It Comes Through

This thing is big,
I open myself to let it through.
I peel back like a glove,
like a the skin of an orange.
I thought myself dead
in this transformation,
but I am prologue
to the things that come through me.
I am the lantern
and the light comes
and the light comes through me.
I am just the first word.
I am just the match.
I am just a doorway.
I am just a window
and the light comes through.

Weekly Mandala: Mushroom Elder Watching

Recent experiences have led me to agree with Terrence Mckenna concerning Mushroom consciousness.

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Weekly Mandala: Hope

I  usually avoid animated GIFs, but after seeing what Vincent did over in his blog, I got to thinking.  Let me know if this just annoying or if there is an entrancing element to it.  

Here is another bit of weirdness.  Look at the first line of text below the image and focus on it.  Stare for a few seconds and try to ignore everything around it.  After a bit it begins to look like you can reach your finger right over the edge into the mandala.  I love optical illusions like that.

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Weekly Mandala: Rose Fire into Tipareth

There is something very soothing and safe in this piece.  All that warm yellow light...the comfort of a lazy afternoon.  The red would usually makes me think of something more sanguine, but here I feel contained and safe.  It evokes a sense of rose petals or the reddish color of shadows turn in the presence of a candle.  The source material for this did have candles in it, but I feel there is a difference between the mere presence of a candle and the comfort that comes from it.  So many of my pieces have an element of urgency or emergency in them, but I feel no danger here.  Makes me want to take a nap.

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Weekly Mandala: Plutostorm

Here is a face for the bombshells Pluto has been dropping into my life over the past year.  Cool energy, but volatile and corrosive.  A strange combo to be sure, but from what I've experienced so far it seems to be a highly solvent influence.  It has been dissolving the old structures of my life one after another with alarming regularity.  More on Pluto in Capricorn.

From this point forward, I'm going to try to post a weekly Mandala.  They are a good way for me to decompress and rekindle my zen...and I haven't done any in quite some time.  I'll try to avoid getting too repetitive with them.  I know after awhile they can all look the same.

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Night in the Forest of the Blue Gates

This one needs a scary new age soundtrack.

I really don't know where this piece came from.  It started as something completely different and turned into this strange dark forest very suddenly.  I'm still not sure what to make of it.  Such a strange vibe.  I know that the period that this came from was very intense and uncomfortable for me.

It feels like underneath.  Some contained underworld place that is difficult to escape.  I definitely don't want to get too close to those columns, they look hungry.

As well as the scary new age soundtrack, I also hear the hum of a dying fluorescent bulb here.  I suspect that light in the Forest of the Blue Gates flickers.  As soundtracks go - perhaps Steve Roach: Dynamic Stillness.

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The Unfolding

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THE VISITORS

I drew these guys this past summer

just before everything in my life started changing dramatically.

Mysterious figures trekking over a mountainous landscape.

The image kind of came upon me while I was at work and it had a great urgency to it

so I did a quick sketch with what I had available.

This may end up as a painting.

They have large silvery bubble faces.

I think they may be Space men...

or maybe those are just weird environment suits...

or Dr. Who Monsters.

{Pen & Ink and some really crappy paper}

Update 012714:

Over at Zombie Bites, this piece was presented in Exhumed and reinvestigated with color in January of 2014.  Check out the Exhumed image here.