Witch Ladders
A witch ladder is a form of folk magic that originated from various pagan traditions within the United Kingdom, in which a practitioner would take a rope, and tie various materials in knots onto it, to accomplish a specific intention.
Pineapple (witch ladder 01)
2023
42” x 18” x 5”
Oil paint on Glazed Stoneware, Glazed stoneware beads and bottles, dyed sisal rope, acrylic yarn, embroidery floss, silver beads, cypress branch, feather, dryed grass, dirt, severed toe
Progress and Development
The Quickness (Witch ladder 02)
2025
38" x 27" x 6”
Porcelain tiles, Glazed Stoneware pendants, dyed sisal rope, yarn, embroidery floss, oil paint
Witch Ladder 03 (currently in development)
2025
41" x 9" x 9"
Glazed stoneware, sisal rope
Witchladder 01 progress Sketch
The Quickness (Witch Ladder 02)
This work is intentionally divided into 3 subsections: the tiles, the painted pendant center, and the lowest disk. This work is a study of the extrapolation of space visually, the tiles are the extraction of the work, its person, place and thing, separated into 3 to represent the 3 prime essences of the image. The three primes are the components within alchemical workings; salt representing the physical realm or aspect, the mercury is the soul or internal aspect, and sulfur the spirit or connection to the universe. The works are recombined within the central painted sections, unified by material. The final lowest section is the physical manifestation of the recombination, by focusing on a minute detail within the composition that might otherwise go unnoticed.