Creative Bewitchment
Creative Bewitchment is a series of audio essays for magical artists seeking to deepen their craft. Each week, painter Elisa Vita guides you through the realms of folklore, archetypes, astrology, and spellwork, offering insight and inspiration across mediums. Linger to your heart’s content. You’ll leave with your second sight sharpened, ready to create.
Episodes
13 episodes
Saturn's Return: Stoking Creative Success Through Sacrifice
A creative life demands sacrifice long before it offers reward. Through the lens of Saturn and his two traditional signs—Aquarius and Capricorn—this essay explores why artists are asked to surrender approval, certainty, and even respect in exch...
Why Artists Need Familiar Spirits in the Age of AI
Peers and professors told me to dismantle my practice. I chose to deepen it instead.In this essay, I explore the concept of artistic familiars: the recurring themes, symbols, subjects, and obsessions that haunt our creative lives. Drawin...
Going Unseen? Build Your Art Brand Like an Altar
As an artist, visibility isn't solely a byproduct of benevolent algorithms or luck; it comes from building a brand that reflects the spirit of your work. Drawing from the law of correspondence, altar-building, and my own experience as an artist...
Fairy Temporality: Balancing Awe & Admin as an Artist
In this episode, I explore the tension between awe and obligation that shapes an artist’s life. Drawing on folklore and the mythology of the fey, I share how we can protect our creative immersion while honouring our mundane responsibilities.
How to Amplify Your Art's Aura Online
In this episode, I explore the concept of artistic aura and what it means to preserve—and even amplify—it online. Drawing on Walter Benjamin's seminal essay, I examine whether digital reproduction truly diminishes an artwork's presence, and how...
Soulful Selling & Being a Priestess of Your Art
What if telling people your art is for sale felt like an act of devotion instead of a chore?In this audio essay, I share soulful strategies for selling your art without feeling like a fraud. Using tarot archetypes as a framework, I explo...
The Protective Magic of Honing Your Artistic Voice
A viral Instagram artist accusing another of plagiarizing them has me considering what exactly it means to make distinctive work and to have ownership of your art. This led me to explore how honing your artistic voice protects against compariso...
How Artists Can Thrive Despite AI: Embracing the Trickster
As AI-generated art floods the internet, many artists are questioning how to stay relevant. Using the archetypal Trickster as a guide, I illustrate exactly how creatives can outshine artificial intelligence and reclaim their power. ...
Share Your Art Without Burnout: Lessons from Persephone
Many artists begin the year with the goal of posting more, building an audience, or documenting their process, only to fall off during the dark winter months. As spring returns, so does our motivation. Still, for many of us, that spark is accom...
Sometimes Artists Need a Second Spring: Relaunching Tuesday!
Where I've been, and where you and I are headed.
Mycelial Muses: Attention, Allure & the Forest Floor
Fungi were once mistaken for plants. It took centuries for them to be recognized as a kingdom of their own. Artists, too, must learn to claim that kind of sovereignty—to stand apart and thrive in strange soil.In this audio