{"id":24883,"date":"2015-06-09T05:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T10:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24883"},"modified":"2015-05-28T09:03:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T14:03:49","slug":"problem-glyphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24883","title":{"rendered":"Problem Glyphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/buildyourhome-150x94.png\" alt=\"Problem Glyph\" width=\"150\" height=\"94\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sigil_%28magic%29\">sigil<\/a> is a symbolic illustration used in magic, representing a desired outcome.  Artist Eliza Gauger has a project called <a href=\"http:\/\/problemglyphs.org\/\">Problem Glyphs<\/a> in which she draws sigils which represent the solution to problems sent in by her audience.<\/p>\n<p>A lament of, &#8220;i do not belong anywhere&#8221; results in a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/problemglyphs.org\/post\/118800597864\/11-12-2014-11-57-40-i-do-not-belong-anywhere\">badass snails<\/a> and the motto, &#8220;Build your home and carry it.&#8221;  An astronomer who &#8220;chose science over faith&#8221; and was rejected by their religious fundamentalist family is comforted with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/problemglyphs.org\/post\/117191133984\/anonymous-said-03-03-2015-17-24-32-my-family\">You are welcome amongst the stars<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most &#8220;traditional&#8221; sigils tend to be a spare set of lines, but Gauger&#8217;s drawings are bursting with movement and detail.  She takes requests (although her <a href=\"http:\/\/problemglyphs.org\/request\">request form<\/a> notes that there are about 600 of &#8217;em in the queue right now so it might be a while before she gets to yours) and doesn&#8217;t ask for payment, although she accepts donations through PayPal or Patreon.  She also sells stickers of some of her glyphs in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/elizagauger?section_id=15506672&#038;ref=shopsection_leftnav_2\/\">Etsy shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other artists have been inspired by her work to try their own glyphs, and she frequently features them on the site as well.  If you&#8217;re facing a tough problem, have a look through her archives for something suitable.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to Bruno)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sigil is a symbolic illustration used in magic, representing a desired outcome. Artist Eliza Gauger has a project called Problem Glyphs in which she draws sigils which represent the solution to problems sent in by her audience. A lament of, &#8220;i do not belong anywhere&#8221; results in a pair of badass snails and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24883"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24896,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions\/24896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}