-:- salviaspace project news and updates -:-

Welcome to the :: salviaspace :: project news and updates page, otherwise known as the blog. Here you can read updates about what's new on the site, see new sketches of forthcoming work, as well as find out about the progress of the book, including cover and page design previews and news about the printing process. If you have any questions or would like to receive occasional updates via email about the project, then please do feel free to contact me. Thank you.

Pipiltzin
Friday 25th July 2008

The first image of a second video poem, entitled Pipiltzin which is intended to explore the salvia sexual dimension. A gallery of images was on the previous site of :: salviaspace :: but I feel this seldom-spoken-about aspect is worth exploring as part of the territory of the plant...

Bridge Of Tea
Friday 25th July 2008

A new large format work, which continues the Bridges series begun in 2006. This explores the bridge to salviaspace via the medium of tea, which tends to engender few visionary aspects but is an excellent aid to stillness and deep meditation. It will be uploaded fully in due course. A limited edition print will soon become available.

Envaginate
Monday 21st July 2008

A new animated short film is now uploaded in the Film section, inspired by the sense of maternal warmth during a salvia journey. It takes the form of a video poem and is expected to be the first in a series using imagery from other aspects of the :: salviaspace :: project.

New Site Uploaded
Saturday 19th July 2008

The new site is now online. Updates to follow will include the animation for Space Training/Portals Inwards, more planned texts in the Words section and a selection of slideshows in the Film section, the first one to be called Envaginate...

How The Salviaspace Site Used To Be
Friday 18th July 2008

     
   Summer 2005 to late 2006            2006 until summer 2008

Sage Spirit - Another new(ish) book release
Thursday 17th July 2008

Another salvia-inspired book I have just ordered is Sage Spirit - Salvia Divinorum and the Entheogenic Experience. Daniel Siebert (website here) reports on Amazon that it contains much sage wisdom, a fine recommendation from one of the leaders in salvia divinorum reseach worldwide. Daniel Siebert's long-awaited book Divine Sage doesn't seem near to publication as yet...

Peopled Darkness
Thursday 17h July 2008

I've just bought Peopled Darkness - A Perceptual Transformation through Salvia Divinorum by J.D. Arthur from Amazon. I think it's a fairly new release, or at least I've only just noticed it. Essentially it documents his transfromation at the hands of La Maria from everyday folk to 'thoughtless awareness' and an intriguing inner landscape. I started reading it a few days ago and first impressions are quite good. The author is from New England (the area in the US, not the Old England I'm from...) and he's got quite a philosophical and descriptive angle on the besagement process - certainly some of his descriptions really chimed with me, and as an artist with a fairly clumsy approach to prose I admire his concise work here.

Useful Links
Tuesday 15th July 2008

Daniel Siebert's Salvia Divinorum Research & Information Centre.
Erowid's Salvia Vault.
D.M. Turner's Salvinorin: The Psychedelic Essence of Salvia Divinorum.

New Salviaspace Site Soon
Tuesday 15th July 2008

Well I'm just about to head off for a relaxing holiday in southern Crete to enjoy the sun, hill walking and wandering around Minoan sites and secluded beaches, but before I go I will upload the new :: salviaspace :: site, which includes a whole set of new galleries, some old animated short films going back to 2006 and a clearer presentation of the intended book which is the ultimate goal of this project. It also includes this blog.

Despite uploading the site now I intend to promote it when I get back from Crete. It's no use promoting something when you're not around to answer emails about it from interested (and interesting!) folks...