Scent is everything. We find scent in the books we read, in our coffee cups, on the flesh of our lovers and in the perfume we wear. Imagine if we could put all this together and be the sensual avant-garde woman we always wanted to be. Enter: JOUISSANCE…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.”…

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…

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 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…

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…