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I am very interested in swapping holy-cards & pocket shrines. I make my own postcards, Lucumi and Folk-Catholic shrines, and have started making ATCs. I also have duplicate prayer-cards and devotionals for trade. I am open to other types of swaps as well.

I have a wide variety of interests, including: art, Birds (mostly cardinals and sparrows), books, existentialism, flora, gardening, Gnosticism, grape vines, heirloom roses, holy-cards, homeostasis, Jungian psychology and spirituality, libraries, Lucumi, Maryology, music, mystics, noise, painting, (p)androgyny, philosophy of religion, avant & art-pop, post-modernism, printmaking, prog, rats, religions, saints, Santeria, sculpting, styleized birds and flowers, superstring (quantum) theory, Syncretic Catholicism, syncretism, theology, all thoroughly transgressive thought and individuals, & Wisdom literature.

My partner and I collect and create various religious and cultural curio, including: religious statues, shrines, prayer-cards, holy -cards, novenas, chaplets, Victorian wallpaper, Art-Nouveau advertisements and illustrations, small press publications, chapbooks, broadsides, post/greeting cards with Marian images, saints and song birds...

Saint Anne (Ann or Anna) Mother of Our Lady, Saint Therese of Lisieux, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Martin de Porres, Saint Dymphna, La Santísima Muerte (Santa Muerte), Our Lady of La Salette, Our Lady of Regla, Our Lady of Candelaria, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Pontmain/Hope, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Aparecida, and all her thousand names... Oya, Ochun, Oxum, Yemaya, Obatala, Oxala, Damballa Wedo, Ayida Weddo , Erzulie, loa, lwa, orisa, orisha...

Most of the abstract expressionists, Edward Burne Jones, Marc Chagall, Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Durer, Paul Gauguin, Andy Goldsworthy, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Hilma Af Klint, Franz Marc, Gustave Moreau, the Pre-Raphaelites, Odilon Redon, Auguste Rodin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Cindy Sherman, Remedios Varo...

Maya Angelou, Joseph Campbell, Albert Camus, Herman Hesse, Carl Jung, Madeleine L'engle, CS Lewis, Toni Morrison, Henry Nouwen, Elaine Pagels, Blaise Pascal, Jean Paul Sartre, Paul Tillich...

El Circulo Hermetico, Demian, Omnigender: A Trans-Religious Approach, The Story of a Soul: the Autobiography of Therese of Lisieux, the Essential Tillich, Beyond Belief: the Secret Gospel of Thomas, The Nag Hammadi Library, The Aryan Christ: the Secret Life of Carl Jung, Answer to Job, Saints & Their Cults, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination, The Plague, Art and the Creative Unconscious, Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism, Till We have Faces, Primer to Postmodernity, The Cult of the Virgin, Medieval Cult of Saints, The Cult of the Black Virgin, The Irrational Season... I also like some fantasy and sci-fi but mostly Victorian fairy tales, steam-punk & cyber-punk genres.

Post-punk, art rock, 70's am radio, French hip-hop & various down-tempo lounge, the Adorable, Air, American Analog Set, Antony and the Johnsons, Avey Tare & Panda Bear, Bent, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Blue Oyster Cult, the Boredoms, Boston, David Bowie, Chung King, CocoRosie, Cornelius, the Cure, Miles Davis, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, Final Fantasy, the Flaming Lips, Gang Gang Dance, Marvin Gaye, Nina Hagen, the Honeymoon Killers, Iron & Wine, Kid Silver, Arto Lindsay, M Ward, the Magnetic Fields, Mercury Rev, Spleen, Minimal Compact, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine, Colin Newman, Nobody & the Mystic Chords of Memory, Klaus Nomi, the Notwist, Nujabes, OOIOO, Orange Juice, Erlend Oye, Genesis P-Orridge, Phoenix, the Psychedelic Furs, Psychic TV, Radiohead, the (Real) Tuesday Weld, the Saints, the Silver Apples, Slowdive, Sparklehorse, Spoon, Sun Ra, the Swans/Angels of Light, Swervedriver, Television, Tortoise, Tuxedomoon, T(yrannosaurus) Rex, Wire, Xinlisupreme, Xiu Xiu, Yes, Yo La Tengo...

Shlocky horror films, Hedwig, House of Yes, Serial Experiments Lain, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena, Supernatural, The Addams Family Movie, Trans America, Wild at Heart, and just about anything that's Campy or unusual.