samhain in the underworld or southern hemisphere halloween

Spirit Walks Challenge

Ten groups have come together in a challenge to welcome All Hallow’s Eve/Samhain/Halloween, the beginning of winter, for the southern hemisphere.

The participating groups are Practising the Dark Arts; Blood Red – All things vampiric; Monsters Ink; THE PHANTASMAGORICAL; Short stories – Spherical Scriptings; 1 In The Beginning – Ancient Practices; Fantasy Art; The Art of 3D; Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales and Flash Fiction.

Background and Inspiration
All Hallow’s Eve is the day when the worlds merge, that of Spirit and flesh, where the veils are at their thinnest, and the Ancestors can freely roam between the two membranes of time and existence. We can communicate more clearly with them, communing together in dreams and shadows.
Samhain corresponds to the Wisdom Cycle of life, the Winter Deities, and thus ensures that our communing with the Ancestors is clear and well grounded.
Samhain is when the Wild Hunt emerges from Faerie to roam the winter countryside. Mortals getting in the path of the Hunt could be kidnapped and brought to the land of the dead.

How to be a part of it
Create an image and/or written work that captures the essence of an aspect of the above information in a way relevant to Dark Art and Occultism, psychosomatics's or the metaphysical theme of the group.
Add your work to the group, and paste a link to it in the forum topic here, so I know it’s an entry!
The challenge is open to the whole world, not just people in the southern hemisphere!

How it will work
Enter your work to the challenge as above BUT MAKE YOUR ENTRY RELEVANT TO THE GROUP THEME.
The hosts will judge a winning image and written work for the group.
The group winners will then be open to a public vote to pick the overall winners across all ten groups!

Entries close midnight (your time) April 28th.
Group winners will be announced April 30th, and public voting will run for a week (voting details will be provided at that time) to decide the overall winning image and written work (and winning group!)
Prizes are yet to be confirmed by RedBubble, but don’t let that hold you back from this record breaking, group collaborative challenge!

Written works need to be 1000 words or less. Poems and stories welcome.

This challenge is in the spirit of fun and group interaction, and is not about determining if one group is better than another :)

IF YOU DO NOT POST A LINK HERE TO LET ME KNOW IT IS AN ENTRY, IT WILL NOT BE INCLUDED...thanks

Following in the fine tradition of many of the other hosts on this wonderful space, a blog, the InkBlog, has been created to collate and highlight the movements of the seemingly sombre and yet incredibly artistically energetic Dark ARTists...

Dark art
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the art style.

Primarily a product of the 20th Century, dark art is an art style defined as that being dark or unsettling in nature. Called and classified under many names such as gothic, horror, metaphysical, nightmarish, and disturbing, it is actually a culmination of techniques and styles. It has been presented in many forms by many artists, illustrators and film-makers. It continues to grow in popularity as a part of the horror genre and gothic, music and publishing culture. Today, it a part of our mainstream culture, crossing over into multiple mediums including advertising, television, film, and marketing. While it has roots in horror, it has been presented in collage, surrealism, abstract, motion graphics, grunge, expressionism, and largely digital art.

This is definitive of many 'dark arts' however I consider it to be very broad, how would you describe the type of dark art you do?

If you are not a DARK ARTist, what type of Dark Art would you do if you were?

I would love to hear some other opinions about the perception of dark art in the broader community.

How do you feel, for example, when confronted with a lot of it as is the case in the dark art gallery?

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PARALLEL SPIRITUALITY

In another dimension, are we? Were we? Where are we? And what would we believe in?

Group challenge-spirituality in another dimension in the Parallel Dimensions group.

SPIRITUAL ART AND OPEN MINDEDNESS

Some artists have contributed to the art forum for Spiritual Equality...

Below is Tolerance by Katrina Prince Host of Spritual Art.



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BLACK INKY WRITING

There is particularly thought provoking written works in the group, this by the young Daath (soon to have a different name) Samael who was inpired by an image by burningark



Daughter of Chaos by Daath Samael

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SPHERICAL DARKNESS

The forever charming and quirky Empress has added a challenging Dark Arts thrill by challenging the members of the group to a writing challenge by the Short Stories and Spherical Scriptings Group.... to coincide with the June Solstice no less...

This is her forum post.

Welcome to crime writing weekenders in the Short Story Group ... there's one scheduled to coincide with the June solstice, surely a notable date on the Dark Arts calendar.

The theme or the ingredients goes live friday morning with the complete stories to be posted by midnight the monday after. For example: Marpellette Manor.

If you are so literary inclinded, you may also be interested in their Written in the Stars competition. THERE ARE BUBBLE CASH PRIZES OFFERED ON THIS ONE...

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VAMPIRES AND THE LIGHT

One of our members G.L. Giles writes books...

Gather her works by looking at these links...

On Lightworking is a free download.

www.TheVampireVignettesRevamped.net
www.vampirelibrary.com
www.amazon.com
www.barnesandnoble.com


Oh, and you might find her interview with Raven Digitalis (author of Goth Craft) interesting too, covering what it’s like to be a darksider, it will be a free download as well at www.metacreativemagazine.com on April Fools Day.

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Happy shadows...


Kathleen

FEATURE IMAGE
at night by Brigette Ferguson

www.redbubble.com/practising-dark-arts

An artistic celebration of melancholy
Occult, religion, fantasy, magic and mythology

For lovers of the supernatural, ethereal, metaphysical and psychological. The mystical and the fantastical… occult, religion, secrets and suspect… myth, legend and fantasy…

Not a place for the skeptic.

This is a place to share your theories on everything that exists without fear of retribution or being burnt at the stake.

Open to all genres and mediums, visual and written.

Don’t take it lightly!

This group is hosted by kathleen, persephone and aphroditethealmighty

Group Rules:

No unnecessary nudity (by my call sorry, subtle nudes will be considered, but mostly I would prefer very little, no full frontal stuff) and no seriously psychopathic stuff if it’s too disturbing for me you can argue with me why it should be re-posted…them the rules.

THIS GROUP IS PRIMARILY FOR APPRECIATION OF ART THAT IS INSPIRED BY TRADITIONAL OCCULT AND MYSTICISM… NO BONDAGE OR SHOCK GORE… THEY MAYBE DARK, BUT THIS GROUP IS NOT FOR THAT TYPE OF PSYCHOTIC DARKNESS… SORRY FOR ANY CONFUSION…

CELEBRATION OF MYSTICISM AND THE OCCULT IN ART… NOT FOR ACTUALLY PRACTISING WITCHCRAFT OR FOR DIRECTING MAGIC IN A PARTICULAR DIRECTION…