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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Sunday, October 20, 2024
THE ZEN OF ANGELIC BEINGS (Art & Micro-Verse Merged)
GODS OF A PARALLEL 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.
TAKE MY HAND (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.
EYE SEE YOU (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.
My eye is on you
Eye see you when you are strong
Eye see you when you are so tired you cannot stand
Eye see you in the day and in the night
Eye see you when your mind is so fractured that you may never find the real you
Eye see your heart and your soul
Eye see you for who you really are
My eye is on you
TAKING FLIGHT (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 body is merely a vessel for the soul
No matter what you do to it, the spirit soars
No amount of pain, blood or hell
Your brain is part of that vessel
Ignore what it tells you is happening
Its all illusion
Damage vessels cannot harm the spirit
Cannot harm the real you
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
THE LONELY DOLL (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 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