Inquire here to purchase shares of ownership in T.X. Watson’s immortal soul
Due to financial shortfall, I can no longer afford the version of a Squarespace account that allows me to use the online store features, so it is no longer possible to directly order a share of ownership in my immortal soul through the website.
However, the shares are still very much available for purchase, and if you contact me here we can arrange payment and shipping.
A share of 1/1000 ownership in the Immortal Soul of Mx. T.X. Watson, as signified by a signed and fingerprinted certificate.
About the product
Product dimensions 148 x 210 mm (A5, 5.8 x 8.3 in)
Paper stock: Strathmore Sand Stone, 70 lb Wove Text
Pen & fingerprint ink: Diamine Ancient Copper
A share of 1/1000 ownership in the Immortal Soul of Mx. T.X. Watson, as signified by a signed and fingerprinted certificate. The photo is of share 49, and the certificates are being shipped in numerical order.
If I had sold them all as a student they would have paid off my debt completely. At this point it would still be life-changing, though.
There's an Artist's Statement and more information on this project at memeticengines.com
If you es. help me out with my financial situation, but you aren't comfortable owning part of somebody's soul (or just don't have $45), I'm always happy and extremely grateful to receive donations. (I've been surprised by the number of people who are unwilling to support this idea, but still want to give me money. And I'm immensely grateful for their help.) You can make donations at paypal.me/txwatson, venmo.com/txwatson, and cash.app/$txwatson.
Shipping is standard USPS domestic and international. Art-quality shipping options also available.
Fine print:
i. This certificate is legal tender for all debts of a metaphysical, ‘pataphysical, supernatural, or cosmic nature.
ii. T.X. Watson (hereafter "the Commodity") commits the Commodity's Immortal Soul, in parts numbering one thousand, to all markets, metaphysical, ‘pataphysical, supernatural, or cosmic, except where prohibited (see §v.).
iii. Possession of any fraction of the Commodity’s Immortal Soul is transferable by physical possession of this certificate.
The right of possession over this certificate is not protected from theft, fraud, deceit, or otherwise bad-faith interactions.
iv. Though the Commodity does not adhere to any supernatural, metaphysical, or cosmic revelation, the Commodity commits this certificate to record on faith that any fair-minded extramaterial being will interpret this certificate as valid within any framework relevant to that being’s understanding of reality.
Though the Commodity’s name as recognized by the Commodity's sovereign state is not represented on this document, the Commodity commits this certificate to record on faith that any fair-minded extramaterial being will interpret this certificate as referring to the soul, or any part thereof, of that human who deliberately and without coercion volunteered the Commodity's soul, or any part thereof, for commodification.
v. Destruction or radical transmutation of this certificate constitutes the remit of possession over the Commodity’s soul, or any part thereof, to the Commodity.
Transporting this certificate into any sovereign space wherein this certificate and the transaction it represents is prohibited constitutes the remit of possession over the Commodity’s soul, or any part thereof, to the Commodity.
The devaluing of this certificate does not entitle its bearer to compensation, material or metaphysical.
vi. Possession of this certificate does not empower its bearer to exercise control of any kind over the Commodity’s choices or actions, moral or otherwise, mortal or otherwise.