David Tibet Current 93 Large 1 of A Kind Photograph

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This auction is for an original unpublished photograph of David Tibet from Current 93.

It is a large photo.  The image size is 15" X 19".  Please note that the actual image is a black and white.  The photograph does not show it's true colors because the glass made it impossible to take a photo of it with glare.  To get a better idea of the coloring, please see my other auction for the Little Annie photograph.

The shipping price is for the photograph without the frame.  The frame size is 19" X 24".  If you would like to keep it in it's original professionally framed state, the shipping will be significantly higher!
 

David Tibet (born David Michael Bunting, 5 March 1960 in Batu Gajah, Malaysia) is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. He had earlier collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo. He was given the name "Tibet" by Genesis P-Orridge, and in January 2005 he announced that he would revert to the name David Michael.

Tibet left Psychic TV in 1983 and founded Current 93 the same year. He has worked with Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound (of which band he is a member), Michael Cashmore, Douglas P. (of Death In June, on whose albums he has appeared several times), Steve Ignorant of Crass (using the name "Stephen Intelligent"), Boyd Rice, Nick Cave, Rose McDowall, and Ian Read of Fire and Ice.

Tibet's lyrical subject matter reflects a consistent preoccupation with all aspects of apocalypse. He has long been a student of Christian eschatology. At a precocious age, he developed a strong interest in Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis. He joined the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis and borrowed the term "93 Current", the current of Thelema or Agape, from Crowley. His initial recording as Current 93, LAShTAL, was, according to Tibet, "the invocation of Malkunofath on the Nightside of Eden, the reverse of the Tree of Life". He has long proclaimed a virtual anathema to Crowleyism (despite a strong appreciation for Crowley as an individual) and instead has embraced at various intervals, Tibetan Buddhism and esoteric Christianity. His projects continue to focus on the multifaceted aspects of apocalypse, mainly death, loss and destruction. Progressively, his works are tempered by Christian mysticism and an increasingly strong faith in the end of the world.

Other influences include Noddy, Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, Austin Osman Spare, Bobby Beausoleil, and a variety of occult topics.

In April 2006, the Caliphate OTO formed the International OTO Cabinet, an advisory, non-voting panel made up of both OTO Initiates and Non-Initiates. David Tibet was named among the initial non-member appointments.

He is a painter. Tibet is interested in the work of Count Stenbock, whose writings he has worked to republish. He also runs the Durtro publishing imprint and record label. He attended Newcastle University.