Thoughts on Film: The World of Thoughtography
Thoughtography or Nensha (念写) is the act of transferring a psychic image from one’s mind to a photograph. The act of burning an image onto film was discovered and investigated in the early 1900s…
The Making of a Modern Magician: Embracing the Weirdo Within
Two days before All Hallows' Eve and a few days before the Day of the Dead in 1980, a little Scorpio was born in a small local hospital in the countryside of southern Sealand, Denmark. My parents didn’t know or care much about these “occult” dates, as they weren't particularly spiritual…
The Tower Years: My Time in the House of the Devil
My journey to The Tower began over a decade ago with a powerful dream. Back then I knew little about Tarot and nothing at all of the card I’d eventually come to see as defining the strange and tumultuous phase my life was about to enter…
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…
In Nature, Nothing Dies: The Power of the Death Tarot Card
Every human being fears death, and for good reason. For every new seeker of the Tarot - this card can be a bit tricky to handle. These feelings are usually fuelled by horror plotlines or supersitition…
Finding The Centre: The Interiors Of An Artist by Katie Doherty
I have always looked inward. I was called “thoughtful” and some would say I was always “living in my head”, often portrayed as a negative trait. As an adult I see this very differently now. I see that others were afraid of their own minds and projected that fear onto me…
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…
DISORDERLY MAGIC AND OTHER DISTURBANCES by Richard Cabut
When someone describes their work as a meditation on (insert subject here), we expect a slow, quiet meander through thought, theory and maybe the odd jam recipe…
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…
Self-publishing: The Women of the Underground by Katie Doherty
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…
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…