Contemporary visionary and sacred art
Report by Delvin Solkinson on the first leg of the Interdimensional Art Tour, one of the most important annual events for the sacred / spirit / visionary art community.
“This many splendored gathering of visionary culture celebrated the cutting edge of the new movement with an incredible array of art, music and new fashion. As people arrived they stepped through a portal into a world rich with wonder.”
Japi Honoo describes her imagery as stories of her “state of mind”. Her stories express “feeling out of time and belong to every age.” For Japi, digital techniques can assume the same function as the paint brush, enabling her to create new worlds and possibilities for the interpretation of femininity.
It is with great honor that Lila is able to present Maura Holden’s latest finished work, Divisions of Neptune, accompanied by a work of mytho-prose reflective of some of the originating feelings and meditations contained within this unique painting.
A master of 21st century sacred art, Oleg Korolev generously shares and discusses his latest work, ‘Michael’ with Lila.
The artist Dean Fleming interviewed by Daniel Mirante
Where does the artistic process begin for you ?
I get most of my inspiration from looking at art. It can be anything from architecture to ancient Mayan pottery. I’ll begin by sketching with a big brush in order to create vague shapes that I use like a [...]
My art is an attempt to bring out in drawing my visions from entheogenic experiences. Ever since my first major entheogenic journey (which are always via Tryptamines, either mushrooms or Ayahuasca), Ive felt an enormous push in a certain direction for the aesthetics of my artwork. The visions I saw were so beautiful that I almost had no choice but to try and draw them, I felt like a conduit for the stuff to come out.
Pablo Amaringo is one of the world’s greatest visionary artists, and is renowned for his highly complex, colourful and intricate paintings of his visions from drinking the Ayahuasca brew. Howard and Peter met with Pablo at the school which he founded (Usko-Ayar school of painting) in Pucullpa where he lives and paints, and interviewed Pablo about his life as a shaman and artist.
Working collaboratively can be an experience of ecstatic bliss and union of consciousness… and it can also be an exercise in patience and non-attachment. Simultaneous collaboration involves a particular mindset wherein we must surrender attachment to the final result, letting go of the egoic aspect of creation and becoming fully absorbed in the act of harmonious co:creation.
Updated Jan 2008. Interview with Maura Holden by Daniel Mirante
Combining both excellent draftsmanship with a lucid sense of colour, Maura depicts the secret vistas of the collective psyche, the sunken, honeycombed ruins of mysterious ancient civilisations, the paradisiacal and primordial bliss of our ancestors living within a shamanic dreamtime
Interview conducted by Lunaya Shekinah of Lightscience with prolific artist / writer / curator, Daniel Mirante, discussing possible futures, and the nature of the imagination.
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Ernst Fuchs – The Spirit of Mercury, 1954.The art of Fuchs forces an examination of the Western roots of spirituality, affirming revelatory spiritual power within Christianity. In the wake of Darwinism, and the world wars this has not been a popular position. And yet Fuchs himself had to work through the perplexities and obscurities, and the devestation of post-war Europe, to find the shining pearl hidden in the mire of matter.
A facinating theory of evolution which integrates the role of matrifocal socieities and the role of art into the mix. “Culture requires brains, and brains of that immense degree were never necessary in any other animal. The human act that demanded immense brain power was the act of art. This requirement is because in art there are no limits.”
Cast forth from the garden by the jealous archon, she wanders the earth, trying to find another garden.
Inspired by the ever evolving, intrinsic relationship between nature and technology, Android produces lavish works in many formats, incorporating complex and varied themes of science, nature, electronic music and planet Earth.
Stretching out like one of the Buddha’s great bejeweled parasols, the term Visionary Art encompasses a wide variety of styles, genres, periods, and degrees of abstraction. Definitions abound, but here is my hard crystal: visionary art is art that resonates with visionary experiences, those undeniably powerful eruptions of numinous and multidimensional perception that suggest other orders of reality.
All the essential elements of twentieth century’s Zeitgeist are present in an inextricable amalgam in Giger’s biomechanoid art. In his inimitable style, he masterfully merges elements of dangerous mechanical contraptions of the technological world with various parts of human anatomy.
Outside the Amazon, artists not born into or raised in indigenous or mestizo ayahuasca-using cultures, including such well-known visionary artists as Alex Grey, Robert Venosa, and Martina Hoffmann, have rendered visual experiences attributed to the ingestion of ayahuasca or DMT. For want of a better term, I will call this body of work DMT art…
From the depths of the fabled flow, comes the combined forces of a crew of visionaries aligned in the grassy hillocks of central Portugal to explore the present and future of the emerging visionary art culture.
Jay Michaelson discusses his views of the Ayahuasca experience and its relationship to Kabbalah – “…journeys of the soul to other realm and in the sense of a transformation of the self. They yield information, prophecy, revelation, theophany.”
Delvin Solkinson and Daniel Mirante
The creative imagination is vitalized and inspired by a reconnection to the Gaian fertility circuit. Our creativity is our most valuable faculty for regenerating the web of life and moving humanity beyond its current existential and ecological blind alley.
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