{"id":122,"date":"2012-04-04T09:10:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=122"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:11:15","slug":"art-as-magic-magic-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/creativity\/art-as-magic-magic-as-art\/","title":{"rendered":"art as magic, magic as art"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happens when you combine a thorough guide to sigil theory and construction<\/a>, my recent-found love of painting, and inspiration from some beautiful handmade magic scrolls<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Well, you get this:<\/p>\n

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(Left side for color distinction, right side for sheer shininess.)<\/p>\n

The first sigil of a shoal<\/a> that I intend to hang over the painted tapestry that’s over my altar. You’ll notice I used Kalash, my artificial alphabet, instead of English script to create the sigil itself; that’s because I already use Kalash for prayers and charms, and also because it looks really friggin’ cool, especially when I get to arrange the letters artistically like this.<\/p>\n

This sigil is for my partner J and I both, but the initial idea was his: he wanted a sigil for “inspired action,” or inspiration with<\/i> the capacity\/willingness to manifest it into reality. The blue is vivid and deep, the primordial waters, cauldron of life; the sigil is in gold, for creativity and molten ore; strands of sacred purple come down from the stars as inspiration, and orange roots snake down to reach the fertile earth below and manifest the ideas.<\/p>\n

Working through this has delighted my inner facets of geek in so many ways. Figuring out how to phrase the goal\/intention to be linguistically aesthetic in English, psychologically effective, and magically active; using Kalash to make it visually cryptic and elaborate and pleasing to look at; using my knowledge of magical color symbolism and the psychology of color; and then getting to paint it myself! And that’s not even going into any rituals or magic that will be performed over\/for the finished painting before I hang it as “active” on my wall. :D<\/p>\n

In short, I loved doing this, and I’m eager to do the next!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happens when you combine a thorough guide to sigil theory and construction, my recent-found love of painting, and inspiration from some beautiful handmade magic scrolls? Well, you get this: (Left side for color distinction, right side for sheer shininess.) The first sigil of a shoal that I intend to hang over the painted tapestry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[21,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}