Chicago is also the windswept, late - industrial landscape where Herman Poole Blount — later Le Sony» r Ra, or Sun Ra — founded El Saturn Records in 1957 and a society called Thmei Research, which explored numerological esoterica and
occultist histories of Egypt.
The exhibition refers to a peculiar anecdote in the
history of Cecil Court in London, in which the famous
occultist and writer Aleister Crowley performed an incantation in Watkins Books, opposite where Tenderpixel now stands.