Welcome to the coven…
This newsletter will explore the magical activity on the canvases and between the pages of Modernism’s most enigmatic artists.
Here you will discover bubbling cauldrons, cackling crones, delirious saints, and pensive alchemists. You will fall down the rabbit-hole of how witchcraft of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance contributed to the philosophies of modernist art movements; you will unearth surrealist practices that can unleash your unconscious and add a dose of magic to every day existence; you will be enchanted.
This newsletter offers monthly deep dives and weekly reflections on individual painters, writers and thinkers who challenged traditional gender roles, societal norms and who brought magic to their work through an idiosyncratic prism.
I propose to you a form of moving through the world with an acute awareness that is unburdened by reason. Care to join me?
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