Cullen Miller and Gabriel Dunne

Claves Angelicæ, 2018

Ink pen drawing made by plotter machine on Bristol paper

11 unique sigils

Size: 138 x 18 cm

Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019

Description:

Claves Angelicæ is a seven-step process to guide one through the process of securely constructing a Word with an ‘Alphabet of Desire.’ This Alphabet of Desire is a mediation with one’s own libidinal framework. Magic has many aspects, but it primarily acts as a dramatized system of psychology. It is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with one’s Will. A magical spell is quite literally the spelling out of a Word. Once the Word is constructed within oneself it is set in motion by bringing it forth into grammar and sound. When completed one must seal it and cast it out into the Ethereum network.

The seven-step process is designed to collect and transmute the participants’ input data into an encrypted message. For the participant to cast their Word they must transmit Ether to a preselected set of charities. Once the spell has been cast and verified by the consensus pool, the transaction signature’s hash is returned, parsed, and passed into a sigil generating algorithm. The participant receives an inked paper talisman authored by a mechanical plotter drawing machine as a tokenized sigil of their spell.