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Omfg I love my job.
02/08/2026

Omfg I love my job.

02/06/2026

Are you February broke? Lakshmi can help with that.

02/04/2026

Grab your horseshoes and rabbits feet! Or don't. Egyptian unlucky days and what to do.

02/02/2026

Is your bagel cursed?

Lol forgive the bedhead... šŸ™ƒšŸ˜…

02/02/2026

Ancient practices for Imbolc.

Keys have a real historical magical and ritual footprint, and it is older and more technical than most modern summaries ...
01/30/2026

Keys have a real historical magical and ritual footprint, and it is older and more technical than most modern summaries care to delve into. So let's explore...

Access, Authority, and ā€œKey-Likeā€ Mechanisms in Ritual Language

Ancient Mesopotamian magic did not employ physical keys as ritual tools. Instead, access and control were enacted through spoken command, ritual sequence, and sanctioned authority. However, the underlying logic of many Mesopotamian rites operates in a way that is structurally analogous to what later cultures would conceptualize as a ā€œkey.ā€

In Akkadian incantation texts, conditions are not overcome through force. They are opened, closed, released, or sealed through precise language and correct procedural order. Illnesses have mouths. Demons have paths. Fates have doors. These images are poetic, but they also function as precise technical language for how change is allowed to happen.

Ritual authority in Mesopotamia was tied to office and ritual legitimacy. The priest was the mechanism that allowed access. Correct recitation, timing, and purity functioned as the deciding factors that determined whether a boundary could be crossed.

In this sense, Mesopotamian incantations act as conceptual keys. They do not break barriers. They satisfy the conditions required for a barrier to open or close lawfully. The efficacy of a rite depended on sequence and correctness rather than intensity or desire.

This framework appears repeatedly in exorcistic and healing texts, where the goal is not to destroy an affliction but to close its road, loosen its grip, or release its hold. These operations mirror the logic of a lock and key system without materializing it as an object.

Later cultures would externalize this logic into physical symbols like keys, seals, and tokens of authority. In Mesopotamia, the ā€œkeyā€ remained embedded in language, role, and ritual structure itself.

Visit us to unlock the older magicks.

01/30/2026

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Check out our previous reel for info on how to think your own thoughts for once.

01/29/2026

There's not an original thought in your head.
That's ok. We can fix it.

Untitled (Vector of Inevitability)Artist: TaMedium: 2x4 untreated pine, beak interventionTime: 2025 - 2026$25,000This wo...
01/26/2026

Untitled (Vector of Inevitability)
Artist: Ta
Medium: 2x4 untreated pine, beak intervention
Time: 2025 - 2026
$25,000

This work marks a significant moment in Taā€™s ongoing inquiry into force, directionality, and the unstable boundary between intention and compulsion.

Carved exclusively through avian intervention, Untitled (Vector of Inevitability) presents an arrow form extracted rather than imposed.

Ta does not add. Ta removes.

The gesture is violent, precise, and irrevocable. As with much of Taā€™s practice, the final form emerges through sustained pressure rather than planning, resulting in a work that feels both inevitable and barely survived.

The choice of untreated pine is deliberate. The material resists polish, refuses permanence, and retains the memory of every strike. Viewers are invited to consider not only the arrow, but the absence around it. What has been lost so that motion could exist.

Ta, a citron cockatoo, is known for an unpredictable and confrontational methodology. His practice embraces volatility, sudden mood shifts, and acts of destruction that border on ecstatic clarity. Like many of historyā€™s most important artists, Ta works at the edge of patience, safety, and control.

Provenance:
Private studio
domestic environment
United States
Produced during an unannounced working period following prolonged vocalizations and object rejection

Acquired directly from the artistā€™s handler

No prior exhibition
No restorations
No apologies

This piece is accompanied by an informal certificate of authenticity, a feather adjacent to the work at time of completion, and a refusal to reproduce the gesture.

Condition:
Complete. Stable. Conceptually aggressive.
Patron responsible for final display (stands, frames, etc).

Notes:
The artist does not accept commissions.
The artist may scream at collectors.
The artist will bite if provoked, and unprovoked.

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As of right now we're still planning on opening. Unless it gets too crazy. Updates to follow.
01/25/2026

As of right now we're still planning on opening. Unless it gets too crazy. Updates to follow.

TOILET CANDLES ARE BACK!*Feral laughter*
01/24/2026

TOILET CANDLES ARE BACK!

*Feral laughter*

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