Congratulations! You've reached a digital resting stop!
You are invited to participate in the opening of a digital portal via an IRL ritual
AFK Altar as a Digital Resting Stop
A digital resting stop, coined by Gabi Abrão, is a cozy corner of the internet that encourages users to pause from the scrolling and subsequent overstimulation, encouraging them to slow down and relax. Videos of a rainy afternoon, a beautiful river, or waves lapping the shore are common examples of digital resting stops.
I wanted to create an altar that invites users to pause and meditate on whatever they feel called to focus on. This altar contains two oracles that use binary code to interpret the universe: the raspberry pi server and Orunmila. Both are housed in sacred containers as is the tradition within Ifá. The raspberry pi is housed within a calabash, which is said to be the container that holds the universe in Ifá cosmology.