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  At inception, we drilled the concept, forming exterior realities. Ivan Venkov built the visual identity for the brand. In addition to Vanguard Atelier & Son Network, finalizing the naming process (A Co. of WLVS, A Company of Wolves, ofWLVS, We Create Wolves), Venkov initiated the #wecreatewolves campaign with key artwork (for she/wolf), starting with the launch poster. References to Atlantis & Ouroborus reflect our travel & source of energy. Wolves & The Journey Of ...
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  Tracing historical references for narrative appropriation. The Spanish Inquisition, Harlem Renaissance, Nationalism etc. as well as research material for "Crescents" Art Book & the "North Gate" Journal. We extend to concepts of history with a basis in heritage, maintaining an ideology of one universal culture as opposed to a commericial "multiculturalism" fiction. Exotic societies from the Americas, Eurasia, Russia & more. This ephemeral transfer helps to enhance the viewers overall experience & expands understanding.
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  We Create Wolves, our societal & tribal spirits. Sourced through film, art, politics/civics & anthropoligical artifacts — showing all angles of our creations & things made. Inevitable gnosis through the assortment of knowledge attached to the cultural denotations & connotations.
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  Ephemeral renderings allow glimpses into each pack, these were manifested to share a piece of the experience, inevitably extending our reach. Luxury is generally exclusive, the veil of crisis or illusion of risk advances the market — we're interactively disrupting this idea.
  
  
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  The Greek for wolf, lukos, is so close to the word for light, leukos, that the one was sometimes mistaken for the other in translation. Some scholars have argued that Apollo only came down to us as both the god of dawn and a god associated with wolves because of this etymological confusion. But the association between wolf and twilight is found among too many of the world’s cultures to be so simply dismissed. In Latin, again, the word for wolf, lupus, and that for light, lucis, are as close and suggest a third association: that with the Devil.
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  The irony is that most people miss the real mystery of these "touches at the extremes", where something goes full circle (r) and one step farther (+1).
  
  |NOMAD| self-portraits | a visual auto-autopsy by Cathy ZHU Chen
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  "A gentleman is simply a patient Wolf" - Lana Turner
  
  Ivan Venkov has juxtaposed the reality of glutton & beauty. This makes way for Marshall McLuhan's theory that we are going back toward a tribal man via the statement: information overload produces pattern recognition. Going Against the Grain to meet folly.
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  "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb discussing whats for dinner" — Tesla
  
  "The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation of those who are to come and point the way."
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  "follow distinct trajectories but entangled lines | to move a pas de loup is to arrive timelessly | to track imperceptibly ..."
  
  velamen lux et tenebræ — pulchritudo
  Rewinda Omar, Crescents
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  ²⁹ And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually. ³⁰ And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the Lord: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually. † Exodus 28
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  You are always in danger in the forest, where no people are. Step between the portals of the great pines where the shaggy branches tangle about you, trapping the unwary traveller in nets as if the vegetation itself were in a plot with the wolves who live there, as though the wicked trees go fishing on behalf of their friends–step between the gateposts of the forest with the greatest trepidation and infinite precautions, for if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you. They are grey as famine, they are as unkind as plague.
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  The Greek myth of Narcissus is directly concerned with a fact of human experience, as the word Narcissus indicates. It is from the Greek word narcosis, or numbness. The youth Narcissus mistook his own reflection in the water for another person. This extension of himself by mirror numbed his perceptions until he became the servomechanism of his own extended or repeated image. The nymph Echo tried to win his love with fragments of his own speech, but in vain. He was numb. He had adapted to his extension of himself and had become a closed system.
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  "Only the mountain has earned the right to hear the Wolf speak"
  
  
  † Proverb
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  "My life is so short and I want to make the best out of it, that makes me think about time passing by."
  
  
  — Julien Simshäuser
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  Here is another enigma. Do you comprehend? Try; for remember the human soul is infinite in its nature! Its capacities are boundless. You aspire to comprehend the mighty secret of the Trine. You seek to become an acolyte of the imperial order of the Rosy Cross, and to re-sestablish it upon the earth; and no True Rosicrucian dares shrink from attempting the solution fo the mysteries and problems that human minds in heaven or on earth may conceive or propound. Our motto — the motto of the great order of which I was a brother on the earth, — an order which has, under a variety of names, existed since the very dawn of civilization on the earth — is 'Try.'
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  GRAND OPERA
  
  
  The Grand Lodge of Delaware, Washington Lodge No. 1, Temple Lodge No. 11 & Lafayette Lodge No. 14
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  "And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb"
  
  
  † Isaiah 11:6
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  A creative collegium that constitutes its aesthetical basis through its members, who develop their personal projects or work on a collaborative basis.
  
  Lupi Apud Oves Custodes

— Inception: religio.medici ; David Son & Michael Ostermann / King's Folly ; Ivan Venkov / |NOMAD| ; Cathy Zhu Chen / Vanitas Still Life ; Julien Simshäuser