NIGREDO
The Mardi Gras CycleFebruary 2026 marks my second Mardi Gras, and my first as a resident of New Orleans; a guest in the House of the Rising Sun. It also marks the first year of my exploration of the alchemical Magnum Opus.
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LES SÉANCES
“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.”
Deuteronomy 18:9-12
What is a séance if not the invitation to experience something beyond the bounds of humanity?
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DELTA OF VENUS
“I was sure the old man knew nothing about the beatitudes, ecstacies, dazzling reverberations of sexual encounters. Cut out the poetry was his message. Clinical sex, deprived of all the warmth of love—the orchestration of all the senses, touch, hearing, sight, palate; all the euphoric accompaniments, background music, moods, atmosphere, variations—forced him to resort to literary aphrodesiacs.
‘We could have bottled better secrets to tell him, but such secrets he would be deaf to. But one day when he reached saturation, I would tell him how he almost made us lose interest in passion by his obsession with the gestures empty of their emotions, and how we reviled him, because he almost caused us to take vows of chasitity because what he wanted us to exclude was our own aphrodesiac—poetry.”
from the Preface to “Delta of Venus” by Anaïs Nin.
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SKETCHBOOK
You have to fight against the constant digitization of your life, one hard-fought-and-won page of a sketchbook at a time.
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INHERITANCE
Illustrations from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
February 2019 - January 2021
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NO MOURNING /
UNCATEGORIZED IMAGESThis is where small or otherwise abandoned projects live.
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@aphrodesiaaa
New Orleans, LA
APHRODESIAAA FOR ALL AILMENTSSS
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READING LIST1. The Wax Child - Olga Ravn
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Powers of Horror - Julia Kristeva
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The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
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Sex-Pol Essays, 1929-1934 - William Reich
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Francesca Woodman: The Artist Books
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Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire - Anastasiia Fedorova
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Porn: An Oral History - Polly Barton
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The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
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Thee Psychick Bible - Genesis P. Orridge
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Horror in Architecture - Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Sing
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Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex - Sophia Giovannitti
COME ROT AT THE DEVIL’S GLENAll words and images © C.C. @aphrodesiaaa, 2015-2026.