Reabsorbtion of the Ego

Here is the Ego being absorbed back into its source.  The Ego, such a tiny mask for the much larger force of Consciousness.  This piece for me revolves around the movement of and the power of Neptune in Pisces.  Which,by the way, Neptune just went retrograde on the 4th of June.

From the Sketchbook Archives: Melting Ego

This sketch was done during a period where my sense of self was under attack from a variety of sources.  It was very difficult to hold my mental cohesion and keep my life afloat.  The space I was living in at the time was very small and I was working at a very stressful retain job.  I couldn't hold it all in.

Entering the Vortex: One week until the Festival of Orgone!

This piece is called the Orgone Vortex.  A fitting title reflecting the wake of the last weeks of June and the approach the Festival of Orgone.  Technically this should be a weekly mandala, but I ended up with several extra Mandalas while I was working on the Orgone pieces, so here we are.

Weekly Mandala: Dancing Sun in The Garden

I brush the cobwebs from my brain
and wake again to the shedding of my skin.
I am washed, I am born
in the undeniable presence of the Sun.

In the Fields Beyond: The High Priestess

Between two great columns I saw her,
and with only her eyes
she asked me the question.

From the Sketchbook Archives: Sharpie Doodle

This one falls in along pieces like Color Serpent Versus Fireworks and Nature of a Feeling but it never really went any further than this.  Just a  quick intense Sharpie doodle.

{Sharpie}

Weekly Mandala: Ritual of the Eight Columns

Within the Temple of the Soul, structure begins.

Recommended Listening:
Lisa Gerrard
The Rite
from The Mirror Pool


{Digital Images manipulated in Photoshop}

The Empress

Through even the tiniest drop of water she is revealed.

From the Sketchbook Archives: Dream Sigils

I had a very intense dream involving these two pieces of what I am calling dream sigils.

The first image was as though I were looking down on a black tetrahedron.  It was floating in the air with one of its points facing me.  The background beyond it was a stormy sky filled with black boiling clouds.  Between me and the tetrahedron were three swirling balls of light that had small tails like tadpoles or the white have a yin yang symbol.  They were spinning so quickly they looked like electricity.  The whole image had the quality of a strobe light or a broken fluorescent light: a slight, but visible oscillation.  The balls of energy seemed to be anchored to a nearly invisible wire that was in the shape of trefoil knot.  Which literally JUST hit me that that is representative of the Valknut - that makes the second image a little clearer in meaning.

Weekly Mandala: Pink and Gold

This is the feeling I strive towards, always.

Recommended Listening:
Cocteau Twins
Circling Girl
from Violaine

{Digital Images manipulated in Photoshop}

The Whole of My Heurt

The Heart is a wound that never stops bleeding,
but it is this very wound that keeps us alive.

Festival of Orgone 2012: June 20th-July 4th

Please join me at Trail of Breadcrumbs, beginning on the Northern Hemisphere's Summer Solstice, for the two week event I am calling the Festival of Orgone!  Everyday on and between the Summer Solstice and U.S. Independence Day this year I will be posting a new Orgone inspired piece of artwork.  With each piece I will be posting information about Orgone and other universal energies.  Below are a few of my previous pieces based on Orgone energy.

From the Sketchbook Archives: Madame O in Purple

Despite the fact that I am no longer actively creating anything involving her, Madame O will occasionally pop up when I am sketching.  Here she is now in a lovely purple ink wash.

{Ink Wash}