Receiver of wounding visions, gazer on
blinding light.
speculum-mundi-incognito.com is my website.
Here, I have posted a few pieces of ornamented/
illustrated writing and a few songs I've done.
Summaries of the written pieces are contained in
the blogs here.
When I write, I leave my body. Or perhaps more
appropriately, my body is occupied. This Invading
Writer, to whom I give myself freely, is told
secrets by stones and observes songs in the
patterns of fallen branches. He believes very
seriously that there is an actual speech/text
inherent in a given thing, and that if it can be
found, you can employ that thing's power in the
world, or change the thing you've learned to
describe. He therefore sees writing not so much
as an external description, but as an act of
discovery of a heretofore unknown thing, like
isolating morphine from a poppy. Invisible
without this act of inquiry, but always there.
Should this ever be accomplished to a great
extent, I suppose he will have become a sort
of a god, and I will be his typically
inadequate prophet. (You should probably
feel like I have crossed some essential line
of good taste and self restraint in making
this last statement).
In any case, the other me is left with the
self-conscious task of sorting through his
endless stream of text and deciding what to
put on the website.
It may be of interest to view the Blood
Seeks Blood profile below, where a few
pieces of ritual music I made can be
found.
