
Amy Hale on the Magical Life and Art of Ithell Colquhoun
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The Art of a Modern Occultist
In the spiritual practice of a modern occultist, you can do both these things, right? Now she's interested in all this stuff, and she's an artist. She makes artworks. You have taken the interpretive approach that we should very much approach her artwork as part of her spiritual practice. Is that an accurate paraphrase of your approach? Well, I think she was always an artist. So when she finds surrealism, especially knowing that the surrealists were into a lot of this stuff too, it just drives her magical practice. It kind of cuts a number of different ways.
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