of religious, metaphysical or philosophical ideas and which attracts not so much admirers as devotees.
Whosoever follows me becomes his own enemy; for in that day my exigency shall be his ruin. Go labour! Fulfil the disgust of becoming yourself, of discovering your beliefs, and thus acquire virtue.
From ‘Ethos – The Magical Writings of Austin Osman Spare’ by Austin Osman Spare
‘Untitled’ (2007) by Mustapha Asmah
'Elegy' (1987) by Virginia Verran
‘Grotesque’ by Peter Messer
Aphantasia.
noun
/əˈkʌlt,ˈɒkʌlt/
cut off from view by interposing something.
"a wooden screen designed to occult the competitors"
Mycelium.
/mʌɪˈsiːlɪəm/
noun
18th Century Portal.
/ˈpɔːtl/
noun
a doorway, gate, or other entrance, especially a large and imposing one.
Austin Osman Spare
We are in the process of listing a collection AOS work - this work will be made available to purchase on this website by the end of this month (November, 2024)
Something from eastern esotericism; imported from India, we have a collection of vintage framed prints of Hindu Gods dating from the middle of the last century. Please click on an image to view in shop.
