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The Undying Flame Project.

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The Undying Flame: The Zakk Wylde Amulet Project Some projects I embark on have deep personal meaning. Creation usually comes from inspiration and need, and for years I’ve had an idea burning in my mind that simply refused to go away. The project I’ve been working on began with music, admiration, sorcery, and a guitar player who has been an inspiration to me since I was a kid back in my home country. I grew up in El Salvador without much. My mother tried her best to take care of me, my twin sisters, herself, and, by extension, my grandfather. Financially speaking, those times were tough. And I wanted to learn to play guitar so fucking bad. I’ve always had this thing where, if I truly put my mind to something, somehow I manage to work hard enough to make it happen. I knew buying a guitar could be difficult for my mother, so I started formulating plans of my own. Eventually, I ended up talking to the director of our public Catholic school. She was a nun who wasn’t a native Spanish ...
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Capas de La Niña – Dresses and Capes for Santísima Muerte

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  When I first opened Manticore’s Den years back, I had a small Etsy shop where I worked alongside my mother to offer custom dresses for Santísima Muerte. Every statue is different, every figure carved in its own way, so each client would send measurements and my mother would bring the dress to life by hand. That service wasn’t just sewing — it was spirit-led. My practices were deepening, and I was forming alliances with spirits along the way. Santísima Muerte is one of those forces I don’t speak about often, but the relationship has always been there. I used to talk with my mother about my ventures into the occult, and it was Santísima herself who sparked an image in my mother’s mind: the vision of a dress. That first dress was beautiful, unique, alive. After that, friends who worked with Santísima began asking for their own. Each dress followed the same rhythm: contemplation, vision, creation. My mother always started with her personal statue, dressing it as the model, and from...
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