This is a freakin' awesome idea... I just checked out your 'garlic totem' essay. For me, I've been making 'things' that could be considered totems (physical) ever since I was 5... that connection between the life force around me and the urge to create kind of meeting in a way that produced a totem, which was then 'alive' from the process. Bravo 'for its own sake'!!