I Was That Weird Kid.
Hi, my name is Yagama. I am a multidisciplinary artist and mystic.
I call myself an "art witch" because painting, poetry, video, performance, and mixed media flow through me from the Source. My mission is to dare you to question "reality," and help you find your inner Power. I stir the sacred and the profane into a potion to reveal the divine essence in every being. And I'm here to help you sharpen your teeth, so we can bite the patriarchy together!
Read my story below, check out my art, browse my shop and see what I can offer you to unleash your colours!
By day, I was bullied. I tried, and failed to fit in.
By night, the fabled Baba Yaga chased me. Tired of running, I surrendered.
Within the bowels of a nightmare, my journey began.
Only years later did I understand that this was my first initiation.​​
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I dared myself to start making art and channel my vision.
But it took me years to truly embrace my wildness...
To find my truth, I had to dive in, no holds barred.
I walked twisted paths, teetering between self-doubt and rapture. Homeless in NYC, I felt unwanted, unfit for this world.
An abyss yawned inside me, and I tried to fill it with wild abandon.
I experimented with substances, trying to peek into the nature of Reality.
But soon I found myself running in a circle. On my quest into the unknown, I kept catching glimpses of my soul reflected in the eyes of friends and strangers, and that kept me going.​
Art became my alchemy.
It grounded me, helped me process, and inspired me to make my time on Earth count.​​
My most life-changing moment with art was also the most painful.
In 2004, I gathered friends to create towering sculptures of Bulgarian folklore beings—guardians meant to honour the land and protect festival-goers.
One morning, they were destroyed by men who called me a witch.
It hurt to see my work spark such patriarchal fears, but I understood:
Art is magic, and it works.
The sculptures had done their job—absorbing and redirecting negativity.​
​​I learned that fear and limiting beliefs can be transmuted in the cauldron of creativity— but only if we dare to step beyond the comfort zone.​
Just plug into the Source, and let Art flow through.
Yearning for a community of fellow free spirits, I co-founded the Uga Buga Art collective.
In love with labyrinths, we produced a series of them at events and public spaces, followed by a number of short films.​
Motherhood cracked me open more than any drug, vision or mantra. In my womb, I discovered the womb of the world.
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Birthing took me to a place beyond pain and self, sacred and profane. A place beyond cares, yet full of all the care in the world. A place where nobody is an outsider, nothing is unwanted, and everything is one...
I carried a red thread from that sacred place and wove it into my work—an offering to the Goddess in you and me.
As I I embarked on raising my daughter, a new me came forth. Becoming a mother had been my biggest fear. I hadn't planned on bringing a child into a world about to fall apart.​
This experience taught me to own my vulnerability and deepened my responsibility to this physical plane, a connection I had ignored, caught up in the pain of being an outcast.
​Mothering rekindled my hope for all of us sharing this wild, beautiful planet. It re-rooted me in the vast mycelium of being.
I no longer hide behind the mask of an outsider — I am who I am and I love it!
