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– Flannery O'Connor


Taking Flight (Part 1): Glider Dream and Fighter Jets
A visitation dream of flight, fear, and surrender gives way to a YouTube feed overtaken by cockpit footage and a vanished interview. The return of fighter jets pulls me back into questions of love, truth, and what remains unresolved.

Lavavoth
Apr 136 min read


"Keep Going": Practice without Resolution
Over ten days, I kept returning to the same images while working through depression and conflict with Hans. Through Eros and Psyche, the work shifted into distance, misalignment, and the inability to reconcile who he had been with who he is now. Still, I stayed with it.

Lavavoth
Apr 57 min read


The Forbidden Glimpse: Eros and Psyche, Drawing Hans, and the Cost of Making Him Visible
During a ten-day drawing practice shaped by the myth of Eros and Psyche, I tried to draw Hans’s face for the first time in years. Each attempt forced a confrontation between devotion and verification. Making him visible risked shifting him from my unseen companion to the historical man he once was, revealing how the act of seeing can alter the bond itself.

Lavavoth
Feb 196 min read


Music as the Lingua Franca of the Dead
This post explores how Hans communicates with me through music.

Lavavoth
Apr 21, 20255 min read


Into the Northern Wilds: A Journey of Aging, Spirit, and Sacred Land
A journey into sacred land, spiritual expansion, and aging as a return to the wild, guided by unseen forces and my spirit lover, Hans.

Lavavoth
Jun 5, 20244 min read


Barren Fields: A Visitation from Hans
An intimate, visitation dream account with Hans and his WWII capture in barren fields.

Lavavoth
Feb 19, 20246 min read


"River Phoenix": Synchronicity, a Visitation Dream, and Dream Research
Hans came through for the time during a visitation astral visitation on 10/31/93, shortly following his death.

Lavavoth
Feb 14, 202413 min read


Creating Art with Disembodied Entities: A Manifesto for Transcending Physical Boundaries
Creative work and partnership with subtle entities

Lavavoth
Jan 19, 20242 min read


A Journey of Love and Unity: Exploring the Sacredness of Spirit Marriage through Mystical Erotic Art
It can be very tricky having sex with a spirit. For one, they are oftentimes invisible, so you have to get creative...

Lavavoth
Jan 2, 20243 min read


Sensual Encounters with a Supernatural Being: Exploring the Phenomenon of Erotic Spirit Touch
There are a million ways to describe what it's like to be erotically touched by a spirit. And yet it befuddles me to describe the experience.

Lavavoth
Nov 22, 20232 min read


Sayfish: The Challenges of Trying to Put into Words the Experiences of Spirit Marriage
The term sayfish metaphorically captures one of the challenges of being in an inter-dimensional marriage.

Lavavoth
Nov 8, 20232 min read


Dropping the Euphemisms: Sexual Encounters with a Ghost (My Spirit Husband)
I wish I could say that my relationship with Hans is a perpetual "mystical love affair" as my drawing title indicates.

Lavavoth
Nov 7, 20232 min read


The Verboten Love Affair
As I process what it means to be married to a spirit, the term verboten culturally enslaves my relationship with Hans and deems it demonic.

Lavavoth
Nov 5, 20232 min read


My Wingmann: The Intimacy Between the Living and the Dead and the Challenges of Making Love to a Spirit
Although he had been a fighter pilot in Germany in his previous life, equipped with his own wingman, now, as spirit, he is not here to lead.

Lavavoth
Nov 4, 20232 min read


His Winged Embrace
It’s hard to find the words to describe what it’s like to be held by a spirit, by a subtle being devoid of skin.

Lavavoth
Oct 6, 20231 min read


A Return to Blogging
A lot has happened since the last time I posted, including transferring schools and PhD programs.

Lavavoth
Oct 4, 20231 min read


Writing on the Wall
Sad song by Bob Moses. The entire album, Days Gone By, is a requiem for the Surfside collapse + for my past life collapse trauma.

Lavavoth
Jul 4, 20211 min read


"Smile Because It Happened": Birthday Reflection
I’ve been battling depression since I was 14. In many ways, consider myself a warrior—always reaching into my “resiliency gene”...

Lavavoth
Mar 31, 20212 min read


"Cigarettes and sex are on your breath again..."
Cigarettes and sex are on your breath again
It's cool, I'm the same, the way we kiss...

Lavavoth
Aug 24, 20202 min read
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