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About Me


Rebecca Kasner is a mysteriously archetypal enchanted storybook witch-princess. She was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1803, but she may not remember that because shortly thereafter was whisked away in a butter-churn by an old lady with iron teeth whose bones and skin and hair were all made of candy.
She was taken to a remote village in The Harz Mountains below The Brocken , where she learned the archaic arts of crithomancy (divination using cakes), belomancy (divination by arrows), lampadomancy (divination by a lamp), phyllorhodomancy (divination with rose leaves), and knife-throwing. She excelled at all of the above, and also became incredibly proficient at weaving offal into gold, transforming glass into water and remembering unspoken agreements.
Armed with this arcane knowledge, she struck out on her own and travelled the world in a rusty sieve, working as a part-time celestial spy and full-time in abecedarian espionage. She was enormously successful in these endeavors. She also makes lovely dolls.
Currently, all other details regarding this wondrous personage are classified- due to pending investigations regarding the unexplainable events surrounding the disappearance of the leaning tower of Pisa, and various accounts of spontaneous human combustion occurring in her vicinity. Rest assured, however, that wherever she is— Rebecca has got her eye on you, and knows what time your future is.
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STEPHEN KASNER WORKS: 1993 - 2006
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My Interests

witchcraft mishaps, stephen kasner, blood-stained handkerchiefs, victorian horror, compulsive thinking, carnivorous plants, clouds in my coffee, buttercups & violets, doubting today; believing tomorrow, each hearts whisper, fainting murdered petals, fingers beneath the snow, forging webs so subtle, gently welcoming darkestness, god's pretty mother, life's very fragile hours, the night-air aflutter with pearls, pale important stars, remembering unspoken agreements, riding the echo down, sharpening air, silver fingered vision guides, standing helplessly in lost-lands, stars in their silence, stepping sideways in time, subtle body weaving, the yes of yes, opening your eyes, twitching eyelids and fingers, anthropomancy & cleidomancy, antiquated hand-mirrors, black patchwork, butterflies on the wall, carnival relics, celebrity murder, chinese snuff bottles, conversion disorder, creating terrifying illusions, curious antique gems, dark eyes + soft lights, the deepest secrets nobody knows, delicately rotting dresses, doomsday serenades, drowned pennies; dead wishes, early 1960's cocktail parties, elf shot lame witch, existential horror films, eyes which never smile, fibonacci numbers & nature, fingers without hands, floating cards over dinner, forced superstition, gallery ov invisible women, gaslighting my enemies, gathering clouds, ghostly vignettes, ghosts in love, glass (h)armonicas, glass-grapes & black candles, graves ov murder victims, grotesque acts of blasphemy, hand-signals - charlie style, haunted hospital wings, heathcliff: it's me - kathy, hiding-treasure, homemade dolls, important funerals at dusk, insomnia & silent films, illumination, knife throwing incidents, making things unusual, making unusual things, misty sunless afternoons ?, my skeleton keys, napping under willow trees, nina hagen's eye-liner, norwegian blackmetal murder, oinomancy & rhapsodmancy, old fashioned cheesecake magazines, olio acts, one tiny little blessing, opalescent blue blood, parlour - tricks, pazuzu's shadow, pervading silent auras, poisoned tea parties, practicing demonic mastery, pulling your insides out, pyroscopy & skatharomancy, red lips; black-hair, rusted daggers, satanic burlesque shows, sliding down rainbows, somber speaking voices, spoons & knives, stained glass coffins, sultry torch songs, surprise(!) endings, suspicious automatic letters, swinging from the stars, taking photos of ghosts, tanas root, the bicycle tree, the golden theory, thee uselessness ov everything, thomas californian theatre 287, threadbare persian rugs, treasurehiding.com, trelkovsky's suicide attempts, tura satana's boots, two-headed girls, uneasy moments of deja-vu, united mental force, unsettling compositions, unusual bookbindings, urim v'tumim, using knucklebones, vaudeville slang, verbal misanthropy, victorian die-cuts, vintage black umbrellas, violin music at night, warm arterial sprays, waxing & waning, and weird knives

I'd like to meet:

the witch in the forest, knife throwing experts, charlie nobody, wayward fusspots, smart alecks, lonely hearts, captain howdy, melody gloucester pegasus, them heavy people, dolls, underloved cult members, menacing moppets, girl-ghosts in white nightgowns, little andy or jenny, people who speak wholly to bewitch, pinto colvig, catatonic posturers, phobe caulfield, thunder perfect minds, sweet invisible faces, mehitabel & archy, an almost someone, you who are silent, and all of them witches

Music:

The Trench Sisters, Stephen Kasner, Coughlan Sisters, Tara VanFlower, Madeleine Lila Jain, Black Happy Day, Swans, Gavin Bryers, Nick Cave, C17H19NO3, Current 93, Lycia, Michael Gira, Dead Voices On Air, Coil, Vidna Obmana, Julie London, Jarboe, Krzysztof Komeda, Yma Sumac, Skinny Puppy, Molly Drake, Rusty in Orchestraville, Angelblood, Nurse With Wound, Lee Hazelwood, Patience & Prudence, Crass, Rachel's, Molly Drake, Lustmord, Lucienne Delyle, Kate Bush, Christian Death, Sunn O))), Nina Hagen, Death In June, Frehel, O Yuki Conjugate, Legendary Pink Dots, Edith Piaf, Chaos As Shelter, Tiger Lilies, Shinjuku Thief, Black Sabbath, Lydia Lunch, Suzy Solidor, Dungen, Cocteau Twins, Jucifer, X, Dolly Parton, Tuvan Throatsinging, Harold Budd, Witchcraft, Thai Elephant Orchestra, Antony & the Johnsons, Goblin, Siouxsie + The Banshees, Plinth, Amber Asylum, Mistinguette, Vincent Gallo, Billie Holiday, Life Toward Twilight, Elvis Presely, Nature + Organisation, Little People's Band in Forestland, Rose McDowall, Misfits, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Heart, Muslimgauze, David Bowie, Tiny Tim, Raison D'etre, The Beatles, Foetus, Bernard Hermann, Devo, Diamanda Galas, Johnny Cash, Marlene Dietrich, 45 Grave, Forrest Fang, This Mortal Coil, T-Rex, Burzum, The Angels Of Light, Twink, and Wagner

Movies:

Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, The Exorcist, Titler, The Dancin' Outlaw, Rosemary's Baby, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Grey Gardens, Samson VS. The Supreme Dictator From Outer Space, Tourist Trap, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Rubin & Ed, The Piano, Satanis, Rat Pfink A Boo-Boo, The Tenant, Night of the Living Dead, Frankie of the Head, Invocation of My Demon Brother, Magnolia, Harold & Maude, La Jetee, The King of Comedy, The Reflecting Skin, It Happened One Night, Dementia 13, Tale of Two Sisters, Drop Dead Fred, Freaks, Wizard of Oz, The Goddess Bunny, Repulsion, Charlotte's Web, The Wicker Man, Dracula, Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure, Speak of the Devil, Heavenly Creatures, Spider Baby, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Carnival of Souls, Liquid Sky, The Elephant Man, Sweetie, Gone With the Wind, I Spit on Your Grave, The Jerk, The More The Scarier, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Pin, Gaslight, and The Thing With Two Heads.

Television:

Night Gallery, Twilight Zone, Dark Shadows, Carnivale

Books:

We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Under A Glass Bell, The Dreams in the Witch House, I Wear The Morning Star, The Compleat Witch, Christiane F, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, The Story of O, Search For The Lonely Doll

Heroes:

Madeleine + Kimmi Kill

My Blog

New Stephen Kasner LIMITED EDITON T-shirt

Available Now at shirts and destroy...
Posted by rebecca on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:01:00 PST

Mouchette

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSeIlQHthJI ...
Posted by rebecca on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:45:00 PST

MY NAME IS OONA

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Posted by rebecca on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:36:00 PST

7 New Stephen Kasner Originals For Sale

Perfect for people who don't have the budget for large paintings, but want to start collecting fine art.visit the PROOF section.(Feel Free to repost this. Thanks!)...
Posted by rebecca on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:06:00 PST

Stephen Kasner/Utech Records Release 1

Utech Records and artist Stephen Kasner have begun a year long collaborative project called UR/SK. The series will be comprised of nine limited edition releases (of only 750 copies) over the course of...
Posted by rebecca on Sun, 25 May 2008 01:51:00 PST

Sex Advice From Knife Throwers

Nerve.com interviewed me for their weekly sex advice column. Read it here:Sex Advice From Knife ThrowersAnd be sure to Digg it!? ...
Posted by rebecca on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:01:00 PST

stephenkasner.com updates

Circle-9 releases six new Stephen Kasner prints.Circle-9 is proud to announce the release of six new Stephen Kasner limited edition prints. Skyscapes, a series of selected photographs taken in 2006, a...
Posted by rebecca on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:37:00 PST

Letter to Editor. . .

A beautiful "letter to the editor" was printed in the Sacramento Bee this week, regarding the article they recently ran about Stephen.You can read the letter HERE, and I have also posted it, below. St...
Posted by rebecca on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:32:00 PST

Visions in the Dark- article in the Sacramento Bee

Find the full article with photos and more at The Sacramento Bee!Visions in the darkStephen Kasner's art (call it 'creepy-mysterious') has lots of fans. But it isn't for everyone.By Rachel Leibrock - ...
Posted by rebecca on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:39:00 PST

Vice Magazine / Dwid Hellion. . .

http://book.stephenkasner.comfeel free to repost...
Posted by rebecca on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:11:00 PST