Gay Incantations is a project started by Coral Short and Lucas Crawford. The pair offered 56 incantations across the internet to add some glitter and gold to the bleak month of February through their website and Facebook page. 

The One Project is a creative project by Bryce Evans designed to inspire and encourage people to realize their dreams by helping readers understand misconceptions about loneliness.

Bryce interviewed both Coral and Lucas about Gay Incantations and will be connecting with friends of the two to create new photographs for The One Project and an upcoming issue of Sad Mag. Below is an excerpt from the interview.

What are Gay Incantations?

Coral: GAY INCANTATIONS are about honesty and relevance to our inner worlds. Gay Incantations are CAPS LOCKS statuses on Facebook. They are psychic magical emissions towards a more loving gay community starting from a foundation of loving ourselves.

Lucas: Gay Incantations are attempts to use language, speech, and human connection to change the possibilities of our lives, our moods, and our days. They are succinct magic spells that we are casting on ourselves. They are little relics of depression hammered into hopes.

In The One Project, one of my main goals is to help people understand that loneliness is universal and it is something we all experience. Does education play a role in Gay Incantations to help erradicate hate?

C: Facebook, I believe, is a very lonely place at times – surfing through the statuses and photos… GAY INCANTATIONS are there to pierce this interface and interupt the feeds by encouraging us to flourish in our day to day lives.

L: I like the idea of thinking of them as educational, but in the sense of provocations rather than lessons. If we provoke some people to think differently or act differently in relation to their own loneliness or that of others, that would be a success in my books.