Indulgences Explored

July 28, 2008

I’ve been toying with the indulgences idea a little more.

I’ve been getting back into silkscreen printing lately, and was thinking it would be fun to hand-print big, beautiful, frame-worthy certificates of the indulgences as limited edition pieces of art. To tie them into the website, and reinforce the notion of the indulgences as the virtual, spiritual commodity, I’m thinking of encouraging their transfer, sale, barter, etc. and putting a tracking number rather than an edition number, and having the current owner “register” with the site. I’ll have to come up with some sort of incentive to get them to play along.

Also mocking a trend I so greatly enjoy, I was thinking of selling them as “sin offset credits” tied into the seven deadly sins and/or the ten commandments.

I’m thinking of calling it the First Hypertextual Church of Nermo.

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2 Responses to “Indulgences Explored”

  1. Amanda says:
    August 5, 2008 at 8:49 am

    In Nermo We Trust.

  2. Quinn says:
    August 18, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Transcript of today’s google chat with Amanda –

    Amanda:
    2:45 PM oh btw
    2:46 PM TOTALLy stealing this idea
    http://www.nermo.com/?p=7
    I’ve been really wanting to commission all my artist friends to do art for me
    around a central theme or idea or object
    but haven’t been able to come up with ANYTHING
    this is genius

    me: don’t you dare, that is my favorite! I actually have notes that I meant to include in that post that I still need to incorporate, so thanks for the reminder

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