The Cordite Poetry Review offers 13 collage artworks by Australian artist Deborah Kelly, in connection with her queer insurrectionary science fiction climate change religion known as CREATION:
“The religion proceeds from a text I commissioned from artist SJ Norman called the Liturgy of the Saprophyte, and some of these artworks were made as part of calling-into-being of that liturgy, and others were made to accompany and amplify its resonances.
The Holy Orders of CREATION are the Serpent, the Rat, Fungus, Bacteria, the Vulture and the Spider, whose companions are the Moon and Infinity.
Like the accretive and trans-historical aspects of collage, CREATION is built on the bones of its ancestral faith traditions, particularly the most gothic incarnation of Catholicism, as well as origin stories of the ancient Greeks and Sumerians, Wiccans and various queer exuberances. SJ Norman is a Wiradjuri person and his liturgy also invokes Indigenous theologies through its sensibilities, tenets and foundation, however this holiness is not reflected in the iconography.”