The Lichenic Prophecy is an interpretation of lichen ancestors narrating the Return of the Spores.
It is revealed through the Tools of the Cyanotypic Liturgy —concoctions, devices, and presences, that excite light into matter.
SUN CATCHER
Inscribe with ferrous oxide the Prophecy illuminated by the Sun.
Intertwine primordial substances
Knot ultraviolet rays
Transform light into pigment
Summon the dormant iron
and let water oxidize you into blue.
BLACK SUN
Truth revealed beyond the ocular cones.
Invisible cannon of light
Activate the radiant violet
Make bodies vibrate at hidden frequencies
Burn my eyes,
but let me see you.
POCKET PORTAL
Guards the origin of all myths.
Come closer
Cross the microscopic threshold
On the other side of the portal
there are worlds
within your worlds
within your worlds.
SACRED OXALATE
Embrace, dissolve, forge
Love stone with acid and time
Transform calcium into a crystal house
Grow a home inward
Digest as you build
Thus we return to stone.
Thus stone returns to us.
THE F****** SUN
Scorching truth.
Origin of all shadows
Mother of eyes
You do not illuminate: you inscribe
Oh great revealer
Oh re-organizer of matter
No one escapes your inclement radiation
Make sugar from your light
Activate the iron’s blue
Excite my melanin
Make my skin your testimony
(Note: the Sun does not see—we see because the Sun exists)
SPORES
Promises to the wind.
You have no destination, only drift
You are an archive without an archive
Prophecy without text
You will return to us.
