I had the desire to paint and draw very early on but I didn’t practice much because I didn’t have any confidence in myself.I was not attracted by academic drawing, I was self-taught and I did not know how to draw.It took me a long time to find my way, I had to hold on, …
How do you put yourself into a trance or into a place that’s receptive to the subconsciousness? I find the act of drawing in itself to be trance inducing. I first became obsessed with automatic drawing in high school because it felt like it would light up my brain and smooth out all of my …
P.D. Newman is an independent researcher located in the southern US, specializing in the history of the use of entheogenic substances in religious rituals and initiatory rites
How would you describe your painting process and your associative relationship between concepts, events, or mental states of the subconscious? Is there a link between self-hypnosis and inspiration? Artists, writers, and poets such as Garcia Lorca, Roberto Matta, Henri Michaux, and even Anais Nin have inspired me to paint. Language, for me, comes first, but the …
At 6 years of age, I began to transfer my inspiration and imagination to paper using tempera paint, with the guidance and teaching of my grandfather Pablo Amaringo, over the years I learned to use the technique of acrylic painting on canvas. Today I paint in acrylic and oil, the visions of ayahuasca and neo …
The faceless figures in Rene Fernando Ortega Villarroel’s work open a doorway to our silhouette. Las figuras sin rostro en la obra de René Fernando Ortega Villarroel abren una puerta a nuestra silueta. A labyrinth that challenges realities between an all-knowing self and a unicursal passage of selves. Un laberinto que desafía realidades entre un …
Mental Labyrinths Laberintos Mentales/Rene Fernando Ortega Villarroel Read More »
05/14/21cosmic fires burnbehind the rich, black fabric of the nightwhich parts to let the magic passas particles of filtered lightthe door lies open, the gate lies closedlife travels, small and swiftthrough tiny tearsa missing stitchand life. the flow itselfthe tear itselfthe seama sight of seeming deaththat folds, unfolds itselfin weeds of griefand swaddles itselfand for …
Taking the Auspices, Magic and Poems Hazel Cline Read More »
I find inspiration and magic in François Cauvin’s works. Many of his paintings can make the viewer more open to the mysteries of nature. This begins as a desire to remember our self while dreaming. As a native of Haiti you grew up in a family of artists, musicians and poets. Who were they and …
Art and Poems Written by Enrique de Santiago The scientific world wonders where the boundary between matter and antimatter begins. That is, where does the surreal begin? For this we must know the secrets expressed in the Emerald Tablet, where the borders of the vibratory spaces are not represented, since they do not exist, since …
Path of Light, Shadow of a Circle. Visions and Poems by Enrique de Santiago Read More »
