Team: Artifice

Where imagination becomes artifact.

Team: Artifice is the creative umbrella of Jacqueline Riel Flores—a multidisciplinary studio devoted to stories, art, music, games, spiritual work, and handmade magic.

 At its heart, Team: Artifice is a home for creative transformation. It is where ideas become books, symbols become art, melodies become hauntings, games become worlds, and quiet sparks of inspiration become tangible things you can hold, hear, read, play, wear, or carry with you.

 This is not a single project. It is a constellation.

 A workshop.

 A spellbook with Wi-Fi.

 A place for beautiful inventions, strange little wonders, and meaningful artifacts made with heart.

 What We Create

 Team: Artifice brings together many branches of creative work, including:

 Books & Writing
Fantasy, horror, poetry, flash fiction, spiritual essays, and myth-soaked storytelling from Jacqueline the Wordslinger.

Art & Beadwork
Handmade beadwork, jewelry, decorative objects, sigils, visual art, and crafted pieces rooted in color, symbolism, and intention.

Music & Audio
Experimental music, demos, and sonic explorations released through the musician persona Null Set.

Vocal Work
Narration, voice over, audiobooks, silly voices just for fun under the pseudonym The Baritone Babe.

Games & Interactive Worlds
Narrative-driven games, browser-based experiments, worldbuilding projects, and playful systems designed for story, mood, and meaning by Third|Best Games.

Tarot & Spiritual Offerings
Intuitive readings, reflection, symbolic guidance, and spiritual work are offered through Ana Cerise Riel Lineata.

Our Creative Philosophy

Team: Artifice believes that imagination is not frivolous.

It is survival.

It is medicine.

It is rebellion.

It is how we turn pain into pattern, memory into myth, and scattered fragments into something whole enough to shine.

Every project under Team: Artifice begins with a simple question:

What wants to become real?

Sometimes the answer is a novel. Sometimes it is a song. Sometimes it is a beaded bottle, a tarot reading, a game prototype, a sigil, a character, a creature, a joke that got out of hand and built itself a tiny house.

We respect the process. Even when the process arrives wearing goblin boots and carrying three half-finished notebooks.

Especially then.

The Meaning of Artifice

To us, artifice is not deception.

It is sacred making.

It is the deliberate act of shaping raw imagination into form. It is the bridge between dream and object, between inner vision and outer world.

Artifice is craft.

Artifice is invention.

Artifice is the moment the unseen becomes visible.

Our Motto

We are the dreamers of the dreams.

Team: Artifice exists for the seekers, oddballs, storytellers, makers, mystics, gamers, wanderers, soft-hearted rebels, and anyone who has ever looked at the ordinary world and thought:

There should be more magic here.

We agree.

So we’re making some.