This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
THE LONELY DOLL (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
THE AUTUMN OF MY LIFE (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
A RED RAIN (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
THE END (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
ANGELS WE REJECT ON HIGH (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
Sunday, October 13, 2024
DREAMERS & ARTISTS
I have very vivid dreams. It's not unusual for me to live a lifetime within the course of a single dream. It can often be disorienting upon waking, but I've learned to cope.
I think that this is perhaps my greatest asset as a surrealist. It gives me what i call "a clarity of vision" regarding the absurdities which I explore in my art.
I woke at 5am this morning from what I call the "Mega Tomb" dream. I've been there before. It's a massive place. A huge city closed from entry or exit by the people within. There is a whole world inside. People live, work and go about life convinced that they were chosen to represent earth in safety, while those outside are dead.
It's actually quite a nice place. They have all they need to survive and there is a timeless quality to their world.
Of course I'm always locked in with them, just another denizen.
I'm a designer. I build beautiful structures from materials at hand. I'm known for my faerie like buildings and absurd dwellings.
Life goes on within these towering walls. Love, relationships, politics all exist but with an ephemeral twist. It's all quite surreal.
The difference in tonight's dream was that the walls began to shake and the doors to the outer world were about to open once more. I suppose I'll wait to see what's out there. Because as dreams so often do, it ended right at the best part.
So what does the artist do with this dream? I suppose I could plot it out like a movie script. Or I could try to draw what I saw in my time within those walls.
But no. As I've often found with other dreams this just doesn't work. I'll lose myself trying to resurrect the dream and fill in the blanks.
Instead I'll assimilate this dream and let it fall back within my subconscious. And when I least expect it, the dream will suddenly surface within my art, lending a reality to the surrealism that Is part of my life as an artist.
Do you dream? Do you make those dreams a part of your art? Or like so many do you disregard them as something of no consequence?
I hope not. There are hidden secrets within our dreams. And if we are not here to explore them artistically, then it's a sad loss to ourselves and our fans.
The dreamer has risen, but the dream still remains
Friday, October 11, 2024
HARROWING ON SACRED GROUND (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
We are the damned, the maimed, the conquered, the slain
We are the innocent, the wronged, the lost, the maimed
Our eyes are haunted, our bodies pierced
Our deadly dance gone unrehearsed
What is the value of shattered lives
Coins placed on deadened eyes
There is no value in bodies dead
No tombs to rest our blooded heads
Only the pain of our passing life remains
Mournful cries heard in storm and wind and rain
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
THE ETERNAL DANCE OF THE SOUL (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
While your mortal body may weep
You may commit the worst crimes
And you may think you’re damned for eternity
Your soul dances like a whirling dervish
It spins like a top in eternal bliss.
Nothing you can do in this life can stop the dance
Absolutely nothing can halt the joy of an eternal being sailing through the cosmos
Nothing
THE METAMORPH (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
THE ARTISTS ASYLUM (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
I reach inside myself, and I find nothing.
These four walls they are my life and they are my world.
They shift with an imagination which I’ve lost.
They ooze color, revealing to me the secrets of a universe I’ve lost.
Einstein writes E=MC* with a crayon and the wall collapses into a thousand tiny worlds.
I reach out for answers, and I find nothing.
THIS IS HELL (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
This is Hell.
It is not pretty. It is not ugly.
It is overwhelming, to the senses, to the mind, to the body.
It is not Christian or Satanic. It does meet your stereotype.
It is pure confusion. It Is maelstrom. It is loneliness. It is everything you hate
It is nothing. It is everything. It is
TIME TO SAY GOODBYE (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
This is a series composed of art and what I call micro-verse. I attempt to augment the art through words written spontaneously to match that art. Micro-verse is meant to take you to a deeper place of meaning within the art. If the images and words offensive, just remember that not all art is meant to be cute. Some is meant to make you think and sometimes to even take offense.
In your heart I will remain
In your grief I will cry with you
In your loss I will whisper to you
In your passion I will make you swoon
In your sighs I will hold your hand
You may not see me.
You may not understand now
But I am always there