The Magical World of Lotta Glybotskaia
Born in the mystical city of St. Petersburg, Lotta is a creator whose life has been an exploration of the uncharted realms of contemporary art. With over 15 years of experience as a designer and art director, Lotta's journey is enriched by her fascination with mysticism, symbolism, poetry, and psychoanalysis…
Magic Art: André Breton (with the assistance of Gérard Legrand)
First published in 1957 as L’Art magique, this important text is offered here as an English translation for the first time. Working from manuscript notes for the original project, this edition presents the iconographic content as Breton intended…
Liminal Spaces: The Art of Annabella Pritchard
Annabella Pritchard, from Southern California, started taking photos fifteen years ago to cope with depression and loneliness. Often, her daughter was the subject of her styled images, influenced by the works of Julia Margaret Cameron, Sarah Moon, and Francesca Woodman…
Blood, Breath and Bone: The Photography of Katie Metcalfe
Katie Metcalfe is a writer, poet and self-taught photographer from the North of England. Blood, breath, and bone bind her life and work to the Northernmost reaches of our planet. Katie's photographic journey began through self-portraiture, the practice of which incidentally saved her life in 2020…
Death, Fear & The Grotesque: The Art of Lorena Torres Martell
Lorena Torres Martell, who lives in Mexico, has participated in various exhibitions of painting, engraving and photography. She collaborated with photo work in the storybook "SINIESTRO" by Violeta García at the Fabica festival in Guadalajara and at the Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo in Mexico City…
Mountain Dream Tarot: A Photographic Deck by Bea Nettles
Nettles spent the next five years photographing members of the Penland community and her family and friends. She then assembled the images into photomontages using the symbolism of the tarot…
Whispers in Dreams: Exploring the art of Kim Bo Yung
Her drawings serve as a way for her to express her trauma and life experiences, including visitations from what she identifies as "sentinels" in her dreams, her time spent in institutions, and her journey of personal self-discovery…
Esoteric Matter: The Art of Dolorosa de la Cruz
Dolorosa de la Cruz is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her Art is an ongoing enquiry into esoteric matters, capturing phantastical and talismanic mysteries in kinship with the chthonic and elemental through the female sensibility, incorporating ritual, research and visualization through occult practices…
The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic By S. Elizabeth
Artists have always been creating worlds. They were transforming the mundane into magic via their canvas and welcoming its spirit into the conscious world. This idea that we use what we have and transform it into something else is in essence - creating magic…
Dark Feminine: The Art of Chris Madsen
My love affair with visual imagery took seed while I was working as a graphic designer. I began exploring the attributes that make an image meaningful to the viewer. What went into creating the work that pulled at my heartstrings?
“Apparitions” – Alexa Jade Frankelis and Stephen Romano Gallery
Alexa Jade Frankelis is a researcher and visual artist based in New York City. Before attending Stony Brook University where she received her BA in Art History and Criticism (Hons.), she had also attended the BFA Photography and Video program at the School of Visual Arts…
The Collages of Sacred Cuts
Jodie Day is an analog collage artist from London, UK, who works under the pseudonym ‘Sacred Cuts’. The name represents the ritual process she undertakes and the spiritual journey she embarks on through her work…
HEXENTEXTE - The Labyrinth: A Conversation on Anaïs Nin with Amanda Maciel Antunes & Katie Doherty
This a video recording of our conversation where we took Nin’s short story The Labyrinth, published in Under a Glass Bell (1948) to discuss Antunes and Doherty’s research and responses to Nin’s work with a focus on dreamlife, personal narrative, and pathways through the creative process…
Dark Entries: Surrealist Art by Doug Campbell
“A long time ago, as a child, I found the word ‘surrealist’ in a science fiction novel and asked what it meant. This was the first step on an adventure that continues until this day. I have since made friends with surrealists around the world through correspondence, collective games and contributions to publications and group shows…
An Interview With Ashkan Honarvar
Ashkan’s work is an exploration of why we do the things we do through the medium of art. His work is dark, provocative and beautiful . We interviewed him to find out what inspires him and why he chose the art life…