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 121
#231: AN ARROW WITH A MAGNIFYING GLASS TIP
A projectile of focus
Item 122
#94: CRUSHED ICE
Something to chew on
Item 123
#369: NOSE RING
To decorate one’s face
Item 124
#119: GLOWING COALS
A memory of fire
Item 125
#59: MUSTARD
A sometimes spicy condiment
Item 126
#213: A GROUP OF SMALL BASKETS
Woven compartmentalization
Item 127
#354: GEL PACK
Reusable chill
Item 128
#2: GLASS DOME
To display and protect
Item 129
#104: TOENAIL THAT IS SLIGHTLY TOO LONG
Something that needs cutting
Item 130
#333: KEYS
To unlock what is locked
DIGGING DEEPER
For DIGGING DEEPER a 10 sided die is rolled and I explore whichever item it lands on. The item we’ll be doing a deep dive with this week is:
#2: GLASS DOME
This week’s item is another perfect example of what inspired BOTTOMLESS BAG and the idea of mundane magic.
My first reaction to GLASS DOME was the obvious: PROTECTION and PRESENTATION.
A glass dome is used to protect fragile items such as collectibles, heirlooms, or antiques. It provides a somewhat fragile and transparent shield around such items. You’re allowed to look but not touch. These things that we protect could be ideologies, ideas, beliefs, or even the way we view ourselves or others. The antiques of our mind and heart that we want to keep on display for ourselves but don’t allow for further scrutiny.
You don’t put things inside a glass dome unless you want others to have full view of them. Prizes, not eyesores, are put in such cases. If we follow the examples from above you may want to look at the views and ideologies that you put out there and whether or not they are truly an accurate portrayal and not simply the surface features you wish others to see.
Now, as always, this is my interpretation of this item in this particular time. I feel like I may be influenced by the upcoming American election and the overwhelming public displays of political beliefs constantly hitting us these days. It’s as if we’re all carrying our hearts in glass domes these days, out in the open for everyone to see, waiting for someone to arrive with a hammer and shatter our illusion of safety and protection.
Hold tight.
Take inventory of the riches you share with the world.
Keep them safe.
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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