Bailey Lewis

Storyteller ✦ Interactive Artist ✦ Writer

I live in a world of oracles, where everyday objects whisper stories to me about our collective yet deeply individual human experiences – stories old as time itself, yet as modern as you and me.

In my work, I am always led to the magic seam that runs beneath the surface of the seemingly mundane. For decades, I’ve studied and created narratives around mythology, mysticism, daily ritual, and what happens when the everyday world collides with an unexpected dose of wild magic.

The art operates off of mythic humor, surreal encounters, and mystical adventures that disarm us, so we can be open to the possibilities in our own personal, collective, communal, and global human stories.

Everyday oracles, lucky messenger objects, and stories of great fortune

My stories do not stay on the page. They live in the world as mystical, cosmic, mysterious mixed media story objects. In their full interactive storytelling mode, these are placed in site-specific, participatory experiences that are at once public and intimate, tangible and intuitive.

Every oracle carries its own story. From a constellation of these oracular choices - collage art cards, lucky messenger sculptures, and other unexpected objects of great fortune - one oracle will choose you. That is the one that has a story meant for you in that certain time, that certain space. It connects in some way to your own life and your own story. You have only to pick up the card, turn the dial, push the button, scan the code, open the envelope: to interact with the object and receive the story that it has for you that day.

The oracles ask only that you trust yourself, and choose.