Confessions Of An Alchemist: The Poetry of Cassie Fielding
Cassie’s work is a cauldron of shapes and dreams, loops and echoes lurking in liminal spaces. She writes sentences that melt on the tongue like acid. It sends you into this beautiful and surreal world…
Anaïs in Morocco 1969 & 1973
Anaïs Nin returned to Morocco in the summer of 1969, after her first trip thirty-three years earlier. In volume six of the Diary, Nin writes of the Swedish writer and poet Artur Lundkvist, who, while interviewing her for radio informed her of how he and his wife were staying in a hotel in Agadir at the time of the devastating earthquake in 1960…
Anaïs in Morocco: 1936
Woman's role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don't mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became fatal. Woman must not fabricate…
Dark Reflections: Self-Portraits by Devolish Woman
Devolish Woman, a Dark Art Photographer, crafts haunting self-portraits that dive into the macabre. Each image reveals unsettling beauty, inviting viewers to confront their darkest fears and emotional distress…
Art As Magic: The Art of Josephine Close
Josephine Close is a high priestess of art. Magic embodies every brush stroke. Her work is a ritual, a talisman, a prayer. She is a visual artist whose primary focus is works on paper…
The Death of Coincidence: Creating Your Own Personal Symbolism
Symbolism is a language. It is a language that speaks directly to us as human beings. Signs and symbols come to us every day, but they are often shrugged off as coincidence but I believe the word that is more appropriate here is synchronicity…
Magical Guidance: Unlocking Creativity
When it comes to the act of creation, we can try everything in our power to re-ignite that spark. Going for walks, a short nap, meditation…all of which might help but sometimes it does nothing for you. Sometimes we need to employ a little magic…
The House of Dreams: Exploring Val Telberg
Val Telberg (born Vladimir Telberg-von-Teleheim) was a Russian-born American artist best known for his surrealist photomontages. His interest in experimental photography and film led him to study in New York and he had his first exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1948…
HEJDA / MOIRA / LUCIA
Nin wears black lace, a swishing taffeta and is ‘sparkling’. When her husband joins her later, he is breathless and eager to take her home and make love to her. Lucia is dressed in white satin that she has bought on Grand Street for a few dollars. She says “The only romantic style left to us is the wedding dress.”…
From Her to Eternity: Musings on the Wings of Desire
Textually and visually brilliant - the film has the unique ability to reach into the darkness only to pull out love and hope. It is a sensory plunge into emotional waters. It opens up the idea of how we take certain things for granted like falling in love, drinking a good cup of coffee, and seeing the beautiful colours around us…
Animistic Art, Sacred Ritual & Ceremony with the Unseen – The Artwork of Gabrielle Tamäya
Through trance, ceremony, divination, journeying and guided mark-making, Gabrielle bridges experiences and encounters with the Unseen into luminous maps…
Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone
Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone is an in-progress feature documentary about iconic Berkeley street poet Julia Vinograd, who emerged from the 1960’s Free Speech Movement fighting state oppression with bubbles instead of bricks…
A Woman Creates: The Artist as a Magician: A Conversation with Anaïs Nin by Errika Deli
Based on Anaïs Nin's essay The Artist as a Magician (found in her book A Woman Speaks, edited by Evelyn Hinz), the following text aims to create a dialogue between the past and the present, to bring light into the magic realm…
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…