Chambarette's Talking Board

Acrylic on canvas, 16x20 inches.
The spirit board of the great nineteenth century visionary Émile Chambarette (1784-1849), The father of  Apocalyptic Chemical Christianity. ( kolaboy.deviantart.com/art/Cha… )
i received the design in a dream.

After the failure of his "chemical cross" Chambarette briefly flirted with the occult, going so far as to fashion his own "talking board". Desperate to find some evidence of an after life he consequently learned  from the board (after many unproductive  sessions) that someone "very close" to him would die within six months. Sure enough, some four months later his only son, Es, would drown when his fishing rig capsized in Baffin Bay.

Incidentally, the planchette - in the iconic shape of a "half hand" - is not included in this representation.

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