https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/82012123904
Ben Jeans Houghton
MEANDERMANCY; LUNA ET JOVE
Meandermancy: Luna et Jove, is a collection of black and white photographs made by night and day in the spirit of adventurous reflection. For as long as I can remember, I have been a meanderer; walking, wandering, wondering. In our relinquishing the linearity of A to B, the wyrd readily rushes to meet us, and the world's symbolic fabric unfurls.
These images were made over two years of wandering my star-spun karmas between Devon and London: through protest camps to free the night skies, nocturnal woods etched by flash, to the torn edge-lands of the coasts opera, and the filthy tarot of the seething metropolis. They were made first, before I knew why, and only later found their belonging beneath this theme of Moon and Jupiter: the reflectivity of Luna's alchemy ambulated by the expansive faith of Jove’s quest to know.
The work speaks to that Möbius garden of time, where futures seed their beginnings. Art often knows before its maker's meaning ripens. These photographs are waymarks from wanderings, traces of a dialogue between light and shadow, fate and curiosity, solitude and the wyrd world that adores our witness when we wander our transits as bodied light.
Gnostic Animist, Artist, Author and Astrologer Ben Jeans Houghton’s multidisciplinary practice spans votive-sculpture, architectural-installation, oneiric film-essay, self-reflexive writing, ritual costume, improvised performance, mantric-glossolalia and esoteric lectures. The work explores and expresses magic; the art of transformation and its methodologies, technologies, agencies, and implications, through art-praxis, as-gnosis, informed by astrological, philosophical, and metaphysical perspectives.
Ben has delivered exhibitions, screenings, presentations, performances and publications internationally in Germany, Greece, Africa, Japan, South Korea, and America and nationally across the UK with CCA, Gymnasium Gallery, Bloc Projects, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Generator Projects, Whitstable Biennale, BFI and Channel Four. Ben has also been commissioned to author and orate esoteric lectures for Trans-States, Astromagia, Occulture and IAAM.