Lexi

♪ Magic in Music — Stone and Clay ♪

Scent formula:

dark woods accord, smoke accord, resin accord, stone accord

For this project, I wrote a poem inspired by Father Serafim’s Arameic singing in the cathedral. This song gave me an impression of something ancient, earthy, ashy, and heavy. It feels intense and full. I imagined jewel tone colors when listening, like emerald green, deep purples and wine reds, and rich indigos.

Stone and Clay

In the cathedral I see you and your

Eyes black blue emerald green

Glistening dripping onto the floor the

Ash creeping into my lungs the sun

Sits on my wrists and burns them

You look at me in an ancient

Language you crumble fold

Burnt paper between the

Knuckles of your fingers the

Bones the songs they crunch

Your ribs the way they

Expand and disappear

All over again

Every night

We walk and graze our palms

On the walls this earth try

to remember the heaviness of this

feeling the way we drown

In ink how we linger in these

Halls the sounds permeating

Every wall sticky and rotting

How you and I have collapsed

Into the crevices the cracks the

Wrinkles in our faces the

Mountains that have blossomed

On our backs

We stand here in the cathedral

And feel the soles of our feet

As they sink into the mud and

Stay there until we are stone

and clay once more

☾ Ritual — Samhain Altar (This is Halloween) ☾

Our altar was meant to honor the Pagan festival of Samhain, the last of the three major harvests and the end/beginning of the wheel of the year. The most sacred festival to the Celtic people, Samhain takes place over the course of three days and celebrates the end of the harvest and summer, the beginning of winter, saying goodbye to the Horned One (sun god) who will be reborn again on Yule, welcoming the goddess, and giving thanks. It is also a time to celebrate and communicate with the dead as it is the time when the veil between this world and the next is the thinnest. In a Neo-Pagan style, we also chose to honor Persephone as she makes her journey to the underworld for the winter.

Scent Formula:

Frankincense incense, Myrrh incense, Apple, Pomegranate, Sunflower, Wet leaves, Dirt, Smoke accord, Dark wood accord, Skin accord

Sound:

Howling dogs

✦ Altar & Magic Potion Challenge — Season of the Witch ✦

For my altar challenge, I was thinking again about the aesthetics of the Samhain ritual and how I could make the altar feel more personal to me. I decided to go about this by making a mini Samhain altar that a young, 70s teen witch might create in her bedroom on her vanity. I tried to tie in a lot of the same elements and objects of the original altar (tablecloth, pumpkins, black stones, bottles, old writings, candles, etc.) with more personalized aesthetic objects, primarily the Rumours album by Fleetwood Mac. I also included my magic potion in the challenge, which I made from port wine, vanilla, brown sugar, balsamic vinegar, and peppermint tea. I put the potion in a hollowed out red apple. In addition, I added the scents dark woods, smoke, stone, and resin around the altar.

Magic Potion Ingredients:
Port wine, Vanilla, Brown sugar, Balsamic Vinegar, Peppermint tea
Scent Formula:
Dark woods accord, Smoke accord, Stone accord, Resin accord
Sound:
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

❀ The Poetry of Longing — “The flower burns on earth” ❀

The flower burns on earth

"You leave again

And I am never ready

I am never prepared

I am always aching

Always swollen

Hurt, touched where only

Scars grow, rotting

I look up towards the sun

And stare until the

Light creates petals

In my vision,

Blurring you from me

I can’t tell if it’s your

Glow or the way my

Eyes melt when

I see you,

But something burns here

A branding on the skin

That is cool to the touch

You live in the clouds

And when I finally feel

I can reach you

You are gone again,

Pulling me up by the

Stem only to crumple me

In your palm

So gently

I hardly notice

I love you, it hurts me

And I love you, I love you

Even when you burn so bright

That the filaments of my skin

Break off like butterfly wings

I love you I love you."

Response to "SONG II THE LORD AMID THE CLOUDS"

Scent formula:
smoke accord, light floral accord

ϟ Sanctuary Part 1 — Adventures on Earth ϟ

For Sanctuary Part 1 I was inspired by the nights during your childhood when it's thunderstorming outside and you seek comfort and shelter inside your bedroom. I also wanted to incorporate the film E.T. The Extra Terrestrial into the project because it's one of my favorite films and one that makes me feel awestruck, safe, and nostalgic for the sanctuary of my earliest years. Outside the fort, I emulated the night by projecting lights and stars.

Scent formula:
Pillow Fort - Skin
Hand-made Reese's Pieces: tinctured Reese's Pieces
Hand-made Popcorn: tinctured buttered popcorn
Sound:
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial score mixed with thunder, night nature sounds, rain

☽ Sanctuary Part 2 — Over the Moon ☽

For my final sanctuary project, I created a safe-space inside of my car, focusing primarily on light and noise. I covered the inside of my trunk with black tablecloths that I adhered glow-in-the-dark stars to. In the passenger and driver's seats I strung lights. To tie in the E.T. component from part 1 of this project, I played a combination of songs from the E.T. score with ambient deep white space sounds (to recreate the feeling of being in space). In the end, the car to me became a safe space (hence the writing of “it’s okay” on the windows). It was warm and bright (as opposed to the freezing cold outside), and the area with the stars in the trunk of the car felt vast and infinite, despite the fact that I was only inside a car.

Scent formula:
Tinctured pennies (metallic smell), Peppermint essential oil, Lemon, Skin accord
Sound:
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial score mixed with ambient deep white space noise

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