#wagens

[killyridols]

was flüsterst du by eliza wagener, 2024, oil & acrylic on canvas, 40 × 50 × 3 centimeters

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

As I posted this past spring, I was this year's juror for the 5th Triennial Exhibition of the Wood Engravers' Network, the national organization for American wood engravers. With my love of wood engravings and the superior quality of the entries, the experience was joyfully playful.

Of the 140 entries, I selected 60 for the exhibition. The chosen works met all four of my criteria: excellent craftsmanship; interesting composition; emotional resonance; work I would I would mount on the walls of my home. But among these 60, there were a set of works that really resonated with me, and I display two of them here, along with some details and the front and back covers of the catalog that display snippets of some of the other work: Northern Pygmy Owl (4.5" x 3") by California artist Richard Wagener and The Madonna Tree (6.6" x 5") by Massachusetts engraver and letterpress printer Abigail Rorer.

What stands out for me in Wagener's owl print is the asymmetrical composition with the flat jet-black background having the same emotional weight as the owl, and the simple treatment of the eyeballs that allow the eyes to almost glow in the darkness. In Rorer's print, it is the precision of her mark making, the exquisite depth of her composition, and just the aliveness of the tree and the apparent spirit it holds. Both just wonderful!

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– MAX, Head of Special Collections

[vintagecamping]

Camping by the lake with the KdF Wagen.

Germany

1941

[jasper-pagan-witch]

Energy Store-House Entities (ESHEs)

Have you ever wished that you had just a bit more magickal energy during a working? Have you ever wished that you could tap into an energy reserve to help out with a healing? Well now you can, if you create an Energy Store-House Entity (ESHE). An ESHE's sole purpose is to collect, store, and distribute energy on demand. This type of entity is created to store energy that is given to it at times when you feel full of energy or power, but have nothing to do with it. It then collects this energy and stores it, waiting for you to call upon it to deliver the energy back to you. Even if you feed negative energy to it after you have been in an argument, your ESHE could have been instructed, during creation, to remove all emotion from the energy and to store only the pure, raw energy for your use.

You can adapt an ESHE to collect neutral forms of energy, like the light from a lamp being left on when it is not needed, to add to your energy to increase the power available to you. If you do this, it may be a good idea to be very specific as to what type of energy it collects, and how it collects it. There have been some ill prepared magi that have accidentally created energy "vampires" that would collect any type of energy they can, even from people.

You can also use this sort of entity to send energy to other people. If, for example, a friend of yours was just in an accident, you cannot be there for them and you do not have the time or ability to do a full magickal ritual for them, you could, however, send your ESHE to deliver energy to them - it sure "one ups" the typically "I'll light a candle for you" cliche spewed by so many.

~Creating Magickal Entities: A Complete Guide to Entity Creation, by David Michael Cunningham with contributions by Taylor Ellwood and T. Amanda R. Wagener, pages 90 to 91

[les-belles-mecaniques]

1943 Volkswagen KdF-Wagen

KDF Typ 82e, Hermann-Walter Sammlung

[culturadellastrada]

[elizalizo]

Hamburg, Barmbek

07/2024

[raizzersblog]

Manchmal ist es, als würden unsere Gedanken uns gefangen halten, wie ein Anker im Sturm, der uns daran hindert, weiterzuziehen. Wir verlieren uns in ihnen, wie in einem endlosen Labyrinth, und vergessen, dass das Leben nicht nur im Kopf, sondern auch im Herzen stattfindet. Unsere Gedanken sind wie Wellen – manche bringen uns voran, während andere uns zurückziehen. Doch das eigentliche Problem ist nicht das Denken selbst, sondern, dass wir oft vergessen, es ruhen zu lassen. Wenn die Gedanken zu laut werden, ist es vielleicht die Seele, die nach Stille ruft.

[lovejunkie97]

Und dann sagte der alte Mann [...] zu mir: 'Die Selbstliebe ist wie das Meer. Sie ist tief, manchmal unberechenbar, aber immer da, wenn du den Mut hast, in sie einzutauchen. Du kannst nicht erwarten, dass andere sie dir schenken. Du musst lernen, sie in dir selbst zu finden. [...]

Das ist die Lektion, die mir das Leben beigebracht hat. Die Menschen um dich herum werden kommen und gehen. Aber die Liebe, die du für dich selbst empfindest, die bleibt. Egal, wie oft du scheiterst, wie viele Fehler du machst, solange du dir selbst treu bleibst, wird dein Herz immer ein sicherer Hafen sein.'

Chris Bloom - Podcast "Real Talk für deine Seele": Warum sich Verlustangst wie Liebe anfühlt

[unteriors]

Gantt Street, Wagener, South Carolina.

[rockyybeach]

unterschätzte nebeneffekte im leben als einer der drei fragzeichen

- ständiger verlust von kleidern durch zerreißen oder beflecken bei abenteurn

- unerklärliche und unglaubliche fähigkeiten als autofahrer, besonders das talent autos ohne bremsen anhalten zu können (vor allem peter)

- freundeskreis beeinhaltet weltbekannte sportler, künstler, wissenschaftler und kriminelle

- gutes wissen im umgang mit polizei, geheimdiensten und anderen authoritäten

- viel zu viel talent bei entführungen. zu diesem zeitpunkt sind entführungen spaßige miniurlaube mit rätselkick

- komplette kompetenz im erbrecht, vor allem was schätze, rätsel und illegales besitztum betrifft

- fertiges skillset potentieller berufskrimineller zu sein, vor allem sehr gut im einbrechen

- alles schon mal gesehen. alles schon mal erlebt. keine überraschugnen mehr

- viel zu lässiger umgang mit verletztungen oder bedrohungen

[ozu-teapot]

Mais Ne Nous Délivrez Pas Du Mal (Don’t Deliver Us From Evil) | Joël Séria | 1971

Chirashi poster

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

RICHARD WAGENER

Today we present three wood engravings by Northern California engraver and fine press publisher Richard Wagener (b. 1944). Wagener has an undergraduate degree from the University of San Diego and a graduate degree from ArtCenter College of Design. He has been engraving wood for over forty years and his work has been in a number of fine press editions, most notably with Peter Koch in Berkeley and the Book Club of California. In 2006 Wagener established his imprint Mixolydian Editions, to publish fine press editions of his own work, and Magnolia Editions, a fine art print studio in Oakland, California, providing artists with technical expertise and access to advanced printmaking tools. His collaboration with David Pascoe of Nawakum Press earned them the 2016 Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design, and Wagener was also awarded the 2016 Oscar Lewis Award for contributions to the book arts.

The prints shown here are from broadsides included in portfolios of the deluxe editions of Parenthesis. Journal of the Fine Press Book Association. The first, a 2000 engraving entitled Euphorbia halipedicola, was printed at Wagener's Mixolydian Editions in 2015 with Bruce Whiteman's 2002 text Succulent for the portfolio of Parenthesis 29, Autumn 2015. The next two were printed for the portfolio of Parenthesis 24, Autumn 2013: the first, Outlook Juniper (2009) was printed with a text by John Muir at the Havilah Press in Emeryville, California; the next, Koch Peak, with a text by Peter Koch, was printed by Wagener in an edition of 175 copies.

Our run of Parenthesis is another donation from the estate of our dear friend Dennis Bayuzick.  

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick. 

View more posts with wood engravings!

[creepynostalgy]

Catherine Wagener, Jeanne Goupil and Bernard Dhéran in Mais Ne Nous Délivrez Pas Du Mal aka Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1971)

[jasper-pagan-witch]

Servitors as Links

If you have a desire to work with a commonly known spirit, deity, or entity, you can create a personal entity to act as a link with it by developing a name, image, and symbol based on the characteristics of the inspirational subject. You can even decide upon a specific realm of influence based on the general realm of influence of the original spirit or deity. By doing this, you are personalizing a link with the original subject through the creation of a personal entity. From that point on, you can call upon the spirit or deity through the name and symbol that you have designated to elicit a direct response from the desired entity. It is important to remember that you are working with an entity that serves as a link to the spirit or deity and not the spirit or deity itself. After continuous workings, you can, if you so desire, have the entity you created evolve away from the original spirit or deity to become its own independent entity. Then when you work with your entity, you will be working with your entity alone, though it will have gained knowledge and experience through the old link with the spirit or deity.

The same idea can be used to make an entity based on the aspects of a living or dead person. By taking the person's name and personal attributes, a very powerful and viable entity can be formed. This new entity will be linked to both the person and to you, in a similar fashion to an entity providing a link to a deity or spirit. This type of entity, when linked to a living person, can have great and powerful affects upon them. With such a link, an entity can be very useful for works of healing and protection directed at the person to whom it is linked. Of course, you can also use this sort of entity to inflict many dire things upon a person, should you so desire.

~Creating Magickal Entities: A Complete Guide to Entity Creation, by David Michael Cunningham with contributions by Taylor Ellwood and T. Amanda R. Wagener, pages 91 to 92

[computervampir]

Justus Jonas <3 (er ist definitiv nicht für die Flammen im Hintergrund verantwortlich (ist er.))