Synchronicity: “Meaningful coincidences” — events that occur together without logical or causal connection, yet are perceived as deeply significant by the observer.

Looking back, that night was destined to be a powerful one. It was November 2, right in the middle of Scorpio season.  It was the Day of the Dead, and we had pictures of our deceased loved ones and ofrendas across the living room. The veil was thin. Out there in the cosmos, warrior Mars was opposing lord Pluto. Powerful energies lingered in the air. 

My paintings begin in silence and shadow. In the quiet of my studio I often feel a presence – an ancient voice or a child’s laugh – that begins to paint itself through me. I sit with a canvas and let my hand move, guided by instinct: a shape appears, a creature stirs, a moon or mountain takes form…

His compositions exist on the border between dreams and nightmares, drawing on the visual language of cosmic horror and the Weird. Using a variety of found imagery and vintage ephemera, he constructs warped visions that feel at once familiar and alien, like fragments of half-remembered films seen long ago.

Whether we call them our muse or the inspiration behind the creative endeavours that shape our lives, in her feminine power, I find a mother. I discover a blend of the empress and the high priestess tarot cards, beautifully rolled into one figure…

Poetry grounds me. It is an escape as much as a mirror of my thoughts and feelings, positive or negative. It helped me grow; it allows me to heal. Poetry is the lens I need to try to make sense of it all. Or to navigate the uncertainty, to say the least. ..

Creativity in its purest form is the act of invention. From stories to paintings to fashion garments – we are all inventing our own piece of art.  As children we often played with limited props, we used our imagination to re-create the world we saw around us…

We are all very aware of Aleister Crowley. We have certainly been told many stories of his time on earth. As an intriguing figure within the occult, I was never bothered by what people thought of him nor was I a follower…

When Clarice Lispector sat down to write this book she set out to “capture the present”, a place where she endeavours to capture life and time as she feels it…

A film study of the artwork of the famed painter and occultist Marjorie Cameron reveals many layers to her complex life and creative expression. Curtis Harrington shared insights with Cameron biographer Spencer Kansa in his book, Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron…

There is always work to be done. There is always space for progression in feminist art history. Equality is not a full stop; as art historians and researchers as well as practitioners, whilst looking ahead, we must also look backwards and interrogate the notion of ‘the archive’. What is missing? What has been lost?

Many years ago, I stumbled across a rather interesting looking magazine that was just right up my alley – it was called Morbid Curiosity. It was filled full of essays featuring ghosts, death, cemeteries, mummies, murder, spirits...the list goes on…

I think poetry is or can be a lot of things, but for me, it's always been a doorway. In a sense, it is the threshold between the incarnate and the intangible; it’s how we make material of the occult. A poem can be everything, really—defying and collapsing time and aspects of selves. So, maybe it is a way to express the soul?

Kainskult keeps all the basic building blocks of Perfection & Permanence: the tribal drumming, the atavistic propulsion, the clattering metal percussion, and the abysmal growls. But somehow it reaches a new level of intensity, both sonically and lyrically.