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haptalaonReligion as cut-up culture.
I'm trying to pull everything together, and I think what I'm creating is zines and mix tapes. Things which I cobble together and duplicate and send out. Zine culture is collaborative, it's about photocopying. I photocopy bits about the Landweird into my zine, and send it out. Others copy that zine and share it, with pages added of their own.
It exists in many versions, in many hands, drawing from the world we see but made special by the fact it has been selected and made significant: this quote, that image, these songs.
Landcrafting has an aesthetic link to the 70s and the anti-digital, so it seems a natural fit. But even when you look at something like the Bible, the idea of a singular holy book has never been true: it's a palimpsest of words and writings, with various authorities deciding which bits to include in their personal grimoires.
One inclusion in Landcrafting is the use of a Commonplace Book, rather than a Book of Shadows. You write in quotes and paste images as you encounter things that seem to elucidate the Landweird. You know, like tumblr, although for aesthetic reasons creating this anti-digitally is far preferred.
So maybe that's the model for sending out religious ideas by hand: not a finished handbook, or a set of instructions, or a static holy book, or a website I can incrementally update which holds the newest official version of the lore. But a series of zines, which are not precious or carefully organised, just things that take my fancy photocopied into place one after another - to form the basis of a seeker's own Commonplace Book, in which they can add what they find and cut mine if they don't seem right, and which they then photocopy and pass to others.
Like, Landcrafting is mostly an aesthetic and a mood. That's it's purest form; the words and forms and rituals are false things built on top of something that is true. And so with all religion, being but man's poor mirror for the infinite divine. So, again: far better to send a tape of songs and a hand-photocopied staple compilation of ideas and quotes, than a set of prayers and rules.
I'm trying to pull everything together, and I think what I'm creating is zines and mix tapes. Things which I cobble together and duplicate and send out. Zine culture is collaborative, it's about photocopying. I photocopy bits about the Landweird into my zine, and send it out. Others copy that zine and share it, with pages added of their own.
It exists in many versions, in many hands, drawing from the world we see but made special by the fact it has been selected and made significant: this quote, that image, these songs.
Landcrafting has an aesthetic link to the 70s and the anti-digital, so it seems a natural fit. But even when you look at something like the Bible, the idea of a singular holy book has never been true: it's a palimpsest of words and writings, with various authorities deciding which bits to include in their personal grimoires.
One inclusion in Landcrafting is the use of a Commonplace Book, rather than a Book of Shadows. You write in quotes and paste images as you encounter things that seem to elucidate the Landweird. You know, like tumblr, although for aesthetic reasons creating this anti-digitally is far preferred.
So maybe that's the model for sending out religious ideas by hand: not a finished handbook, or a set of instructions, or a static holy book, or a website I can incrementally update which holds the newest official version of the lore. But a series of zines, which are not precious or carefully organised, just things that take my fancy photocopied into place one after another - to form the basis of a seeker's own Commonplace Book, in which they can add what they find and cut mine if they don't seem right, and which they then photocopy and pass to others.
Like, Landcrafting is mostly an aesthetic and a mood. That's it's purest form; the words and forms and rituals are false things built on top of something that is true. And so with all religion, being but man's poor mirror for the infinite divine. So, again: far better to send a tape of songs and a hand-photocopied staple compilation of ideas and quotes, than a set of prayers and rules.
