They Call Me Witch
Artist & Works
Byuka Makodru aka Fortune Tailed Beast


Byuka Makodru Fortune Tailed Beast(they/them) is a trans and migrant artist, witch, dancer, movement director & poet based in London.
They explore folk futurism and practices of queer-animist world building through performances, film, community rituals & workshops.
Their work plays with ancestral healing, embodied ecologies, speculative fiction, divination & intimacy.
They co-curated an exhibition about queer future ancestry with Arts Council funding in collaboration with Mimosa House and Queer Circle in 2025. And they are the researcher, facilitator and curator of their project Lunarrr Playgroundz - a ritual healing space for the queer community, where creativity and spirituality intersect following the ancient technology of moon magic.
Their work has been shown at the Royal Albert Hall, Iklektik, Camden's People Theatre, the National Gallery, Matchstick Piehouse, Ugly Duck, The Barbican, Guildhall, BBC Sounds, Mimosa House, Queer Circle, House of Annetta.

ins: @fortunetailedbeast



Miraculous Alchemies (Turn my lead to silver)(2025)
 
old honey combs, silver leaf, hair, handmade paper, metal wire


Miraculous Alchemies (Turn my lead to silver) is a Grimoire, a magic book grown through honey comb, moonlight infused honey and fur offerings. This book is alive, shapeshifting, humming with the sound of bees and the healing howls of the outcasted ones – human and nonhuman, who spellcast stories of communal resistance, symbiosis, adaptation and multispecies ancestrality.
The book is part of an alchemy laboratory from the future. The lab is inhabited by The Fortune Tailed Beast, a creature who creates experiments for the unification and transmutation of binaries: light & dark, male & female, culture & nature, animal & human - a mythological transness questioning human supremacy. This is the great spiritual and alchemical work towards radical compassion, freedom from repression, and the celebratory power of our self expression.
Uniting wolf folklore, ecological activism and witchcraft, the book is also an offering to the wolves of this land, who were hunted down to their extinction.
The Grimoire invites you to read the story inside it, or to sit down and enjoy listening. Afterwards, come and receive an alchemical blessing - touch the frames of the book, while you close your eyes and take a few deep breaths, allowing the moonlight honey to slither into your heart.