Rainbow-Washed Correspondence
The holiday season offers many delights, among them the chance to gather with loved ones, share meals and conversation, and reflect on the turning of the year. What of our far-off friends, though? I’ve found that,...
Mori Girl Child Of The Forest
PHOTOGRAPHER HAKARYO WITH AMARIS PHOTOGRAPHY
MODEL ZING RUBY
Japan: culture of both Miyazaki's mythic forests and trend-setting Tokyo. It’s a land of creative expression, and one very visible outlet for this expression is fashion.
Over the last...
Wrought By Rasputina
Rasputina’s formidable back catalog is like an old history library, the tiered kind, with sliding ladders, stained-glass windows, and oiled wood, where gilt-embossed titles catch the late-afternoon sunlight glinting from leather spines. Yet when...
Visual Alchemy: The Art and Tarot of DividingMe
Article taken from Issue #32 || Autumn 2015
Print || Digital
Throughly exploring an artwork by Rusty McDonald of DividingME Photography is like viewing an achingly lovely landscape through fog, or listing to beautiful music under water. There’s...
An Invocation to Witches
Photography: Val Gleason (@vallerina01)
Models: Tiffany Megan (@the.seasonal.scottish.lass), Ginkgo Greene (@ginkgogreene), Haylie Hopkins (@hotmesshaylie)
When searching for the right cover for this vintage witch issue, there were so many possibilities. The figure of the witch is...
Fairies in Advertising
Fairies are notorious for tricking folks into making bad decisions. (See Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: transformations, potions, falling in love with jackasses.) So it’s natural that hucksters, peddling their own magic and illusions, would people...
Fairy Felted Creations
Incorporating a love of all things fairy tale and fairy into day-to-day life is a constant challenge. It helps to find little ways to add a touch of whimsy or magic into everyday wardrobe...
Druids Dance
Photography by Ange Harper
“There’s no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands.”
—Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Figures in white emerge from the swirling mists...
Visions of Enchantment
A dragon-like sea monster rears above a ship, terrifying in its unleashed rage, yet beautiful—delicate scales, a sinuous grace to its form.
A maiden cautiously steps into a fairy ring, her garments diaphanous, her expression concerned....
Paper Moon Tutorial
For our celestial cover shoot, we tapped Baltimore artist Nichole Leavy to create a full-scale paper moon for the shoot in photo editor Steve Parke’s studio. (Leavy created the painted backdrop for our winter...