Week in Review: March 7-13

An overview of my creative works made in the past week.

COLLAGE

Vanity by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn), 2021

Daybreak by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn), 2021

Fleeting Beauty by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn), 2021

Abundance by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn), 2021

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VIDEO

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Hide and Seek by Joan Pope #templeovsaturn #collageart #harvest #mask #sickle #sun

♬ original sound - Joan Pope

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Dark Spirituality by Joan Pope #templeovsaturn #collageart #zodiac

♬ original sound - Joan Pope

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ZINES

My zines Death is Coming and The Saturn Chronicle are back on sale on the Temple ov Saturn Bandcamp.

Death is Coming is a poetry collection I originally published in 2016. This second edition is in zine format and is accompanied with art. Some of the pieces were set to music for the last proper Whip Angels album, Death is Coming. (The Whip Angels was my music project before Temple ov Saturn) You can download the album for free here.

The Saturn Chronicle is an art zine that is enhanced with augmented reality. Each page acts as a trigger for an AR experience. When you scan each page with the free AR scanner, the page with transform with either more art, video, music, or writing.

Year in Review: 2020

Reflections on the past year and thoughts on the future…

This year didn’t turn out the way I anticipated, but I continued with my work and tried to make the best of it. In this post I will highlight some of work I did this year. As social media gets more stifling, I will use this platform more to distribute my work, and in future posts I will also include some of the artwork that I find (i.e. kind of stuff I share on the sexdeathrebirth Twitter) on weekly basis.

Let’s get into 2020…

PUBLICATIONS

The Flowers of Evil

The Flowers of Evil by Joan Pope / Temple ov Saturn

Early in the year, my art book The Flowers of Evil was published by Input Error. This was a collection of collages I made the previous year that illustrated Charles Baudelaire’s infamous poetry collection Les Fleurs du Mal. An accompanying Temple ov Saturn album was also released on tape.

Burning House Press: Sex and Death in The Age of Aquarius

I was a guest editor for the March issue of Burning House Press. The theme was Sex and Death in the Age of Aquarius. I got so many great submissions, check them out here. If the submission didn’t come with art or was art itself, I created the art to accompany the piece. This is a virtual exhibit of the art I made for the issue:

Half Mystic Journal Issue VIII: Sforzando

I had the honor of illustrating the Sforzando issue of the literary magazine Half Mystic Journal. Copies are still available on their website.

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ZINES

Death is Coming

This year I re-published my poetry collection Death is Coming as a zine and included new art work. There are a few copies left on Bandcamp.

The Saturn Chronicle

The Saturn Chronicle is an art zine that is enhanced by augmented reality. At a first glance, it looks like a normal art zine, but by using an AR image scanner, each page is a trigger for more artwork, videos, music, and poetry.

Both zines were reviewed at FLUX web zine. Please check out the review!

(There is also a 360 VR video that goes along with the zine. The best way to view it is by searching for it on YouTube with your VR headset. It just doesn’t have the same effect on a desktop. Search for The Saturn Chronicle VR Meditation on YouTube, or for my channel, Temple of Saturn) (I hate YouTube, but its better for the VR stuff… I use Vimeo for all of my video work)

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MUSIC

Temple ov Saturn Releases in 2020:

The Sacred and The Profane was included on Bandcamp’s The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp: August 2020

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ART

I created approximately 180 collages this year. These are a few of my favorites:

Killing Time by Joan Pope

Rebirth by Joan Pope

The Tower, or The Need for Roots by Joan Pope

Bound by Time by Joan Pope

Spark of Life by Joan Pope

Carrier of Life and Death by Joan Pope

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VIDEO

Some of my favorite videos that I made for my own projects:

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CLOSING THOUGHTS + LOOKING AHEAD:

This is getting really long and while I could keep adding content, I’ll wrap it up. I always have this feeling that I don’t do enough, but then I sit back and try to make these sorts of posts and I realize that the amount of work is overwhelming. I can’t even keep track of it and I created it.

That’s why I’ve been creating an Airtable to catalog ALL of my work. If you are not familiar with Airtable, its a tool to create a searchable database. I still have a long way to go before its complete, but if you have a look, you’ll get the idea. Once I’m done with all the Temple ov Saturn stuff, I will add all the SexDeathRebirth stuff, all of the recordings I ever published as Whip Angels, Temple ov Saturn, Pope Joan II, blacktantra, all my collaborations, publications, performances, commissions, photos, etc… Check it out here.

(I also want to have ALL of my work thus far printed in a catalog/reference style book merely to preserve my work in print. Then add new volumes to it each year.)

I have some cool commissions already on the table for early 2021 that I’m excited about. I went into 2020 thinking it was going to be a really big year for me, and at the start, it seemed like it would have been. The pandemic, the lockdowns, the economic turmoil put a damper on that. I think the hardest part was feeling like I spent years building up to this point in my career and then it came to a screeching halt. But hey, I’m still breathing. I have no expectations for 2021. I’m simply going to continue my work and hope for the best.

Thanks to everyone who has generously supported my work and to all of those who paid attention. There is much more to come. Be well in 2021.

This week between Christmas and New Year’s I’m taking off to relax, spend time with my family, organize, and prepare for 2021. So no creative works have been made this week. I’ll be back to work in January.

Blessings to all,

Joan

Week in Review: September 13-19

An overview of my creative works made in the past week.

ZINES & PRINTS

Zines and Prints are finally here!

After a long wait, the Temple ov Saturn merch is finally available. Get it now on Bandcamp.

The Saturn Chronicle Zine No. 1 is an augmented reality enhanced zine. At first glance, it appears to be an art zine, but the AR image reader will reveal bonus videos, art, text, and music. The zine also comes with a download for my latest album, Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy.

Death is Coming is a revised second edition of my 2016 poetry collection. This edition includes art and you will also receive a download code for music that went with the original release.

The Tower print is a special edition print on metal. Its really beautiful! A special limited edition of 5.

The Ankh Sanctuary and Mechanical Angel prints are signed and numbered limited editions of 20.

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MUSIC

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VIDEO

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COLLAGE

Persephone by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)

Coming Soon: Death is Coming and The Saturn Chronicle

Coming Soon: Death is Coming and The Saturn Chronicle

I’ve been busy preparing for the release of my two latest zines. Instead of my usual public output, I’ve been finalizing the details for these zines. They’ve already been printed and they are ready to go, but last week through now, I was making some last minute changes to the AR elements.

The Saturn Chronicle, at first glance, is an art zine. However, it is enhanced with various augmented reality elements. By using an AR scanner, the pages come alive with videos, more art, poetry, and music. Its been an ambitious project. It will come with a download with a new Temple ov Saturn album. If I have time, I want to make a VR video to accompany it as well.

Death is Coming is a revised second edition of my poetry collection that was originally published in 2016. This time around, its presented as a zine opposed to a book, and I added art to it. I felt like the original version didn’t really do the collection justice. This new and improved edition is much better. I will most likely include a download to the The Whip Angels album that accompanied the original book release. I may include some remixes too..

Both zines have been held up from being released because I am waiting on some art prints to arrive that will also be for sale. I anticipate some people wanting both the zines and some prints, so I’ve waited to list them for sale together so they will only have to pay shipping for one package. I also don’t want to list the prints before inspecting them. As soon as I have them in my possession, all of these items will be available for sale on my Bandcamp.

Going forward, I have some other ideas for zines, so let me know what you think.

Trailer for The Saturn Chronicle

Trailer for Death is Coming