Principia Discordia (2005)

The Unkindest Cut of All By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The Stench of Hypocrisy By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Superiority Complex By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

After The Flood By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Berlin (The State of Innocence) By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

A Tyrant in the Flesh By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

A Portrait of the Artist By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

When Blind Belief Collides with Reason By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

From Saviour to Victim By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

When Worlds Collided By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The Deadly Lure of Paradise By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Letters from the Edge By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Brief Encounters in Camera By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Pointing the Finger of Blame By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Fear Down Below By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The City in Full Flow By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The Dream Genie By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Same Old Story By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Something in the Air (Civil War) By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Unfinished Sympathy By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Letters to the Editor By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The Girl Addicted By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Hearts and Minds By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Dawn of the Dread By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Metropolis Now By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Love and Longing By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The Genius of Space and Time By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Another Way of Seeing By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Border Crossing By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Falling Behind By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Another Object of Desire By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

I Think We Need To Talk By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Morale Dilemma By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Inner Thoughts By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The Exile’s Return By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

In Pursuit of Sublime Terror By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The Children of Paradise By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The Future, Tense By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Personal Demons By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

The Simple Plan By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

System Overload By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

A Litany of Disaster By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Questions Remain By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

No More With Feeling By Paul Watson (Jan 2005)

Artist: Paul Watson

Mixing found objects and stolen headlines, fine art drawings and photographs, police tape and musical scores, Principia Discordia is a limited series of collages.

Each hand-numbered collage is on 9 × 12 inches (229 × 305 mm) Bockingford Board.

The collage series is named after the sacred/comedic book The Principia Discordia because it shares a number of characteristics with it: a collage of appropriated materials, obvious self-contradictions and unusual humour, an exaggerated, often parodying and nonsensical technique, and oblique suggestions that there is serious intent behind the work.

“The Principia Discordia is a sacred text of the Discordian religion written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse The Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). The Principia is quoted extensively in and shares many themes with the science fiction book The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Both books employ an exaggerated, often parodying and nonsensical literary technique, accompanied by numerous non sequiturs and passages reminiscent of koans, as a vehicle for countercultural iconoclasm.

The Principia describes the Discordian Society and its Goddess Eris, as well as the basics of the POEE denomination of Discordianism. It features typewritten and handwritten text intermixed with clipart, stamps, and seals appropriated from other sources, possibly illegally.

While the Principia is full of obvious self-contradictions and unusual humour, it contains several passages which purport to suggest that there is serious intent behind the work. Take for example a message scrawled on page 00075: If you think the PRINCIPIA is just a ha-ha, then go read it again.”

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