#13 - Jesse Bransford, Art Mage
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Jesse Bransford is an occult artist, a teacher, and an esoteric scholar. His drawings incorporate various magical systems and divine iconography, becoming visual spells in and of themselves. Bransford’s new book of Icelandic sigil drawings, A Book of Staves, is being published this month by Fulgur Esoterica, and many of the drawings will be on view at his solo show opening at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn on April 21st. On this episode, he discusses his development as an imagery witch, his experience being the Professor Snape of NYU’s fine art program, and how he came to realize that art and magic are one and the same.
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| 0:59.0 | Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Pam Grossman and this is the witch wave. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, inside you could add me a friend. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, suddenly, she's in the night. Nothing to my face |
| 1:33.0 | face a rooted you can think |
| 1:39.0 | and please. |
| 1:42.0 | Hello and welcome to the witch wave. Yes, witches, it's our 13th episode and it's a mighty special one because it features a conversation with one of my dearest friends, |
| 1:55.4 | an absolute favorite artist in the world, Jesse Bransford. |
| 1:59.8 | And I'll tell you all about him in a few moments. But first I want to talk about the number |
| 2:05.4 | 13 because it is a number that is very close to my witchly little heart. Like the word witch, the number 13 has been maligned for centuries, but actually |
| 2:19.2 | has great magic associated with it. |
| 2:22.8 | And some of those associations are in fact quite whichly. |
| 2:27.6 | But how did the number 13 become considered |
| 2:30.1 | to be unlucky in the first place? So much so that you'll still find buildings that skip 13 in their floor numbering systems. |
| 2:39.0 | As Louisa Teish writes in her groundbreaking book Jumbeliah, quote, |
| 2:45.0 | superstition is a belief or practice whose origin and context |
| 2:51.0 | has been lost to us and or is in conflict with the beliefs of the |
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