Panik Bedlam

I Finished the initial carving of a project I’ve been working on. A ritual item I’m carving from a block of 4×4 I sawed off of a larger plank. I posted a picture of it when I only had two sides done in an earlier post, but now all the main carving is done. However, I still need to do some more specific shaping of the block, cleaning and deepening the carvings, and sanding it down.

once all the carvings look deep enough and all the block shaping is done, I’ll be filling the cuttings with colored wax (i.e. crayons) and then give it another sanding to remove any stray wax. Then I’ll be painting the sides with a dye, wrapping the grooves with gold wire and then sealing it.

I’ve been considering putting steel bolts on the East and West sides of the block, not only to anchor the gold wire; But also doing it in such a way that electrifying the block would create an electromagnetic field. I’ll need to do some research before deciding and it would likely require the inclusion of copper into the system.

Although this would likely not have any scientific or engineering use beyond creating interesting shapes with iron filings, this would turn the device into a sort of “wishing machine” with the block becoming the platform for the wishing focus. If this shows results it may end up the component of a larger device. If you want to know what a wishing machine is, here is William Burroughs talking about it. https://youtu.be/Q9kwcJpX_Zg

I’ve been a bit preoccupied with infilstructure stuff behind the scenes, but I’m hoping to get a better set up and delivery system for my work.  In the mean time, I’ve been practicing my music more and been fooling around with the Uke for a few months.  This is an arrangement of a Tom Waits song that I put together. Its not the whole song, but I’ll record a better version when I’m better at playing.

These are the pieces that I just randomly decided to work on one day, and made me decide to focus more on my fine art. They’re just pencil on paper, and show my cubist influences, particularly Georges Braque.

A ritual item I’m carving from a block of 4×4 I sawed off of a larger plank. It will look much different when it’s complete.  After carving and shaping of it, I’ll be filling the cuttings with coloured wax, painting the sides with a dye, wrapping the grooves with gold wire and then sealing it. 

Its winter and cold and I’m tired of it.  so here I am, thinking of summer and summer time fun.

  This is the first of what will likely be intermittent blog posts  for Pateon. I will eventually try to produce with a regular sechudle. Once I have a number of patrons, I will occasionally respond to questions and comments based on these posts as I am able.  

I am making this firs Blog post Public since it outlines a number of projects and goal I hope to achive with patron support, but later “working blogs” will be Patrons Only.

Presently I am trying to develop a work schedule around final production of several nearly finished projects. Some of these, It is monetary reasons holding back production, trying to pay contributors to the A&ON (Art & Occult Nonsense) books to justify their time writing on these complex projects. Others are simply held up by labor intensive processes such as final layout, review and editing which is a bit tedious and time consuming, which has been a major hold up on the release of “Hel’s Song Vol 1.” because the scale of the project and its implementation was far larger of a task than I expected.  

These factors as they are, most of these projects should be released this year and I am making a significant effort to organize an infrastructure that will help me sustain the production of my projects and other art. This all said, here is the list of what I am hoping to accomplish this year: 

 -Release of “Hel’s Song Vol. 1”, an illustrated post-modern retelling of Viking myth spoken from the perspective of the Goddess of Death. 

 -Rev. Panik’s A&ON Presents Vol. 3: Wage Earners of Sin – A sort of Bizarre Grimoire based on Ancient books and surreal sensibilities that show both the dark and light side of dark age demons. The art by Panik is given context set against modern fables written by Ava Mailloux (Contributed to Masters of the Mythic Vol. 1). 

 -New Edition of A&ON Vol. 1: Elementals – The Earlier edition written w/ Galena Storme was well received but some felt it lacked explanation and needed some formatting changes for readability. to correct this, this expanded volume will not only include several more colorful diagrams and text, but an additional 20 (perhaps 20+) new illustrations. It is my hope to provide a new edition in this model for Vol. 2 at some point in the following year as well. 

 -Discount editions of A&ON: It is my hope to release smaller Black and white editions of A&ON 1-3 by the years End. Some people who are interested in these books have had a hard time affording the larger size full color art book editions. so in addition to the expanded, high end revised (perhaps even hard cover) editions, I will be trying to release more standard book fair with volumes being at least half the cost of their full colour counterparts. I will also be trying to develop Colour Ebook editions as well. 

 -Masters of the Mythic: So far I’m getting good response but I’ve had trouble getting the word out about my quarterly illustrated pulp journal of post modern fantasy. I am trying to streamline the release process as I work on releasing a second Volume in April, and I’m hoping to continue this project on time, producing 4 issues by the end of the year. The book will hopefully have a simultaneous print/ebook release, and I will try to make all digital copies available to most Patrons above the $5 mark and expand this as my support increases.  

-Studio: It is my hope to get enough supporters that I can acquire a studio space. My lack of dedicated space and supplies limits the amount of work that I am capable of doing. I would love to be doing painting available for sale and even patron rewards, but without the facilities to do so its just wishing.   

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  An Illustration for the upcoming Masters of the Mythic Vol 3 (Vol. 1 is available now on Lulu.com, Search Panik Bedlam   or as an ebook on Amazon.com ).  This is from the third part of Beyond the Dreams of space.  I’m a little ahead on production of the second issue, (Available in April) so I’m getting ahad on the art.  Please help support my art and get access to addtional content by donating a dollar. 

   An Illustration for the upcoming Masters of the Mythic Vol 3 (Vol. 1 is available now on Lulu.com, Search Panik Bedlam   or as an ebook on Amazon.com ).  This is from the third part of Beyond the Dreams of space.  I’m a little ahead on production of the second issue, (Available in April) so I’m getting ahad on the art.  Please help support my art and get access to addtional content by donating a dollar.