On Riding Broomsticks

Life is Art Collective Portraits Sessions with Luke Gilford

It is a revelation to learn the origin of witches on broomsticks. This was learned from a rare and beautifully printed quarterly on myth and entheogens, published by a brilliant (and handsome) Italian whose name has escaped. The witches would smear a psychoactive salve, or flying ointment, on their broomsticks and ecstatically ride, absorbing the hallucinogenic compounds through the mucus membranes of their delicate parts. They would then lie still, passed out to the mundane eye, but in flight high over country and town by their own recollections.

With Luke Gilford present to shoot, Life is Art Collective and our Eiffel Society guest artists decided to reenact the ritual.

And it was good.