Invoking Belial Collection

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Wednesday 2 April 2025

Evidence that other worlds have never been silent. Making the ephemeral visible.

// METADATA

// WHAT

33 hand-crafted artworks exploring encounters with demons, gods, spirits, and the liminal spaces in between
Not horror. Not fantasy. A representation of what lives beyond the veil and who has always been there
The invisible made visible, minted permanently on the blockchain as one-of-one digital relics

// HOW

Hand-drawn, hand-painted in gouache on cotton rag at miniature scale
Inspired by the visual language of medieval woodcuts: dense, symbolic, morally complex
Each piece digitised and minted individually
Tangible artefacts that become permanent fragments on-chain
The blockchain does here what the woodcut did then: makes the ephemeral visible

// WHY

The occult has long welcomed the dispossessed, the disadvantaged, the disfranchised, the disabled, those the mainstream turned away
This collection refuses the comfortable separation between spiritual outsiders and social outsiders
Demons don't wait for permission. They don't need an invitation. They find the side door
Not possession as threat, possession as presence. Not spiritual combat. Alignment

// INSIDE

The Little Witch recurs throughout, in a wheelchair, on a broomstick, raising a hand in recognition rather than warding off
'Who' and 'Church': the cast-aside, the physically disabled, the socially dispossessed dancing and gathering alongside devil-like figures.
Belonging rendered as ritual
'Between Us': no salt lines, no rebuking, two figures stepping toward each other. What others called possession, the collection calls presence
'Red Gate': the wound-man of Hans von Gersdorff reborn as the Prince of Torment. Wounds as map, desire as will, the gate opening in recognition
'By Themselves': since demons aren't summoned anymore, they are coming by themselves
'Seen': Eddy Avenue, Sydney, May 2015, that time a Transit Thing stumbles across three lanes of peak hour traffic and disappears into thin air
'Beings': some spirits move in early and stay long, long before belief has scaffolding
33 pieces. Every one a portal. Every one a witness

// CONTEXT

Invoking Belial was the first major collection from Artipodean, launching in April 2025
It established the visual and conceptual terrain the practice would continue to inhabit: marginalised lives, liminal spaces, the spiritual and the social as inseparable
The collection draws directly on lived experience. Disability, oddness, and the long history of those communities finding sanctuary in the spaces the mainstream refuses to occupy
Where later collections moved into abstraction and narrative, Invoking Belial is figural, symbolic, and unapologetically occult

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