These are two gorgeous prints that I had made up of Manson many years ago, which I've chosen to photograph in celebration of his birthday. When I was rushing to release The 7 of 9 (also another birthday present for him this year), I reaized I needed a print of this in order to properly promote it and it was magical to remember that years ago I had printed it casually for fun and kept it in my sentimental box.
As Marilyn Manson's name has been progressively cleared more and more from false allegations through his criminal investigation being completed and deemed insufficient for criminal charges, and so much more, the themes of my art about him are transforming along with it. The MMII has been my art piece which explored his innocence, but now it will be transforming into a compendium that even more centrally just celebrates his art.
As mentioned in the MMII, the album HOLY WOOD is rich with Iboga addiction recovery themes rooted largely in the Bwiti religion of South Africa where this psychedelic plant medicine is traditonally practiced. Ibogaine is the more famous derivative of the whole form, Iboga, the root of a tree - which cures addiction to hard drugs like cocaine, meth, and opiates.
As a birthday announcement this year for Manson, I'd like to announce that the series of addiction recovery themes that I've found in HOLY WOOD will be made into a beautiful, ornamental and very zen style of card set. In contrast with my recently release 7 of 9 system, this will be the simplest and easiest card set to work with, themed to work compatibly with people suffering from trauma and addiction as something soothing, beautiful, and non-demanding as a practice. At the same time, it will appeal to anyone.
I will also be creating a series of lyric interpretation essays in the UNITY LIFE Archive, which will each explore in fullest inspirational detail just how it is that I found these incredible meanings in the songs from HOLY WOOD. The card set will still resonate and work beautifully for people with learning disabilities who don't really read at all. It will be so ornamental and inspiring — a great meditative altar item. This year, sometime soon, I'd like to create the first essay as a late birthday gift to Manson, to kick off the series. By next year on Manson's birthday, I'd love to see the designs and numerological layout for the cards completed.
Another announcement for his birthday also. This part is partially secret until it comes out, and yet when it does, we will see there's a huge layer of Manson style of comedy within this, and I think he'll find it hilarious. Regardless, with the joke not present yet : I will be creating a hand-made version of The MMII : Marilyn Manson Is Innocent in gorgeous book format, as the PDF for The MMII, which will exactly match to the image you see here of one that I created of FACET 1(73), the core FACET of The 72 FACETS (IN 144) series. The MMII will be available for free in readable PDF format for the first time ever, rather than just as a video, and will be gorgeously available to buy as a legacy arts relic of the days when people actually used to wonder if he was innocent or not.
I have the green ribbon and green duct tape in now, and it just has to be formatted onto PDF. From there, it won't actually take too long to print it up and hand bind it with tape into a green folder, backed with bristol board, using the green duct tape to decorate the edges, and the ribbon to close the pretty book 💚💚
Here are the original notes that were shown to Marilyn Manson with great love and enthusiasm by his wife Lindsay herself, which explain the addiction recovery themes that the card set will be based on :
Iboga Traditional Themes Found in HOLY WOOD
- “Shamanic Death”, a form of ego or “false-self” disillusionment / shedding. (Enlightenment related).
- Grounding (In HOLY WOOD inc. Earth connection, respect for nature, ecological mindset; Also much more re: strategies for getting grounded).
- Empathy > The wisdom not to cause harm / go through with violent acts. Also, similar : respect for nature.
- Ancestral roots (In HOLY WOOD : parents, previous generation, early humans, original God).
Iboga & General Addiction Recovery Themes in HOLY WOOD
- Self-preservation : The avoidance of death or the replacement of a potential death scenario.
- Self-preservation : Removing oneself from / avoiding abusive relationships or high risk scenarios
- Education about abuse, constructively designed for healing impact
- Overcoming shame (leading to self-esteem).
- Overcoming dissociation (awareness expanding / realization).
- Reordering the raw material of existing negative life circumstances into a healing design.
- Acknowledgement of a diverse full spectrum of many different forms of addiction.
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