Are UFOs, fairies, angels and ghosts one phenomenon that every era explains in its own language? Brooklyn artist, curator and "Witch, Yes!" co-host Terra Keck joins Alex Coma for the Solar half of her Blue Hour diptych.
We get into Jacques Vallée's Passport to Magonia and why spirit, angel, fairy and UFO encounters share the same "symptoms"; the haunted Park Slope brownstone where a voice came through her co-host's mic; trading Wicca for being "a very magical girl"; Blavatsky and Theosophy; Alex on Vedic astrology, the Atmakaraka and the 27 Nakshatras; why we're all kids performing adulthood; how therapy and letting emotions move are bringing color into her once-monochrome work; curating a malevolent fairy garden party at Field Projects; and why Terra thinks the art market's collapse is necessary.
Next Monday, the Lunar episode goes up to Terra's studio and into how she makes drawings by erasing.
Visionary Roze Gift: applications close October 15. Seven gifts, including $1,750 CAD and a two-week residency in Spain for first place. www.rozeumbra.com/visionaryrozegift
Chapters
(00:00) Intro
(02:18) From witchcraft to "magical girl"
(08:58) Theosophy & Helena Blavatsky
(11:47) Vedic astrology: the Moon, Atmakaraka & Nakshatras
(15:49) Passport to Magonia: UFOs, fairies & angels
(21:55) A haunted brownstone & a voice on the mic
(26:53) How the research changed her art
(28:56) We're all children performing adulthood
(36:35) Why a monochrome artist is turning to color
(38:15) Unlearning a lifetime of emotional control
(45:43) Curating at Field Projects & the Cottingley Fairies
(53:13) What it means to be an artist right now
(01:00:28) Is the art market collapse necessary?
(01:02:00) Outro & the Visionary Roze Gift
Terra Keck: terrakeck.com · Instagram @herlovelyface
Witch, Yes!: linktr.ee/witchyes
Roze Umbra: www.rozeumbra.com · Instagram @rozeumbra
Alex Coma: Instagram @alexcoma.world
Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@rozeumbra
