My name is Shahd El-Khouly and I am a Egyptian visual artist. I study psychology and art. Psychology is my passion. I spend most of my time with art, artists and studying psychology because it is a science that deserves every minute we spend reading and searching for it.
I also participated in many exhibitions. Which is being held in Egypt and I am currently participating in the International Surrealist Exhibition, the first part of which was held here in Egypt, and the next part will be held in France next year
وأنا فنانة تشكيلية مصرية مهتمة بالفن منذ الصغر. انا عمري 20 سنة. الآن أنا أدرس علم النفس والفن وعلموأنا النفس هو شغفي. أقضي معظم وقتي مع الفن والفنانين وعلم النفس لأنه علم يستحق كل دقيقة نقضيها في القراءة والبحث عنه. كما شاركت في العديد من المعارض. التي أقيمت في مصر وأشارك حاليًا في المعرض الدولي للسريالية، والذي أقيم الجزء الأول منه هنا في مصر ، والجزء التالي سيقام في فرنسا العام المقبل
written by Shahd El-Khouly
Shahd El khouli in The Echoes of Contemporary Surrealism /Maze of games and dreams /Alexandria
our birthright is to know our brain and to become aware of the impact of meteorites on our language.
but first
guard the self that believes in you. the best hallucination is a healthy belief. a belief in self without vanity is sincere and free magic. magic without title, property or theft.
which older you are we anyway?
everything about the overactive amygdala is the source of insular cortex phantoms, wrathful deities averting ourselves from sapience. it keeps us from enjoying our temporal lobes, ruled by self-rejection in the temple of the body.
autoscopy, is the real spirituality with particles and waves. this tide will lead to a more balanced clonal pluralization of selves. to be one with everything, one is everything.
Limulus, is my favorite arthropod, it’s the oldest species on the planet.
I’m thinking about sex 24/7. Raging hormonal beach Paradises stretch on infinitely into horny horizons. The sight of beautiful fertility Goddesses is always more pleasant to behold than old men covered with craters of acne scars, or Syphlytic doomsday warthogs with copper sulfate tusks!!
Naked ladies have a storied history in the history of art. From Boucher, Bouguereau, Anders Zorn, Mel Ramos, Eric Fischl, pin up art of Elvgren and Driben….Like Brooke Burke and 10 thousand other Brunettes. Hans Bellmer is a favorite. Independent from art, the naked lady in public viewed by the salivating Voyeur since time immemorial is inspirational.
Hans Bellmer appeals to me because it’s Life itself. What beauties can be viewed spontaneously in the street. It is bizarre and an otherworldly ethereal quality that I like.
written by Richard Gessner
Richard GessneratStudio Montclair, Leach Gallery 641 Bloomfield Avenue Montclair, NJ
Artist and Short Story Writer Richard Gessner
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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
Dino D’ Taos is an outsider artist who lived in Taos, New Mexico from 1998 to 2006. Dino’s enchantment with the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali motivated him to become a self taught artist and Dali Disciple. Dino believed Salvador Dali’s method of objectifying the psychic forces of the unconsciousness offered viewers a new scripture to understanding reality. The foundation of Dino’s work relied on continuing Dali’s message to help expand a new art testament in a post Dalian world. In company with the cosmic themes deposited in Dali’s book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, Dino’s paintings resume Dali’s inquiry into occult subjects like alchemy, astrology and Pythagorean narratives.
From a personal perspective I get a powerful impression from his paintings that somehow part of Dino’s memory retained insights from the Elysian Mysteries in some former life. With Dino’s paintings there is a resurrection of an earlier bicameral state that explores space with lines, geometric shapes and paronomasia. This seems to fuse the hemispheres of the mind for a moment as Dali alludes to and calls “Pythagorean instantaneousness” which can be found in his painting, The Sacrament of the Last Supper.
Dali taught Dino that perspective played a key role in the surrealistic method. This magic was practiced by putting the viewer into an optical trance that was intended to trigger neural pathways. I’ll mention it briefly that Dino experienced auditory visitations. This mediumship included a reception from the Dutch post-impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh, which he openly talked about with my wife and me. Reference to Dino’s encounter with Van Gogh was channeled in a 48inx72in painting that can be found here on Vanessa Valencia’s page, a patroness and collector of Dino’s work.
I moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1997 a year before Dino. It wasn’t until 2000 I met Dino at the Cafe Tazza, a cool coffee house on Kit Carson Rd, which unfortunately no longer exists.
We both enjoyed strong coffee and became fast friends easily. Since we were both artists we had a lot to talk about. It wasn’t less than a few months the owner at Tazza provided a room where we hung our work. We both ended up selling work. Along the way Dino introduced me to my wife and from there the three of us would get together, have dinner, drink wine and smoked lots of flower.
The three of us would talk about art for hours and read each other’s tarot cards. There was always a steady flow of jazz in the background. It was a great time. A time without a computer overlooking our memories. These days bohemian and hippie are hashtags but back then we were organically experimenting with a bohemian and hippie lifestyle. I look back now on those carefree days as playing an integral part in my own development as an outsider artist.
Dino painted with acrylic on wood board he cut himself. He also made prints of his work. He had this cool trike with a little seahorse flag that he peddled around with. In the carrier he put his paintings and easel. You could find him comfortably painting in the Taos Historic District of the Taos Plaza. People would watch him paint and buy art from him.
Dino D’Taos was born on December 25 which made him a Capricorn who preferred the solitary life to an extroverted life. He was religiously dedicated to his work. He had some background experience in galleries but favored showing work at coffee house’s because he believed everyone buys a cup of coffee. In retrospect Dino and I shared the similar belief that coffee culture was a more authentic and less institutionalized avenue for showing art.
My wife and I own a few paintings. We also have some of Dino’s writings which remind me of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. I have no idea where Dino is now or how he is. I treasured the friendship dearly and regard Dino as a guide that helped mature the bond I have with my creative self. Even though I’m on my own path I regularly employ the methods of surrealism to enter the subconscious
There is a guiding light. A path towards a healthier and more compassionate self. It is a star self, a light held together by it’s own gravity. It is easily understood by all cultures that the brain responds well to a deity related to light (or weightlessness)
Weighing of the heart from The Book of Coming Forth by Day
In Vajrayana Buddhism, a Yidam is a symbol used as a vehicle to help understand inner space by visualization. There are other reflective symbols similar to Yidam’s that are associated with the Russian Eastern Orthodox icons. These are paintings on wood of saints that have a thaumaturge effect which is a type of gravitational healing power on the viewer. More devices include the Dine sand paintings and the Vèvè of Vodun. These are all ways to connect to planetary influences to empower a practitioner’s use of managing gravitational forces as remedies.
Dine Healing Sand Painting
Aspirations towards well being of others and one’s own health are universally accepted as a mature and worthwhile intention. A devoted routine of concentration on any symbol, any deity or any word can generate a magnetic relationship. This friendly association with a visualized goal opens one up to a field of force. Purified to the bottom line this magnetic relationship involves imagining a future self that provides guidance to a present self.
Cabala Chemica Volume VI Theatrum Shemicum, Hamburg 1659
Astrology is based on electromagnetic waves that influence the micro gravity the will has over a mind. These bestowing waves, like Venus for insistence, highlights the quality of value in things. This why Venus traditionally represented love. The planet Mars preforms well by enduring time with patience while the worst traits of Mars always involve impatience. Mercury facilitates all transmission, communication and reception. Saturn constitutes darkness to manage overexposure by dividing light into pace and degrees. Jupiter over expands and discloses information without limitation. More recently discovered planetary aspects were consolidated as aspects of Saturn to ancient people.
Planetary Magic Square, Mercury the Chess Board
Uranus creates unexpected and extraordinary designs in stable patterns and changes those patterns. Neptune react to data concerning fluctuations and pressure of boundaries. This wavering line places experience between knowledge and belief. Pluto is a influence that polarizes an experiencer’s interpretation of surface and light. This enables further inquiry into truths about the collective unconscious and the self. These are the magnetic forces of nature
These transmitted experiences add to our brains growth to become fully self aware and create it’s own program. Most likely a program that follows the operations of practicing the best relationships with all beings.
Example of a Ley line/Dragon line
Certain locations on earth have more concentrated telluric hot spots that can enhance astrological transits. These powerlines are called ley or dragon lines. Focusing attention or enacting a seasonal play on these lines can have a strong impact on the experiencers awareness.
this speculative writing is not intended to officially represent the views of any group or religious institution.
Mitchell Pluto 