Dark Art & Craft

08/03/2026

Few artists have dissolved the boundary between image-making and occult practice as completely as Austin Osman Spare. His drawings were not simply illustrations of magical ideas. For Spare, the act of drawing could itself become a ritual—a method of reaching beneath ordinary consciousness and giving form to desires, spirits and hidden aspects of the self.

Few artists have dissolved the boundary between image-making and occult practice as completely as Austin Osman Spare. His drawings were not simply illustrations of magical ideas. For Spare, the act of drawing could itself become a ritual—a method of reaching beneath ordinary consciousness and givi...

08/03/2026

Some artists construct nightmares from recognizable symbols: skulls, demons, ruined landscapes or scenes of supernatural horror. Sibylle Ruppert created something less stable. In her drawings, the nightmare begins within the body itself.

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