'The Cunning' is a series of analogue photographs exploring contemporary cunning craft. Based in personal practices these images are a documentation of herb witchery, folk medicine, divination, pilgrimage, and spell casting. Astrological magic plays a key role in these practices, in ritual timing and in sympathetic magic.
As I discussed in my 2022 Astromagia presentation, the creation of images in the darkroom uses astrological days and hours and is an alchemical tempering of the Sun (light) and the Moon (silver present in the silver gelatin).
Linsey Gosper is an artist and magic practitioner based on Bundjalung country, NSW Australia. Their creative practice is an intersection of art and magic, Linsey has an active ritual practice which informs their artwork as an area of research, play and documentation. Working predominantly with photography and installation they experiment with the materiality of the photographic medium through darkroom processes, incorporating various magical techniques in the production of the images. Since 2019 Linsey has been sharing their experience and knowledge of magic through facilitating rituals, tarot readings, presenting at conferences, and writing about plant magic and astrological magic.