Motto for the Poisoner
Motto Labels for Poison Seed Boxes
The motif was drawn with pencil, scanned, edited and printed on strong laid paper. It is to adorn the next row of Poison Seed Boxes available via Teufelskunst. The paper is by Buchbinderei Dresden.
BIS Letter
Well almost…
Today in the mail a letter from the British Iris Society (BIS), who were so kind to send me their last share of Iris attica seeds. Iris attica is a type of dwarf bearded iris native to Greece. It is mentioned as agallis in the Bouquet of Persephonê.
The seeds are needed for a project I have been working on during the past months together with Melitta Benu. Melitta contacted me while back with the plan to build a seed box for the goddess Persephonê (read more about my seed boxes here). So she was gathering info and sources on flowers, herbs and trees attributed to the semi-chthonian deity, whilst my job was to collect the respective seeds (and bulbs) as well as designing and constructing the box. With the seeds arrived now also the last missing link to be added to that box.
Iris seeds
If you are interested in irises, grow your own or seek to learn more about them you may contact the British Iris Society. More info can be found on their website.
My ‘sigil’ for the Iris:
Iris Seal
Been out on a little herb search today, gathered seeds and foliage and photographed whatever caught my attention… The flowers of the St. John’s Wort were moving in the wind just the moment I released the shutter, leaving a shining signature on the image. The herb used to be hung above religious images on St. John’s to keep evil away from the home. Hence the name Hypericum, from Greek hyper =above and eikon =image.
During the past months (or actually years) I have been photographing a lot of different herbs, flowers, plants and trees, in various aspects, different weather conditions, in their wholeness as well as dissecting details from root to stem to foliage to flower and fruit. A selection of these photos is online at my Photography site wr-photography.com and in addition I regularly post new photos to Facebook, Pinterest, tumblr and Deviantart as well as Behance.
Seeking out, identifying and observing flowers, plants and trees through the camera, close-up as well as within their surrounding, is a way of learning, discovering, documenting and lastly also transmitting various aesthetically pleasing as well as repulsive aspects and sometimes also the visible effects of human interference with nature’s kingdom plantae. This branch of photography plays also a big roll for the Teufelskunst project where at least 50% of all time and work are dedicated to the gnosis of the green. Naturally, it is also a huge inspiration for my visual art, with contents not seldom being codified in and transported through abstract and/or symbolical linear floral forms (my own floriography or ‘language of flowers’).
Depending on the situation, mood and context you will find crisp, natural, slightly or heavily edited images in my plant photography. Some images play with motion blur and focus, others with color and contrast etc.
Below is a selection of some of my favorite recent and past nature shots:
Black Dhatura
Giant Aberrant Foxglove Flower (Pseudo-Peloria)
Her Fruit III (Scopolia carniolica)
Spring Impressions 2013:
Apple Blossoms
Bee on Cuckoo Flowers
Tulip Drops
Belladonna Sprouts
Trees:
Old Linden Alley, Dresden Friedrichstadt
Beech
Beeches and Ginkgo, Strasbourg
Tentacle Tree, Lilienstein
Traces
The Old Hag
Willow Bark
House
Beith
The Bleeding Tree
Black Poplar of Babisnau
Twogether
Autumn Trees, 2005
A series on Poisonous Flowers and their Pollinators:
Nightflight
Bumblebee, gathering nectar from a Wolfsbane Flower
Bumblebee crawling into a Belladonna Flower
How things got started:
Bilsenkraut Erntezyklus, 2010
Bumblebee on Henbane Flower
Listen to the Silence
To be continued…
Seven years ago DISSECTION’S REINKAOS album came out – inside my concert and band photography, alongside amazing photos by Shelley Jambresic of www.metalpix.ch and reknown Swedish director/filmer/photographer/producer Mikael R. Hylin.
This photo went on the backside of the album booklet as well as a row of band t-shirts.
I thank everyone who worked hard to bring this album to manifestation.
Have a Blessed Walpurgis Night!
Lily of the Valley, Sigil Design as Tattoo (photo by the client)
For custom designs and illustration contact me at design@teufelskunst.com
This symbol is used on my sun incense blends and is also pyrographed on a walnut wooden pendant (the walnut being a sun tree). The symbol is an altered version of the planetary symbol for the sun (a closed circle with a dot in the center). By breaking the closed circle and turning it into a coil, it emphasizes an active and dynamic principle as opposed to a passive state or ‘perfection’. The shape is inspired by solar flares. The coil can also standard for the inner flame. It also resembles the number 6 (kabbalistic number of the sun). If turned upside down it becomes a crowned number nine. Seen anti-clockwise, it stands for involution/ revolution/ return to a primal state – or the centering and focusing of the mind in meditation. Seen clock-wise, it would stand for evolution/ development/ progressing to a higher state – or the expression of one’s inner thoughts and impulses.
Our sun is going through an interesting period, which affects the entire planetary system.
The first skull-candle I cast this year broke…. I take this as a (good) sign.
Now here is a pic of all the broken skulls left from previous casts.
Happy New Year everyone!
…it’s selling fast:
www.teufelskunst.com/herbs-incense/incense
(Photos me)
Also I have been asked by two bands to compose stage incense for their shows. More on this coming soon…
I just love the shirt with the band-logo and art designed by Akherra Phasmatánas
Path of Samsara are a band from Munich and currently have their first album Black Lotus out
Their demo was demo of the month in German Metal Hammer
Read an interview with the band in German Legacy magazine here
To order the shirt and album go here: http://pathofsamsara.bigcartel.com/
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