Ahadada books is a good example of the super-new technologies available for publishing. In the face of the ease of putting your words on the net and having them read by hundreds of thousands of people from all parts of the globe, I’ve been creating small volumes of my own work, with my own designs and illustrations, and coloring them with watercolors, markers, colored pencils and inks. The “editions” are tiny—and each book is different. They take weeks to do and the results?—Well, the results please me. This tiny “press” I call “Hand of Glory” and I now have eight different books that I’ve published over 2006.

The logo for Hand of Glory is a flying eye—a Lebnizean monad, though the eye is the result of my interest in them, as Leibniz’s were completely blind yet gave the illusion of sight—which appears over and over. Also Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad (a nifty symbol that incorporates many arcane concepts makes an appearance or two.