MIRRORIBIS

 Mirroribis Versus Kinkos, Denver, 1996. (Nineties Post-Punk Zine/Pre-digital art)  I was 25 at the time, and living in Denver with my then-girlfriend (and now wife) Heather Marx. In my spare alone time, between exploring 1990 Denver's myriad old used book and record stores and poring over ancient, out-of-print Dadaist texts, I made art and music, just like now. I was intent to make art and express my self to a neurotic degree (still am), but I had no real technical art skills beyond high school and my experience working in print/copy shops. In 1996, digital art was just starting. Unless you had an inside, or Megabucks, you couldn't get access to the computers and programs for digital art.  So I experimented. I used weird materials that weren't supposed to go in the machines, running them through multiple times with multiple images, hard-stopping the machines in mid run and altering the toner before it was fused. Color copying wasn't quite right y...

 An Antlered Cynocephalus in the Hall of Obelisks.  I woke up and took bibliomantic (random page flip sortilege) scans of old Webster's Universal Unabridged Dictionary from 1996 at a half conscious four AM.  I used active alchemical imaginal imagination with underlying glitched western esoterics and weird fiction narrative to envoke Apophenia, make signal from the noise and use technical art to make this:     The Title is:  "An Antlered Cynocephalus in the Hall of Obelisks."  Here is a detail of the Antlered Cynocephalus in question: Here's the story/philosophy behind the meaning of the image.  The word Cynocephalus means a dogheaded being or baboon.  This succession of quotes in a row sums up the philosophy of it: "... it was seen from very early times that the use of speech, or writing, meant the introduction of ambiguity at the best, and falsehood at the worst; they therefore represented Thoth as followed by an ape, the cynocepha...

Mistake year cultured "The Divine Intersex With Writer's block (Atu XIV Baulked)" Sitting proud hubris i am but a window a nerve an eye ego has no say the psyche moves as it will and hir name is arte.  Comparision Of Atu XIV with Thoth, Rider/Waite, Mirroribis decks.