PANIC!
The situation has become dire. Confusion, darkness, and the unknown surround you. You dig deep into your bag, hoping for something useful, knowing that the bag will give you whatever fate decides.
Will you find help?
Will you find confusion?
Will you find glazed nuts?
This is the chance you take with BOTTOMLESS BAG!
Close your eyes
Reach inside
FROM WITHIN
This grouping was selected at random from a communally generated master list of four hundred. It is my hope that these ten items can be used as a forecast or guide to your week ahead. You can also use a ten sided dice to turn each weeks items into a miniature oracle. Whether you choose to take these items literally or metaphorically, it’s up to you to find how these things may help. For a more thorough overview go to Introducing Bottomless Bag and Bottomless Bag 01.
Item 101
#278: A TREE BRANCH
A system of divergent thriving
Item 102
#89: TOES
The balance in your feet
Item 103
#324: SIGNAGE
Warnings and information
Item 104
#294: LAVENDER
An herb of many uses
Item 105
#11: HOURGLASS
The simplest measure of time
Item 106
#386: MOTHER’S JEWELRY
Memories and heirlooms
Item 107
#218: TEAPOT
To heat the water
Item 108
#380: CANDLELIGHT
Flickering luminance
Item 109
#249: SWISS ARMY KNIFE
A tool of hidden diversity
Item 110
#212: CLAW HAMMER
To build or break?
DIGGING DEEPER
The item we’ll be doing a deep dive with this week is:
#278: A TREE BRANCH
BRANCH, Component 37 of The Disruption Generator, had this description:
A path with many destinations and
offshoots; the splitting of focus into
many ideas; reaching out in new
directions
I wrote that over a year ago and it feels odd to be trying to wrap my head around the abstract idea of A TREE BRANCH again. It has created a very weighted parallel with that previous work.
In many ways BOTTOMLESS BAG is a direct branching from The Disruption Generator. It’s a more planned version of the idea. I solicited lists of words instead of sourcing the entries from an unknown pool. I’ve built a framework of using a pair of twenty sided dice to determine items in the final version as opposed to letting people do whatever they please. It connects to the original idea but also explores further.
This is what I think of when I think of A TREE BRANCH.
It’s expansion. A million little fingers reaching and spreading out to catch as much sun and sustenance as possible.
A tree would never survive if all of it’s leaves were on one side.
It needs to reach in all directions, all dimensions.
Spread out.
Reach.
That’s all for now. Come back next week for another dig into the BOTTOMLESS BAG.
As always:
SEE WHAT’S INSIDE
DIG DEEP
AND
HAUNT ON
ABOUT ERIC J. MILLAR
Eric is the artist and writer behind Outlet Press. He has published over 20 books over the last four year with VACA: Outlet Illustrated, Volume 5 being his most recent publication. He is also the creator of The Disruption Generator, the randomly generated bibliomantic oracle, and The Impossible Game, a cleromantic oracle, both published in partnership with We The Hallowed.
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