What is art? Why do I paint? The eternal question that does not mean anything and at the same time everything. What is life?
One day an old man told me, “No, I don’t like abstract art, because I don’t understand it.” Ah! I said, and thought about it for months.And one day I said to myself, how wonderful, not to understand it!
When I look at the sun, I call it the sun, but do I see through it? Do I understand it? I can even define it in many words. The truth is that I don’t I know and I don’t understand. The more we name them, the more we get used to those names.
Art reminds us that behind the words that name things there is a reality that we do not understand that revives this mystery, which is so necessary.
Animism is our oldest beliefpattern. It is the solar star with a system of selves. It is the entrance into dreamtime. The animistic brain believes that everything is an agent of mystery and energy.
Miguel Angel Huerta Zuñiga is a Chilean artist based in Til_Til, Chile. He has exhibited in Chile and abroad His work is in private and public collections in Chile and Europe. He has illustrated poetry books, has been published in surrealist books and magazines
Aboriginalancestors from our past developed a diagrammatic x-ray vision that not only revealed anatomical features but also recorded the internal pressure, a psychic meteorology within the body.
Rene Fernando Ortega Villarroel is a visual artist from Chile who practices the ancient tradition of X-ray vision in his painting. Rene has exhibited work in Chile and Argentina. He is involved in many cultural art programs that have related to hospitals, children and teaching art professionally.
GRITO DELOS LIENZOS
Mi figura se forja yen verdaderas maquinas radiográficas antropológicas y psíquicas de la existencia humana actual caracterizada por la soledad y la incomunicación más radical y enfermiza conocida por el hombre donde circunda este mundo imaginario de la naturaleza del ser humano son uno. En el color la forma se expresan en un grito de desolación y destrucción las cuales se mutan a través de un mundo poético visual.
Tarot images have inspired Andre Breton, Roberto Matta, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and many others . The archetypical images of the tarot serve as a map key. These key images help the viewer to interpret the language of their subconsciousness.
Diana Calabaza Cósmica is a Spanish artist who is interested in dream worlds and the mysteries of nature. Diana has never considered herself an artist but only an interpreter of her own eyes.
While being an Art Historian Diana’s artistic training is intuitive and self taught. She prefers not to rely on any institutional sequence. Her themes sway between the innocent and naïve. As well as gliding over the dark and silent. She has worked for several Spanish publishers such as Aurora Dorada and La Felguera. Diana Calabaza Cósmica has had solo and group exhibitions in Spain, Mexico and the United States. She is currently preparing a complete tarot…
Doren Robbins is a poet, essayist, and mixed media artist. His writings have appeared in Kayak, Sulfur, Third Rail, andmany other journals. Summer 2021 Spuyten Duyvil Press published Sympathetic Manifesto, Selected Poems, 1975-2015.
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My work is connected to the originating DADA and Surrealist traditionsof fusing the dream into works of fine art,collage, photomontage, and mixed-media works, many of which are discussed in artist-and-subject-specific exhibits and catalogues of exhibitions, Herta Wescher’s book Collage, Robert Motherwell’s The DADA Painters and Poets, and Marjorie Perloff’s The Futurist Moment.
Feminine with shadows
In part, to me the fantasy is in the euphoria of arrangement and the directing emotion. Something must be present in the images, something like what Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca referred to as Duende, an incident of imagination, a type of imponderable intensity.
Simultaneous Visitors
Over the last fifteen years collages and mixed-media works…
In Milo Rigaud’s Secrets of Voodoo he describes the les lois ‘the laws’ as intermediaries between human beings and the cosmic source. These unseen constitutional agents are waves known as Loas who superintend the pattern of the world. During ritual and geometric drumming initiates tune into a loa and a transmission ‘mounts’ a recipient, known as ‘cheval’ which means horse. From the outside the person is possessed or entranced-from the word entrance. Similar to an artist being a cheval ridden by inspiration (in spirit).The psychic transit arrives, stays and expires while vertical lines are cross bounded by horizontal lines producing a square (or diamond) that channels (even generates) cosmic awareness into a personal experience.
The psychic map contained within the veve’s is a cross road of any place, it is also at the same time a quantum world of everywhere. I do not practice Voodoo or any religion in a traditional process. What I notice about active practitioners in Voodoo is trance states and a deep relationship with inspiration.
Excessive emphasis on power points and direction makes space magical and useful. Realistically on a mundane level, lines retain power in structure, a sentence of words or even numbers counting paced events on a clock. The Veves in voodoo reflect such effects as points and lines being the living representation of a spirit who is a geometric being. This is not unlike other cosmograms using geometry, including the Sri Yantra, Kolams and Navajo sand painting to mention a few.
Health, abundance, growth and love are all recognized universally as good and beneficial directions for the best outcomes. Positive end results, efficiency, a management of temporal lobe quakes and a thriving neural network are in accordance to the patterns of Loas. It cannot be argued maintaining this pattern is essential to balance and living well. Magic’s best purpose is healing and restoring the incomplete.
Points and lines (or particles and waves) will appear serpentine. The serpent is an expression of a time tense, a movement of a day and night in space. Only a focusing meditating point can open an omnivoyant eye in the center square (or center diamond). Veve’s along with the crafted tiles made by Islamic artisans have fixed these particles and waves in a suspended state for us to study the hidden qualities of an interior state. In my limited personal experience spirits look more like unfolding flowers without interruption, then they look like replicas of people.
I intentionally borrow from authentic beliefs. I mimetically blend ideas together. My intention is not to marginalize the value of traditional Voodoo
The search for a mind treasure in the past relied on the astrological map of archetypes. This cross was emblemized into the tetramorph, a visual arrangement of four things.
In this artistic dramatization Aquarius is an agent of sapience directing itself as it’s own magnetic force. Taurus, Leo, Scorpio create a ladder of finer and finer interior triangles.
Taurus representing stability while channeling creativity between parallel lines beyond personality.
Leo directs it’s energy into a series of actions to deliver a flower or design to the world.
Scorpio are the lines drawn by the tool and is the evolving, crawling, flying spine.
These substances-earth, fire and water, create a closed triangle of electric currents, a ladder or chain of triangles.
The Aquarian mind refines all turbulent magnetic forces within one’s self Having been a floating needle lost in a circle, the tetramorph becomes a conscious map. Aquarius aims to manage gravity and balance the triangles like an egg standing on a level surface.
The ladder of triangles are steps to further our own development towards inner realization. The ladder becomes a hyper reflective yantra, a sort of inward escalator. With every step, the chain of being changes on all levels. Novelty and invention grow out of either end. The ladder is a link like a potter spinning a pot on a wheel that aligns with the Earth’s magnetic field in a beautiful way. A process where the potter manifests a copy of a form broadcasted from a heavenly pattern
every once in a while I enjoy experimenting with different concepts and design. here’s an avant garde chain mail style, copper enamel pendent. I like the way M’Chigeeng First Nation artist, Duncan Neganigwane Pheasant describes a special frame of mind as a Hall of Creation. everybody walks through two beams of structure and flexibility. these are qualities in every person to find and to build an interior temple or House of Invention within themselves. The ceiling is the sky while the floor board is a cross current of tiles, each representing a space on a calendar. in the center is a mercurial self with multiple layers of tissue that always change. a surface identity is contained inside a beaker but also a guiding star that links to genius, a birds eye view. universally an attentive path leads to the best, the good. this quality of being honest shares a sense of well being with others. these are the thoughts behind the design and intention of this pendent.
The Arcanauts is a spiritually oriented, psychedelic Jazz and Funk band. The band was founded by composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist David Andrew Moore. Moore founded the band with intentions of creating the kinds of music he liked as a vehicle to express the spiritual path he is walking.
The Arcanauts are: Joe Albano — woodwinds Greg Toro — basses Tom Dowd — guitars Evan Waaramaa — Keyboards David Andrew Moore — drums, percussion and additional keyboards
I was very excited to be a visual part of the Arcanauts experience. You can catch a great interview with David at DigBoston here
The Ancient Egyptian Ka is an expression of vital essence, a force rising from a place that can not be explained. I haven’t found any strict definition of Ka but it is similar to the word soul. Many sources explain that the hieroglyph that display two arms are symbolic of molding pottery on a potters wheel.
The Ka
My first impression of Ka is energy. Another translation, based partly on the educated guesses of Julian Jaynes in his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind mentions qualities of conscious related to autoscopy. This idea of Ka as a double isn’t significantly supported when cross examined but there are some credible details to consider temporarily.
The autoscopic narrative suggests reflection is a kind of illusionary duplication, a way of putting one’s self into an object For example the Tutankhamun sarcophagus is a vivid copy of the pharaoh’s Ka or soul. To me it seems valid to consider Ka a universal signature that represents a forms presence fully. That sense of residence and memory survives the limits of the original. In this case and many others, the forgery is a decoy that influences our subconscious more powerfully than the original source.
Norval Morrisseau from Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist.National Gallery of Canada; First Edition (January 1, 2006)
Ojibway artist, Norval Morrisseau talked about The House of Invention. He never explained what the House was dogmatically. The meaning I found in what Morrisseau was talking about was the House was a flash of instantaneous possibilities.
Rarely we receive a glimpse of light from The House of Invention unless it’s in our dreams. My personal experience was an astral dream where my future self (Visual Spatial perspective) was touring the House of Invention. All the art was holographic and animated in a sequence of a fluid loops. It was comparable to the graphics interchange format but without any tics, fully three dimensional while suspended in space.
Plato also mentions a House of Invention he called hyperuranion, a place were all the forms live.
Jupiter in Vedic astrology is Guru, otherwise known as an auspicious teacher of light or in old fashion terms, simply- lord of light. This the embodiment of the silhouette ventriloquized by light in the painting. How we talk to ourselves influences our smallest self at an atomic level. The effects of Jupiter widens, extends and liberates space between lines. The planet’s influence causes us to to see things clearly without mistake. Jupiter is benevolent, helpful and fatherly. It has everything and doesn’t need anything. With it’s massive weight it moves obstacles effortlessly. Jupiter rules the 9th house of theurgy, learning, spirituality and awareness of reality.
Mitchell Pluto 