#16 - Rebecca Artemisa, Bruja Painter
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2018
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Artemisa is an artist and zine maker who calls herself “a bruja who paints spells.” Her works are extravagantly detailed and darling tableaux that incorporate myths and magic from her own Chicanx and Indigenous heritage, and each piece is customized with special symbols and ingredients meant to bless the recipient. Rebecca discusses the spellcraft that goes into her paintings and the ways in which her multiplicity of identities informs her work.
Pam also shares thoughts on appreciation vs. appropriation of different spiritual traditions.
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| 2:18.0 | The world is filled with bewitching people, and you might be one too. |
| 2:20.0 | Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams. |
| 2:27.0 | I'm Pam Grossman, and this is the witch wave. suddenly shakes in the night. |
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