Abandoned Elementary School in Kansas City

On my journey south we (Ammut Aisilinn and myself) crossed all the way west to Kansas City. One of our explorations into the city took us to an abandoned school around 18th & Vine. (Attucks Elementary School) The echoes of children from the past whispering in our ears and staring at us from vacant windows. I imagined this would be the place that VEYASEE was born. A spirit born from the Maleficium Cultus and the unimaginable rites conducted at the school. We noticed a strange circle of concrete spiraling amongst the wild grass now growing, it had burn marks in the center and looked as if rituals with the children had been going on here leading to its possible abandoned state and the eventual moving of the school. In all my research online I could not find out why the school was left abandoned and in such a state. Here are some photos of the abandoned school and I leave it to your own judgement and imagination...

I can leave you though with the ritual words summoning VEYASEE and all the her retinue of child ghosts and malicious eternal child gods.  SSEEE OHSHIMYA VEYASEE HEELLVINISSS SSEEE OHSHIMYA VEYASEE NETERYAMYE SEZAZ 

Trick or Treat (as spirits enter)

Floralia Festival - through the gate from Beltane to Samhain

The beginning of May was a very popular feast time for the Romans. It was devoted primarily to the worship of Flora, the goddess of flowers. It was in her honor a five day celebration, called the Floralia, was held. The five day festival would start from April 28 and end on May 2. The Romans brought in the rituals of the Floralia festival in the British Isles. And gradually the rituals of the Floralia were added to those of the Beltane. And many of today's customs on the May Day bear a stark similarity with those combined traditions.
The tangible and visible dance of life celebrated at Beltane clearly grows from the dissolution, the dance of death and transformation at Samhain.

It is Beltane in the Southern Hemisphere, the season of sweet desire for being. That desire which holds all form together and allows the dance of life. In the Northern Hemisphere it is Samhain, the season of celebrating the falling apart of all form, the end of desire which allows death and transformation.

At these cross-quarters "the veil is thin that divides the worlds."

Recent scientific studies indicate that organic life may be born from inorganic matter. Particles of plasma, normally considered inorganic, can undergo self-organization resulting in helical structures that become charged and are attracted to each other, thus taking on qualities of living matter — they are "autonomous, they reproduce and they evolve".

Secret Springtime Asphyxiation by Scott Ferry
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Thai spirits - Mae Naak

In my research on Thai spirits and possession I ran across this article on the Mae Naak.

There is no Thai who does not know Mae Naak. While mentioning her can make young children run and scream hysterically in the "Nang Naak game", mothers invoke Mae Naak's name to quiet their crying infants; otherwise, the ghost might break their necks and eat their heads with chilly sauce. The gothic tale of Mae Naak Phra Khanong has been filmed more than twenty times; moreover, every one of them is a box-office hit. Thai youths grow up watching her ghostly tale on television.

Whether Nang Naak was a real person or just a fabrication is still as mysterious as the myth itself. There is no historical evidence of her existence. However, most Thais tend to believe her story is genuine, or at least some parts are. Popular legend tells that she was born in the Phra Khanong area of Bangkok about a hundred and thirty years ago during the later period of King Rama IV (1851 - 1868) and died of childbirth complications some eighteen years later in the early part of King Rama V's regime (1868 - 1910). Others assume that she lived during the reign of King Rama III (1841 - 1851). Some believers even date her presence back to more than two hundred years ago in mid-eighteen century Ayutthaya.



article continued here.. http://www.thailandlife.com/thai-culture/nang-nak-a-thai-ghost-story.html

Also more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Nak

Les Méchants Chat Animals - childhood nightmares

Les Méchants Chat Animals by Sébastian Ferry (age: 8)

Les Méchants Chat Animals by Scott Ferry
(Interpretation of my son Sébastian Ferry's childhood drawing "Les Méchants Chat Animals")

In this work I took my son Sebastian Ferry's childhood artwork that he did at age 8 called "Les Mechants Chat Animals" and I reinterpreted this nightmarish dream into my own work for the theme show "A Little Nightmare Grows Up".  This theme show, held at Galerie Le Repaire des 100 Talents in Montreal, invites artists to create an artwork using children's drawings of a nightmare as a source of inspiration. At this show I will be also showing other works that are in the same vein of childhood nightmares and malicious dreams.

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Information for the show:

A Little Nightmare Grows Up @ Le Repaire des 100 talents
From October 6 to 31, 2012
Opening Sunday Oct. 7 from 5pm to 9:30pm

100talents.blogspot.ca
(514)946-9738
5867 St-Hubert, Montreal, QC
(Metro Rosemont)

Post-mortem photography, particularly of children

Post-mortem photography, particularly of children seems to retain a sense of mystery and a doll like atmosphere. There is a sense that the body has become a material to be recreated and dressed much like they would have liked to have seen the child in life. A sort of nostalgic recollection etched into memory.. more real in death then in life. Many comments have been made on the subject.. some related to the fact that these are just dead children.. and that is all.. no sense of putting an atmosphere around it that wasn't there. This is true in a sense.. it is nothing more then that for some people living today (much like an actual haunted house is no more then a house), but back then in the 19th century there was a very big search and quest to see and speak with the dead.. to touch the spirits that seemed to live with us yet separate. Living with the dead was something that was seen by all to be a part of their lives.. and something not to be parted with or thrown aside.. a keep sake... something to hold dear.. There was a sense that the dead bodies retained some sense of soul.. some sort of spirit and atmosphere... a haunted feeling.. a similarity in part to dolls possibly..

- Scott Ferry
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(most of these images may have been seen over and over.. but i picked out certain ones to pinpoint the look and feeling of how close the reference is to : a doll, the look of the living compared to the dead, angelic, a sense of a presence within the body, a haunted atmosphere)

(in this one the girl on the left is dead, the right one is alive)

Drawing in process August 2011

Drawing in process August 2011 (Scott Ferry)