An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
First Light by Joan Pope, 2022
The Space in Between by Joan Pope, 2022
Preserve Knowledge by Joan Pope, 2022
Dream Within A Dream by Joan Pope, 2022
Week in Review: June 12-18
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Guided Flight by Joan Pope, 2022
Eros by Joan Pope, 2022
Sapphic Visions by Joan Pope, 2022
Create Destroy by Joan Pope, 2022
VIDEO
Week in Review: June 5-11
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Spiritual Wisdom by Joan Pope, 2022
The Seer by Joan Pope, 2022
Temportal by Joan Pope, 2022
History by Joan Pope, 2022
VIDEO
Week in Review: May 29-June 4
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Tribute to Clarity by Joan Pope, 2022
A New Way of Seeing by Joan Pope, 2022
The Androgyne (Genius and Muse) by Joan Pope, 2022
Mommy Saturn by Joan Pope, 2022
VIDEO
PHOTO
Selene by Joan Pope, 2022
Month in Review: May 2022
An overview of my creative works made in the past month.
MUSIC
Temple ov Saturn - High Planes Drifter
This month I released High Planes Drifter on Bandcamp. Added a lap steel to the mix of instruments I use for sampling on this one. And this one features some synth additions from Dead Editor.
Tracklist for Temple ov Saturn - High Planes Drifter
COLLAGE
My collage output this month seems sparse, but it wasn’t. I created 12 pieces that will be featured in next issue of The Demented Goddess. Stay tuned for its release in June.
The following are the the pieces I made outside of the submission.
Under the Influence by Joan Pope, 2022
Spheres of Influence by Joan Pope, 2022
Mercury by Joan Pope, 2022
Discipline by Joan Pope, 2022
Drifting by Joan Pope, 2022
PHOTO
Joan Pope, 2022
Joan Pope, 2022
Joan Pope, 2022
Joan Pope, 2022
Joan Pope, 2022
VIDEO
Week in Review: February 28-March 5
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
The Sacred and The Profane by Joan Pope, 2022
Hades by Joan Pope, 2022
The Beginning by Joan Pope, 2022
Let The One Who Is Thirsty Come by Joan Pope, 2022
VIDEO
This week was the premiere of a video I edited for Gwenno’s new single, An Stevel Nowydh.
PHOTO
Diana by Joan Pope, 2022
ETC…
Year in Review: 2021 (Part 1: Collage)
An overview of my creative works made in the past year.
It’s hard to believe 2021 is coming to a close. As I mentioned last week, I have a lot going on in my personal life (buying a house, packing/moving, commercial work, and of course, I will be spending time with my family for the holidays). These last couple weeks of the year are best suited for reflection rather than trying to start something new. With that said, I will break up my Year in Review reflection into ~3 parts. This is Part 1.
COLLAGE
The following are selected collage works that I created in 2021. This selection demonstrates what I think are my strongest pieces, either, but also some of my personal favorites.
Vision and Perceptual Limits by Joan Pope, 2021
Allegory of Beauty by Joan Pope, 2021
Still Just A Rat In A Cage by Joan Pope, 2021
The Great God Pan is Dead by Joan Pope, 2021
How To Grow by Joan Pope, 2021
Story of the i by Joan Pope, 2021
All is Vanity by Joan Pope, 2021
Father Time II by Joan Pope, 2021
Bad Girl by Joan Pope, 2021
Allegory of the Cave by Joan Pope, 2021
Make Love Not War Between the Sexes by Joan Pope, 2021
Samsara by Joan Pope, 2021
Allegory of the Future by Joan Pope, 2021
The God of New Beginnings by Joan Pope, 2021
Anima and Animus by Joan Pope, 2021
Gnosis by Joan Pope, 2021
Vanitas by Joan Pope, 2021
Journey of the Soul by Joan Pope, 2021
The Interior Castle by Joan Pope, 2021
Illumination by Joan Pope, 2021
Hecate by Joan Pope, 2021
Genius by Joan Pope, 2021
Capricorn Rising, Capricorn Moon by Joan Pope, 2021
Week in Review: November 7-13
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Father Time II by Joan Pope, 2021
Vision and Perceptual Limits by Joan Pope, 2021
Temple ov Saturn - Seeing What Remains EP
Temple ov Saturn - Seeing What Remains, a new EP available now on Bandcamp.
Its been a couple months since I released something. This was kinda spur of the moment, but my albums usually are. Planning on releasing an album in early 2022.
VIDEO
NFTs
An updated trailer for some of my art that is on Algorand via Dartroom.
ETC…
There’s a lot going on, things are moving quickly.. but I’ll tell you more when the dust settles a bit.
I’m booking video work for January - February -March. If you are interested in a music video, event trailer, book trailer, any kind of product/promotional video, etc.. shoot me an email. My email address is in my link below.
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Week in Review: October 24-30
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Mother Nature by Joan Pope, 2021
Angel of Death by Joan Pope, 2021
St. Catherine of Siena by Joan Pope, 2021
Illumination by Joan Pope, 2021
The Alchemist by Joan Pope, 2021
VIDEO INSTALLATION
This weekend is the Fall Art Crawl at Garner Arts Center. I have a video installation of a few of my video works. This was a promotional trailer I made previewing some of the pieces.
These are 2 other promotional videos I made:
NFTs
ETC…
Behind the scenes…
Many thanks to Garner Arts Center and Haiti Cultural Exchange for hosting the Fall Art Crawl and having me be part of it. It was an honor to be included among so many amazing artists and performers. Thanks to the artists at Garner who participated in the open studios, I discovered many talented local artists. The exhibit of Jonathan Demme’s collection of Haitian art was really impressive! You can view it online here.
Some stills from the installation:
Week in Review: April 18-24
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Always Connected by Joan Pope, 2021
Phoenix Rising by Joan Pope, 2021
No Turning Back by Joan Pope, 2021
VIDEO
MUSIC
I am still finalizing my next album, Quartet For The End of Time, but in the meantime check one of the tracks from the album:
ETC…
I haven’t been feeling well, but I’m hoping this will be resolved soon. My next Temple ov Saturn album will be out soon.
Week in Review: February 21-27
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Story of the I by Joan Pope, 2021
In The Hot Seat by Joan Pope, 2021
Consume by Joan Pope, 2021
Knowledge of Higher Worlds by Joan Pope, 2021
VIDEO
@templeovsaturn Re-Emergence by Joan Pope #templeovsaturn #collageart #skull #saturn #death #rebirth
♬ original sound - Joan Pope
@templeovsaturn The Alchemist by Joan Pope #templeovsaturn #collageart #alchemist #mysticalart #spirituality
♬ original sound - Joan Pope
@templeovsaturn Pressing Forward To The Boundaries of Death by Temple ov Saturn / Joan Pope #joanpope #templeovsaturn #drone #experimentalmusic
♬ original sound - Joan Pope
@templeovsaturn In The Hot Seat by Joan Pope #templeovsaturn #collageart #hotseat #newsmedia
♬ original sound - Joan Pope
@templeovsaturn In Praise of Bacchus #joanpope #bacchus #bacchante #typeonegative
♬ In Praise of Bacchus - Type O Negative
@templeovsaturn Cult of the Dead by Joan Pope #templeovsaturn #socialmedia #technology #friends #irl #family #isolation #celebration #death #life #sexdeathrebirth
♬ original sound - Joan Pope
@templeovsaturn The Cosmic Joke by Joan Pope #templeovsaturn #sexdeathrebirth #cosmicjoke #samsara #death
♬ original sound - Joan Pope
ETC
I also was working on a few commissioned pieces this week that will be coming out soonish.
I released my first NFT recently and I have another scheduled to drop tomorrow. I will slowly be adding more pieces so if you are into cryptoart, visit my page on KnownOrigin.
Stay tuned for some new music and my next installment of the Love Sex Zodiac: Pisces mix that will be released this coming week.
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.
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)
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
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
VIDEO
Some of my favorite videos that I made for my own projects:
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: November 22-28
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Entropy by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Meet The New Misogyny, Same As The Old Misogyny by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
The Fog of War by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
The Gift, or Mother Earth by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
MUSIC
Temple ov Saturn - Creation / Devotion
UPCOMING, ETC…
Temple ov Saturn - The Rites of Janus: Coming January 2021
A proper album is in the works, scheduled to be released in January 2021.
Week in Review: October 25-31
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Birth of Venus by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Let Light Shine Out of Darkness by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Spark of Life by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Dark Side of the Womb by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
The End of the World by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
VIDEO
Week in Review: July 19-25
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
The Spirit of the New Moon by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Contemplation by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Venus by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
The Empress by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Salt and Light by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
VIDEO
Week in Review: June 21-27
An overview of my creative works made in the last week.
COLLAGE
Philosopher Queen by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Grace by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
When I Burn by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
VIDEO
Week in Review: April 19-26
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
Conception by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Become The Mystery by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
New Life by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Foundation by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
COMMISSIONS
Album art for Jet Set Tiger’s single ‘Bluebird’
Week in Review: April 5-11
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
VIRTUAL ART GALLERIES
I found a site that enables me to create virtual art galleries. So far I made a general “best of” Temple ov Saturn gallery, one for the Flowers of Evil series, and another for the art pieces I made for the Burning House Press March 2020 issue. The experience is better on desktop than mobile. Check them out!
PHOTO
Allegory by Joan Pope
Spring 2020 Mix
Cover for the Spring 2020 Mix
I made a mix of some music I like since because ask me pretty often what kind of music Iike. Check it out on Mixcloud.
Tracklist for the Spring 2020 Mix
ETC…
It was mostly a reflective week, I was creating the virtual art galleries and working on new edits of the Death is Coming material. I plan to re-release my poetry book Death is Coming with some minor edits, accompanying artwork, and ideally, with a second “chapter” of new material. I will be working on that in the coming weeks.
Life in quarantine feels better suited to taking stock of what I’ve already done, improving what I’ve already done, than to start entirely new projects. Depending on how long this goes on, I may eventually forge ahead on new projects. There are plenty of ideas brewing…
I hope everyone is doing well, keeping their heads above water.
I am still offering my services as a video editor and artist. Use my contact page to discuss your project and your budget.
Week in Review: March 29-April 4
An overview of my creative works made in the past week.
COLLAGE
The 36 Questions That Lead To Love… by Joan Pope (for Burning House Press)
Fire Water Ghost by Joan Pope (for Burning House Press)
An Ode to Violence by Joan Pope (for Burning House Press)
The Dark Age of Aquarius by Joan Pope (for Burning House Press)
The Song of Sex by Joan Pope (for Burning House Press)
Saturn in Aquarius; or Precession of the Equinoxes by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
MUSIC
Temple ov Saturn - Correspondences
I’ve added a new subscriber exclusive on Bandcamp. This is part of the Flowers of Evil material.
ETC..
My guest editorship at Burning House Press has come to an end! Thanks to everyone who contributed. Check out the issue here.
Week in Review: July 21-27
An overview of my creative works made in the last week.
COLLAGE
Babylon the Great by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Divine Feminine by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Mother by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Opium of the Masses by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
Sanctuary by Joan Pope (Temple ov Saturn)
VIDEO
PHOTO
Sunset, Greene County, NY, 7/27/19 by Joan Pope
Sunset II, Greene County, NY, 7/27/19 by Joan Pope
Sunset with Fire, Greene County, NY, 7/27/19 by Joan Pope
Sunrise, Greene County, NY, 7/28/19 by Joan Pope
My uncle gave me a Polaroid camera when I was in first grade, its one of the earliest gifts I can actually remember receiving. I still have that camera even though I couldn’t get film for it for years. My mom gave me the new version of the same camera last year for Christmas but I hadn’t used it until this past weekend. I always loved the quality of polaroid photos, especially when they become a bit distorted.
VIDEO COMMISSIONS
Video for Set Yourself Aside by Kiss of the Whip
Album teaser music video for Experiment Haywire.
UPCOMING… ETC…
August 17th in Nyack, NY
I’m performing at the opening of Monomer Audio Emporium on August 17th.
Fever Dream, photo by Dead Editor