The tarot has had quite a time in London recently with the launch of two fabulous exhibitions. Both are closing at the end of April and are within walking distance from each other. I recently visited and was quite blown away by the care and attention that went into both exhibitions…

It escapes me. The first time I saw the face of Alice Prin… but I remember the feeling it gave me. It was a feeling that remains with me to this day. She had evoked something in me…

With the invention of the word processor, you had the opportunity to sit at home and type correspondence, create a zine or even write a book. Your fingers and wrists would be saved from the heavy work of those typewriter keys…

Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words is the specter that haunts Thomas Ekelund. But it is a ghost by which Ekelund performs sonic exorcism, unleashing his bleak and twisted vision into the material world…

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.”…