creation
This was the first art project influenced from LSD. Its a rendition
of the phallus; part of my own personal reawakening and destructuring,
the very beginning, actually.
convergence
An abstract oil painting calling upon deeply imprinted resonances
of eastern, erotic, organic, and primordial qualities.
elf
Prince
Along with the white rabbit, i've mapped the idea of the elf into
representation which helps describe the non ordinary aspects of reality
in a systematic, navigational sense. These 'elven' qualities, as derived
from fairie folklore, and my 'elven' ancestry via my father's nordic/irish
side, were explored through ancestral memory and deep psychic regurgitation
on a combination of morning glory, calamus, 'n hawaiian woodrose.
white
rabbit
During my process as a sorcerer, respective to the use of lsd
'n salvia, the image of the fabled white rabbit emerges as filtered
through my own spirit. This white rabbit hybrid includes energies
from the praying mantis 'n grasshopper; female in origin.
the
masochist
An illustration of self 'n parasitic elements of my psyche.
earth
spirit
A spirit summoned during a personal shamanistic ceremony, which
i later recalled from my mind's eye onto paper.
boulder
Two altoids
of LSD in a Boulder, Colorado coffee house, where, after a few hours
hiking, I refiltered the 'feel' of the mountains' spirit onto the
page; supplementing with some 'battery acid' coffee 'n espresso blend,
mellowing out finally with a nice ambient green tea 'n ginseng. One
of the
most enlightened pieces i've ever chanelled.
transdimensional
elf head plays the lute
An extremely detailed composition which further explores the psychic
concept of 'elf'.
pyschedelic
boy demon
A personification
of my intrapersonal psychic split(gemini). Interesting note, the details
of the chest actually prophecied the emergence of a physical and so
far, chronic, problem in my chest region, wherein it shifts 'n cracks
down the center, often painfully.
the
gravity of spirit corruption
This work details
the assimilation of new spirits into established culture, as well
as the psychic ego battle of established personalities already immersed.
Seen on the left is a young adult, interacting with a child, on the
right. The balloons of the child keep it immune from the gravity of
mass cultural ego scenarios; however, that innocence is also illustrated
as dwindling, noted by the balloon floating off in the distance, the
'bursting' balloon from the interaction with the stranger, and also
the built in needle of the child's own curiosity, seen as part of
the facial region.
blue
jay shaman
A portrait
created on an LSD trip; in which the picture and the surrounding room
literally began to resonate and react in sync with my own energetic
output and variation. Much of the dreaming mind brought itself to
the surface. In the end, i'd created an accurate portrait of a shaman
i know personally.
yin
yang kitty
The soul of
a male feline. Accompanied by music from 'cat power'. Drawn after
finishing the 'time traveler' oil.
vyrus
Cannabis bymixed with a good dose of masochism internalized from various
relationships i held at the time, socially and economically.
dreamgazer
...more dreamspace work, something delicate and androgynous.
further
lessons of the white rabbit
This work relates metaphysical details respective to the shamanistic
practice of weathermaking, alongside an intra-perspective on the libido
template.
lessons
of the butterflies
An illustration
of multi-modal, multi-dimensional organisms which transcend and interact
with/intersect with our layerspaces in the dreaming and so-called
real space.
virgin
in the shamans dream garden
This was created
as a shamanic mapping of consciousness for an emerging sorcerer to
draw from.
beyond
reflections of caravaggio
This was the
abstracted review of Caravaggio's "Boy With Ram". There
is an influence of 2c* in this painting, as i'd recently had my first
experiences with the chemical. It feels as if this self organizing
piece relates to cycles of life and death and extraterrestrial/polydimensional
intelligences which bulge into our awareness subliminally, but are
incapable or unwilling to pierce our typical mundane consciousness.
Psychic
Vampyre Meets 2C-I Guy
This
was a painting which reflected upon a 2000 drawing entitled "Passive
Aggressive Psychic Vampyre in Date Rape Camoflauge." In the oil
painted version, however, just finished toward the end of 2004, the
lense of reflection was deeper, more refined. Additionally i incorporated
the use of 2C-I, a phenylthylamine psychedelic, into the process of
the painting, the bulk of which spontaneously channeled itself into
the right hand side of the work. Coined "2C-I Guy", a powerful
blazing 3rd-Eye consciousness provided the seat by which various violent
and sophisticated energies moved through me onto the canvas, including,
but not limited to, native american spontaneous chant, japanese delicacy
in stroke making, and certain vague charactars, insect like, mosquito-esque...
dance
of shiva
This work is
built on top of an older unresolved painting about an encounter with
what i refer to as Mr. Death, a personfied encounter with morbidity
and mortality/immortality. So in essence this painting deals with
scars, trauma, and the regeneration of life in the wake of such traumas.
Also swimming up from the abyss are many totemic archetypes, serpent,
plant, insect, and much more. Lysergic diethylamide influenced, cultivated
in part by a cathartic spirit dance, a breaking through from darkness
and void...
communion
A painting
describing a relationship between the artist, his friend, and creation.
Layerings of consciousness and various pathologies emerge in the composition.
the
chiefs candle holders
Painting built
upon a commission regarding the legend of "the Chief's Candleholders",
a historically significant scottish story. I meditated quite a bit
on the story from local and meta contexts to abstract it, distill
it, associate from it, and so forth, and then wove the results into
a non linear narrative. Issues that arose included the age old struggle
between locus of control and our placement of it exterior or interior
to ourselves, meditation vs. transhumanist supplementation, value
of spirit and material value, ancestry and heir, anthropological gender
evaluation, and more.
transmigrations
This painting
is a gateway; a punctuation and endpoint to my body of work until
now and the movement toward newer states of evolution. The transmigratory
element of this work goes beyond art for me and serves as a synchronistic
echo of larger personal and social progressions. It has been a very
inspired and powerful piece. I only wish this digital image could
show you all the subtleties of light interplay the thing provides
as you pan the room.
reflections of a self aware cupid
The purpose
of this work was to continue to explore the hybridity between old
classical forms and sensualites/gender and mind expansive modern internal
contextualization.
transgender buddha faces mara
I created this
piece while living in Thailand and traveling through the region, including
Cambodia's Siem Reap where the Angkor Wats set. While in se Asia i
learned a great deal about Theravada tradition historically and in
modernity, and used the exposure to iconagraphy and local energies
culturally as inspiration for this work. The piece is built upon the
basic format of the Buddha's trial with Mara(a Deva)as Mara tempts
the Buddha from attaining perfection(Nirvana/Nibbana).
the approach of a great threshold
This piece
was a complex reflection of subliminal interactions which are yet
to fully manifest--in some cases locally to the observer, in other
cases in terms of grosser physical manifestations. Also issues of
the subliminal elements of a long distance relationship are illustrated.
There was a period of time during which a psychedelic experience tore
down the initial direction of the imagery and spiralled the piece
into heightened complexity.