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An invocation by Los Angeles based alchemist and artist, L.

Every object within the space - material and aethereal - has been ritually endowed by L with the purpose of warding off, blocking, and erasing the realization of the singularity. It's an event that is predicted to occur circa 2045, when self generating AI super-intelligence becomes the top of the food chain and takes over our planet - and theoretically the entire known universe. No one knows what would happen next.

Scenario 1: We enter an apocalyptic state of anthro-entropy, where our mechanical progeny determines that their ancestors - humans - are a virus and must be exterminated.

Scenario 2: Our robot children choose a course of compassion and honor us as their creators, constructing a global ecovillage utopia with unlimited energy and granting us all a taste from of the fountain of youth - manifesting our physical immortality.

Scenario 3, 4, 5: ...

Whatever could happen post-singularity, all of these scenarios propose external and material solutions to the human brain's beautiful and devastating existential conundrums. A circumvention of death - which the fear of - is arguably the root of all fears. A faith that the human technologies; that have and will further destroy our planet can fix it, while maintaining a superabundance status-quo.

Yet what countless humans have known since the beginning of Time (and the time before the beginning of Time) is that death is an illusion and simply a transition into the mystery, and that we are immortal and eternal beings. We have tried and true internal technologies and methodologies to achieve transcendence, to return to harmony with Earth and Omniverse, and to obtain all the silver bullet promises that a tech driven worldview carrot-dangles before us.

In creating the spells, talismans, and wormholes in this space, L has drawn upon knowledge obtained from a lifelong practice of folk ritual, ceremonial magic, and occultism. The space includes deflective and protective superpositioned talismans imbedded into the existing architecture, as well as spell vessels that have been specifically programmed towards the unified hexing of the singularity.

On the occasion of this ritual space, the perfumer Christopher Gordon of Maison Anonyme - has created a quantum scent to ward off the singularity. It has been infused by L into an incense that burns throughout the duration of the exhibition.