Stories
Blood, saliva, tears, milk, skin, hair and other bodily substances carry powerful associations in visual culture. They can signify ancestry, vulnerability,…
Across cultures, the spiral has represented growth, change, return and renewal. It appears in shells, galaxies, whirlpools, fern fronds and the turning paths…
The inner child carries the textures of our earliest joys and oldest wounds, and when we bring that younger self to a canvas, something remarkable begins to…
A rune cast is not a fortune-telling parlour trick. In the shamanic tradition that Imelda Almqvist works within, throwing tokens across a cloth is a…
Across continents and centuries, humanity has painted, sung, and carved a recurring figure: the Great Mother. She rises in cave walls in France, in Vedic hymns…
Shamanic traditions across the world speak of four tangible elements—earth, water, fire, and air—yet most acknowledge a fifth: spirit. This unseen force…
A medicine shield is a circle of intention made visible. Across many wisdom traditions, it serves as a portable altar — an object that holds prayers, symbols,…
Across mythologies, masculine divinity is often represented through antlers, horns, radiance, sovereignty and the power to protect life. These images do not…
Dream weaving speaks to a quiet magic: the gathering of disparate threads of imagery, memory, and symbol, then pulling them onto a surface until a coherent…
Totem poles rise from the earth as carved prayers, their figures stacked like vertebrae of a living story. Paint can perform the same surgery on the soul,…