BLACK SPRING WEEKLY — Issue 50: The Veil Parts at the First Turning
Issue 50 of Black Spring Weekly marks a quiet return and a slight reset, a recalibration, and the beginning of something new. After a short pause, this issue steps back into the studio with fresh intent, exploring the idea of the artist not just as a creator, but as something closer to a practitioner… a conjurer of form, symbol, and meaning.
This week drifts between sketchbook fragments, half-formed ideas, and the slow rebuilding of creative discipline. There’s a renewed focus on drawing and sketching, which is the foundations of practice, alongside the pressure of unfinished paintings waiting to be resolved. It’s messy, honest, and very real.
Threaded throughout is the influence of W. B. Yeats my all time faveourite poet, mystic, and magician, who helps the setting the tone for April’s deeper dive into art as ritual. The studio becomes more than a workspace; it becomes a threshold. Preparation, repetition, and intention begin to mirror something older, something almost ceremonial.
Elsewhere, the journal captures the everyday: growing cress, small wins in sketching, weight loss struggles, strange internet rabbit holes, and moments of unexpected beauty, like a sudden rainbow cutting through the noise. It’s a reminder that creativity doesn’t exist in isolation; it’s woven into everything.
The Fascination section leans fully into this idea, exploring the artist’s space as a ritual environment, where tools, process, and repetition take on symbolic weight. Paired with a dark, atmospheric playlist and a deep dive into The Inmost Light by Current 93, the issue builds a mood that’s introspective, strange, and quietly powerful. Black Spring Weekly remains a free, ongoing artist journal, part diary, part sketchbook, part ritual. Step back in. Start again.
You can download the zine here, https://mega.nz/file/ld8QyQ7A#RTdc4hTjJog4wz9g7zu6y7eZ-yj8QrQDPtb-Wgstr3U