Some artworks don't simply ask us to look. They feel like doors.

In the new Transmute Tapes, we speak with writer and curator Sarah Elizabeth about darkness, occult art, monsters, ritual, altered states, forgotten knowledge — and our very human attraction to things we cannot fully explain.

We talk about the childhood fears that became fascination, the first artwork that truly spoke to her, artists as explorers of other realities, the monsters of our technological age, current obsessions — and her extraordinary new book The Art of the Unknown.

At the heart of the conversation is one deceptively simple question: What happens when we accept that we don't know? And could one of art's most important roles today be to protect that unknown?

New episode of Transmute Tapes — Sarah Elizabeth: Art, Darkness & the Unknown. All episodes on www.maison-douce.com

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