Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Labor of Hercules - Full Narrative - EXPOSED!

Happy Birthday!
In the beginning of our story the main character plays music. A carefree life.

Armadillo presenting reliquary
Some trouble arises and an Armadillo tasks him with a quest of sorts.

"I think that this Zen master is thinking too much. How can a butterfly dream?"
A magical leaf is ceremoniously mixed into a magical drink.

This lady offered to poison me. She's pretty cool.
Offerings are presented to the gods of night.

The female god, Ayahuasca, oft symbolized by anaconda.
The female goddess Ayahuasca answers in her typical form, that of a great snake.

Labor of Hercules
The Great Evil that is the IMF (International Monetary Fund) is like the hydra.

Hungry kitty - rooftop wraparound - corner with orb\
Fighting it's many necks proves difficult. Devouring it is our last ditch answer.

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A blooded sword is a good thing indeed.

Armadillo presenting reliquary
Our story begins to loop, like the great snake. Here reward is presented.

Happy Birthday!
Life is cyclical and we begin where we end. Birth, death, all that jazz.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Red Crested Crane

Red-crowned crane

Fairy Crane

To what shall
I liken the world?
Moonlight, reflected
In dewdrops.
Shaken from a crane's bill.

- Dogen, 1200 - 1253

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Magical Ecuador

Magical Meditation

Magical Mushroom
I paint this in 2 minutes. I'm like The Flash!

"Conversations at the Edge of Magic" : A Lecture by Terence Mckenna

Monday, January 30, 2012

AMOR

AMOR

Make the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Kind words for a Gift in Brooklyn

Gift in Brooklyn

Hello!
My name is Rachael and I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I want to write to you to let you know how special your artwork is to me. In September 2010 I arrived back to NYC from a particularly challenging trip to India. I worked in an orphanage there during the summer, and in my time after traveling via trains through India, I saw the worst in people through greed, corruption, sadness, loss, and pure destruction in both environmental and animal abuse. Needless to say, I felt the experience to my very core. It put me in a very distraught state of mind and infinite sadness seemed to take over. I felt helpless and lost. I caught an early flight home to Brooklyn and walked into a destroyed home. I had been robbed while away, and all of my personal belongings and cherished items gone. The impact on my already saddened self was immense.
I walked outside to clear my head and being 4 am, the streets were empty. All of a sudden, In the moonlight, a happy face with large eyes and the idea of "LOVE" seemed to jump out to me. It was your art. It rushed a feeling of happiness, love, friendship, connection and pure energy into me, at a time when I needed it most. I thank you for this. It was at the right time and in the right place. I took it home and it has been on every apartment I have lived in since, front and center and always making me happy when I see it.

This has been unexpectedly a long and winding tale, but thank you again and again. I had to reach out to you and let you know how your artwork has touched me. Keep creating and LOVE.

Best,
Rachael

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Salinas, Ecuador

Salinas, Ecuador
Completion time: 25 minutes (there's a video somewhere)

Raccoon-Cats at the Beach

Three Musicians

Sea Dragon

In the tropics

Friday, December 2, 2011