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…

Self-publishing has a bad reputation. Those who see self-publishing as an opportunity to create and share art are slowly dismantling the old-fashioned notion that self-publishing is a failure on the artist's part for not being good enough…

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?

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…

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…

Jeanne is on a quest for pleasure. In her “memory palace” there is a plethora of images and descriptions, all of which contain her encounters with men. The men she picks up from the streets of Paris…

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…

“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…

In a life drenched in technology, the fast paced wheel of time and pressures of domestic life – leading a poetic life sounds impossible to some. To others it sounds pretentious. To all of human kind – it is a must…

“Hello Pussy,” announced Anaïs Nin’s husband Hugh Guiler on Tuesday 27th July 1926 (note the precise date and time she recorded in her diary). “We are going to London tomorrow.” This first visit lasting but all of three days to what the poet T. S. Eliot had recently called an ‘Unreal City,’ is absent from the two major biographies of her life…

A book that has been on my to-read pile for a little while is The Private Life of a Diary written by Sally Bayley. The book explores the lives of famous diarists such as Virginia Woolf, Samuel Pepys, Sylvia Plath, George Orwell, James Boswell, Oscar Wilde and many others…

Abandoned by her father at a young age, Nin's mother moved the entire family over to America. During this journey, something incredibly special happened and Nin began writing a letter to her Father to lure him back…

Was Anaïs Nin a feminist? This is a question that trails her and those interested in her. Because first they said she was, and then they said she wasn’t. And then they said she was again – and then they said she wasn’t again…

Diarist, author, lay-analyst, and muse, Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, widely known as Anaïs Nin, was a woman of many lives, appearances, and disguises. Becoming acquainted with Anais, is a bit of a labyrinthian task, but is also incredibly rewarding…

Death spread the canvas of my life before him and started painting over it, sections of my entire existence reduced to original white; the nothingness before I was even an outline, anything, anyone. He slowly began covering over my senses, my thoughts, the hairs on my head, my strength and coordination, my memories, the views beyond my Paris courtyard window, my breath…