Tag: 6
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Gold Leaf Talisman
In our work we describe objects as vessels for knowledge animated by shamans/magicians. How does this “animation” work? For example, one researcher told the short tale of a talisman made of gold leaf, held in the pouch of an old woman whose grandfather entrusted her with it. She has no idea what it is or…
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Clarifying
The work becomes more clear The only way to navigate through the quantities of information (and disinformation) was to fully embrace the imagination and activate it as a research tool. Imagination was an active component of the process of evaluating and assessing the materials. A conventional narrative would not do the trick, being impossibly restrictive,…
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Tree Shadow
It was time to address the notebooks. Filled with code, some readable, others with illustrations, all handbound and made into beautiful packages. The ideas held in them ancient and incendiary, not to be handled lightly, but to be studied in depth after inner preparation. They were not for everyone, of course, only the adepts or…
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Research Travel
After returning to the warehouse, and settling in to the various rooms that seemed to have meaning for my explorations, I found myself unable to shake the feeling that I had really missed something important. I went over and over my notes and checked each of the photos I’d taken to establish the space. The…
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White Worms
I was told by a voice not to touch it, but I did. I opened the little box of lies. Someone left it on my doorstep, rang the bell and ran away. I knew it was children with the pointed teeth. I knew it was a dangerous box. But curiosity made me pick it up.…
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Tray of Soil
In the exploration of my wunderkabinett, each aspect of my study reveals a new approach to understanding it. I see it now before me. What does it mean? Is it simply a magician’s storage unit? All those books and substances and tools of the trade have to be placed somewhere – they can’t just stay…
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Significant Token
There was a brief hiatus of a few months. I received word through a small note hidden inside my junk mail – do not go to the Group Jeff ballet this evening. There has been a change of venue. I knew well enough that this was a message from the archivist, so I stayed home…
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Five Objects
The magical treatise made it all clear: we were to take from the cabinet five specific objects. These would identify themselves, announce themselves, through our feeling of them. Not physical touch, but more of an intuitive in-feeling that made them seem to flash a recognition. Once found, the five objects are to be taken to…