Snakes for Hair

𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐢, the Great Mother.

𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐢. Illustration + watercolor + digital textile-pattern overlay.

Current moody, broody.

𝒫𝓊𝓇𝓇𝓇!

Happy Orthodox Easter. You are not in the World but the World is in you.

𝐀 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐝 𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐞, or “from possibility to actuality,” or “from being able to being.” Happy Easter & Orthodox Easter.

Scroll for my new flame, 𝐀𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬. For clarity, focus, revelations, & seeing through delulu.

“We use her name in ‘veneration’ and ‘vain.’ The original Venus rules charm and beauty, herbs and cypress trees.”
- The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets.

Year of the Snake coming to a close (Horse, you up.) I love the Lunar New Year so much I commemorated it with a candle this year. 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 (scent is incense, rose & peppercorn) blesses the New Year, our ancestors, our unions (the symbol is often seen in weddings as well). If you’ve been following my work, you know how much it is influenced by New York and all of its special enclaves. Chinatown is one of my favorites and the double happiness symbol is everywhere right now.
Not my work in this carousel is 1.) Riso print of a bridal couple from , a bookshop dedicated to SWANA, which sadly had to close and I await their hopeful reopen. Hat by via . The P@lestine flag sighting is at who do great work advocating for immigrants.
Shoutout to all the world humans who make New York and America what it is, even though I think borders are absurd. Shoutout to my Dad who made it over here from Romania, and to my Mom’s Viking family before her (shoutout to grandma’s Minnesota).
I have hope that like a snake, the world is shedding its skin. It’s not a stepwise process and maybe we will be alternating between darkness and light for a while. But the Sun will rise and we will try again.

live & on the premises Tarot readings tomorrow (Saturday) from 12-7. DM me and/or stop by for your love fortune at our week-long V-day pop-up💕🔮🌹.