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    NIGHT WATCHMEN

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    P3E-006As Al-Ghul (الغول)·2025

    Stickers, t-shirts, posters and magnets featuring a rogues' gallery of tricksters, shapeshifters, and morally ambiguous antiheroes who know how to have fun.

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    ABOUT THIS ARTIFACT

    Issued as merch and swag — stickers, t-shirts, posters, and magnets — through Etsy. Everyday objects: things you stick on a laptop, a fridge, a jacket, or a wall.

    The figures are rendered in a consistent visual language — high-contrast, ink-heavy, devotional in posture but irreverent in spirit.

    The premise: these night watchmen are not entertainment. They are practical wisdom encoded as character. When the official maps fail, these are the figures who knew how to navigate without one.

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    ARTIFACT DETAILS

    Format
    Stickers · T-Shirts · Posters · Magnets
    Medium
    Merch & Swag
    Year
    2025 — ongoing
    Tools & Process
    Iterative generative AI (ChatGPT) output, traced, modified and recolored in Adobe Illustrator. Printed & distributed via Etsy.
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    POINTS TO PONDER

    William S. Burroughs

    "Enemy [sic] have two notable weaknesses: 1. No sense of humor. They simply don't get it. 2. They totally lack understanding of magic, and being totally oriented toward control, what they don't understand is a menace, to be destroyed by any means."

    — William S. Burroughs, Dec. 2, 1996
    Philip K. Dick

    "To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement … Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus … thereby it becomes its enemies."

    — Philip K. Dick
    Wilhelm Reich

    "A kindly man believes that all men are kindly, while one infected with the plague believes that all men lie and cheat and are hungry for power. In such a situation, the living are at an obvious disadvantage."

    — Wilhelm Reich