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Viridis Genii Symposium: A Brainscan Zine Supplemental

In 2023 I started a GoFundMe for my birthday so I could attend the Viridis Genii Symposium in the woods in Washington state. I had wanted to attend for years but it was cost prohibitive for me then, so I asked for help and offered this zine in exchange afterwards. There is no VGS, or what I've started calling it "Wizard Camp", this year and I'm sad about it. It's been 3 years and now I'm offering the zine to the general public! The Viridis Genii Symposium is a multidisciplinary event at a literal camp where you stay in cabins and go swimming in a lake, take walks in a northwest forest, or even have a camp fire (fire bans permitting). There are lectures and workshops on plant magic, folklore, and all the occult goodness around that. There have been attendees and lecturers from all over the country and all over the world. It is truly a special experience. It is supposed to return next year and I'm really excited about it. Viridis Genii Symposium a Brainscan Zine Supplemental is a perzine documenting a four-day event at a camp near Olympia, Washington.This zine explores plant magic, animism, ancestral reclamation, and the process of f "making room" in the vessel of your own practice. This zine is my personal record of diving into world of the "Green Gnosis." From the alchemy of hand-made paper and the folklore of "elf-shot" in Appalachia to the plant-spirit traditions of the Serbian Orthodox folk context, I document the lectures, workshops, and communal discovery found in plants and people. Format: 8.5" x 5.5" (Half-letter) 28 pages green-on-black paper covers with full-color inserts.

old patches!

"copy and destroy" from alex wrekk at the mr. roboto project (iirc?) in pittsburgh, jan. 2003. possibly my first time meeting a fellow non-local zinester irl?

"gather ye blossoms while ye may" from a punk busker/street vendor in new orleans, i thiiink in 2005 while i was hitchhiking. i sewed it onto a plaid skirt that i wore frequently throughout my 20s.

EVIL (2019 - 2024)

1.01 "Pilot"