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thanks for comments on the altar peeps. most kind.

regarding making things, statues/figurines in particular, this really is a horses for courses matter but the main thing for me is whether something fits. For instance, Genesis (the main figure with the TV tummy;-) came about beacuse I was doing a lot of work with TOPY/P'Orridge as a focus at a time when me and my partner were doing a number of film screenings and helping out in Occulture performances. It arrived and fitted with the tv, the camera and the working. My partner did a rite whereby she wrote all over him and then he went onto a stage. It sort of expressed a working in public when someone asked us to provide something for their show - and then he came home to stay. I also have a number of small figurines made out of that air dry clay stuff, headless male and female figures and a torso that I carry around in my mojo bag, all made in personal meditation space when we were working with clay to focus our bodies rather than mantras or anything else. Aion, on the other hand, appeared as a ready made in a shop in Brighton. I had been doing a series of workings with the Az'ra Lumial rite and had a pilgrimage to Stonehenge and a bunch of other stuff and had gone to the shop to get a bell for some rites when this red figure just sort of grabbed my attention, sitting hidden behind part of the frame of the cabinet. It wasn't until I was chatting to someone at a camp a bit later that I even realised that Aion was something related to chaos majik via the IOT's fascination with that character. It connected with a whole load of work I have been doing on time majik for a good few years and was just a strange synchronicity which soon generated a number of stories all of its own and has a whole history of involvement with my work in the space of maybe two or three months, very rapid assimiliation in terms of my usual slow progress on anything. So it's a horses for courses thing and sometimes best to see how things fit.

There's a story that Jaq Hawkins tell's on her website of how she decided to go out and get a Ganesha to do some work with him after chatting to some other magicians and deciding it might be appropriate for a project she's working on. So out she goes to get one, finds one she loves and then realises it costs over a £100...but before the price had been there she'd already connected so in a way she felt like she just had to go with it. As it happened she had enough cash that day cos something else had paid up. That sounded to me like a sort of 'fit', even one that's a little trickstery/demanding, which seemed fitting if she was about to work with Ganesha with the view of asking for a boon.

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