Gratis Inngang
accusations and proclamations of witchcraft
I’m beside myself today, eyes wide, that people still believe they have mystical powers. Kid you not, I have met people who are excited to proclaim they are witches, which seems to hold a neuvo-particular badge of privilege and ignorance to the violence committed against people who had no other way to explain their experience and were vilified for “creating” storms.
More than a few times I have been, assumed jokingly, called a witch. I did not actually think it is funny, nor believe I am, was, or whatever…but went along laughing because the immense weight of grief and things to be sad about in the world have me hunting not for witches or devils but things to laugh about.
As it turns out, my friend Francesco was telling me about a new layer to the Afjoradance performance video piece, made in 2019 , with the encouragment of my mentor John, known for giving me a lot of life lessons and the raw amber I wear everyday upon my zyphoid process. Both friends are knowledgable on histories I find complicated, fascinating, and as I always find history to be: relevant today. As much as the not-so-new-age manifesting wizardry proclaims to collapse time-space by being in the now, the past is not only with us by mind memory, but somatic resonance. One cannot just wish the past away, or the future those actions create. Though I have met some folks who claim to be able to remote-view or bend spoons…..gratis inngang is not about spoons but rather a site, I found written about on Emma’s blog, The Hidden North, where she writes:
In Vardø you can visit Steilneset Memorial, which opened in 2011 to commemorate the victims of the witchcraft trials. The memorial was jointly commissioned by the town of Vardø, Finnmark County, the Varanger Museum and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration as part of the development of the National Tourist Routes in Norway. The memorial was designed by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois and Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. The long timber walkway has 91 randomly placed windows representing those executed, each one accompanied by a text explaining each person. The second building has a metal chair with perpetual flames projecting through its seat.
The attraction is open 24-7 and is free. When you step inside, be sure to look by the door. They have booklets with English translations of all the womens testimonies.
Further reading in The Scientific American https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/medieval-witch-hunts-influenced-by-climate-change/
In conclusion, when people want to know what an artwork is about, where it comes from, it’s a bit exhausting to have to explain myself all the time, though I do try, often to the exhaustion of the listener…which is if you really want to know, it will take time (2019 to now is 5 years) and a lot of discussion to find out, and I am not sure we do have all the time in the world…which is why I am sharing this post, gratis, with the request you consider becoming a paid subscriber, so I can continue to do the time consuming research to let you know…artists aren’t witches, or at least I’m not…but that whatever I have “conjured” came from something I sensed ‘in the air’ so to speak…and it’s not just made up, it might be extracted resonances from history still lingering.
Yeah….that’ might be pretty far out thinking ;) But so is Jupiter and apparently that planet’s magnetics help keep Earth from being pummeled by space rocks in concert with the iron core and radiation from the sun.
It’s a lucky day to be alive.