The Psychotronic Flowers grew out of my collaboration with visionary artist Paul Laffoley, when I produced an edition of radionic devices based on his 1998 design for the Hieronymus Box Two (see my documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyOxZ_KkaSM). Paul himself drew from a long lineage of psychotronic inventors dating back to the 19th century.
I also had the privilege of visiting Duncan Laurie, author of The Secret Art: A Brief History of Radionic Technology for the Creative Individual. In his home in Machiasport, Maine, I saw an extraordinary archive of vintage psychotronic devices, a treasure chest of functional metaphysical machines.
Wilhelm Reich was another influence. The concept of Orgonite, a material created by embedding metal shavings and quartz crystals in resin, is said to amplify or transmute subtle energies. I learned to manufacture it and began embedding it in my own devices.
My personal sigil is the crow. If I have a spirit animal, that is it. The crow appears as signature, as guardian, as pattern seer.
I do not yet know how the Psychotronic Flowers will evolve.
At the moment, they are a bridge, a machine, a portal, an art-ifact.
