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Standing by blythly / unconscious of her own beauty
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This is another piece in my series of monsters who dwell in an infernal landscape referred to as Hell, the one place that no one want to go to, but everyone wants to explore. It is a place of pure legend and yet it holds power over the mind of humanity unlike any other locale. Even with no shred of evidence a majority of us firmly believe in its existence. Perhaps it is the notion of is dark eternity of punishment with demons cloaked in robes of time and ancient cultures that spark the imagination. Whatever the allure, the vividness of this place has not diminished over the millennia. It is fire, it is torment, and it is demons. It is Hell, the ultimate journey of the imagination; a place of epic danger that no one has chronicled with an objective eye. I find this a fascinating subject since the whole of human existence has been colored by the duality that between good and evil and perceptions of the underworld are probably older than recorded history and as current as multimedia in fiction, television and the epics in role-playing video games. It is a place that resides in the subterranean realms of the unconscious, both personal and collective. I am fascinated with the realm of otherworldliness creating imaginative alien worlds and stories about intergalactic adventures. The great science fiction writers captured our imagination with such classics as H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds to contemporary movies about alien invasions. Whether aliens do exist is another subject that intrigues me and I was very interested in reading the narrative off Midnightdreamer, an artist on redbubble who asked us to consider some provocative questions. I recommended the book by Jim Marrs, The Alien Agenda to address many unanswered questions about extraterrestrial activity. The issue of good and evil, to me, transcends the boundaries of religion. They are the core issues of ethics, what it is to be human and the nature of human evil. Scott Peck who wrote the popular, Road Less Traveled also wrote a book of more depth, People of the Lie that explores the nature of human evil, something relevant in the destructive actions towards our planet and our own species. Once we limit ourselves as artists to issues of comparative religion, we are entering another debate that gets sticky and does not focus on what interests me on a broader scale that is my artistic and creative vision of the underworld. Hell is atmosphere to me as much as it is a place. Hell is both very old and just born emphasizing the timelessness of Evil. Demons come in many forms and my artwork is my photography is my vision of these forms infinitely varied. These visions prompted me to write a narrative accompanying this piece as the counterpart of the blue demon inferno. The blue demon has an icy exterior that when provoked reveals his volcanic red fury bent on destruction. These images may be disturbing to some, but having access to our dark side or shadow in Jung’s terminology is what we need to tame the evil that lives within us and is projected externally. Scott Peck describes the damage done by people as the embodiment of human evil. I learned early on in my training to form a working alliance with the monster. One very young boy banged his head so hard on walls and hard surfaces trying to destroy the evil he felt lurked inside and made him act in destructive ways. He told me he had no control over them and when I asked him to draw them one by one, I realized the challenge of forming an alliance to tame the monsters that held him captive. I told him that we could not take them all on at once since they were so overwhelming, but we would work with each one until he had control over them. If we killed them, we had no power since they could return with more revenge. Using metaphoric communication with children is the language we need to speak to reach the unconscious so we can illuminate the darkness to facilitate awareness and change. It took several years and with the help of our evil companion, Sinister Seymour we prevailed in the end. I do not believe in Hell in the traditional sense, but I do believe we are living through our very own Hell. How is it possible for a world that gave us Da Vinci, Shakespeare and Bach to also give us Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin? In the new millennium we face a future world fraught with nuclear and biological terrorism that could jeopardize our very existence as a race. That concept is almost too large to comprehend and so we satisfy our appetites with the darkness closer to home. The evening news is composed of war, tragedy and murder. What is it that lies beneath that enables humans to commit blatant acts of cruelty and selfishness? Are too many people living anaesthetized against the imminent dangers that Al Gore dramatically reveals in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth? I wrote a piece in the writing section since I believe it important to convey the tragic consequences of global warming and the destruction to our ecosystem as portrayed in Gore’s alarming documentary. We seem to live in a world of dwindling ethics and expanding dangers. And those hells that we create in art and fiction cannot begin to compete with the hells that we as a race have inflicted upon ourselves. Hell exists and sadly, we need not look to far to see it. The demons lie within. /
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“Who can estimate the elevating and refining influences and moral value / of flowers with all their graceful forms, bewitching shades and combinations of colors and exquisitely varied perfumes? These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by those who do not appreciate them consciously and thus with better and still better fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables and flowers, will the earth be transformed, man’s thought refined, and turned from the base destructive forces into nobler production. One which will lift him to high planes of action where man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruit and fairer flowers from the bounty of this earth.” / - Father George Schoener (1864 -1941), / The Importance and Fundamental Principles of Plant Breeding
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This drawing embodies most of what interested me and drove my art in the last 90’s early 2000’s – working in charcoal and earth colours like the cave painters of Lascaux; expressing the unconscious images that arose and intuitively developing them. In many of my drawing of that time I scratched and gouged the paper, rubbing out, painting over, so that the result was a distressed surface. Nightbirds also reflects that I’m often insomniac, kept awake by the ‘night terrors’ .... drawing them is a way of co-opting them, making them into a strength instead of draining away your power. Charcoal pastel and conte on paper.
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Produced from photos taken at the Queenscliff Music Festival from 2005 to 2007. Original photo here. Mosaic made with Andrea Mosaic
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The Sea is the primeval source of life…formless, limitless, inexhaustible and full of possibility, as is the SEAHORSE. The only species of sealife or animal that the male becomes the maternal vehicle for life… This is for my dear brother Christopher to remind him of the balance in transformation and rebirth and the infinite wisdom which resides within his being and unconscious to nurture both the male/female aspects of self with love. A pencil sketch edited and played with Wacom graphic pen and Photoshop7.
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The special healing powers of Anubis cast him as the rescuer, working with unconscious or anaesthetised people and leading the blind. He protects all who cannot see, whether through physical impairment, innocence or lack of worldly knowledge. In this way he provides safety and guidance for travellers and brings healing to those who are suffering. Such griefs with such men well agree, / But wherefore, wherefore fall on me? / To be beloved is all I need, / And whom I love, I love indeed. Words by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Music – Egypt Work in wax, metallic acrylics, pigment, gold and silver leaf and graphite (Number II in the series) -October 2008
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© C J Lewis. Mixed media of photography and digitally created art work using PhotoPlus6 for painting, blending, air-brushing, layering, colouring and sizing. BEST VIEWED LARGE The red light depicts stopping the evil actions if you want a better life. Edwin Starr / OR / Smile Empty Soul / OR / Chris Rock / MCN:C5278-CD4BC-B8EED The Absence Of Light (Unconsciously Being) depicts: A personality that loses touch with its soul, that loses the source of its Light, is a personality that has become capable of what we call evil, as represented by the blackness. What we call evil is the absence of light – of love, in all cases. When we speak poetically of Light we associate it with purity, insight, and Divine inspiration, however this type of Light is not merely poetical. It is real. A soul can find it difficult to walk the way of Light through the course of an incarnation. It can find that learning to live In Light is a difficult sojourn. Through the choices that it makes while it is incarnate upon the Earth – the choice of anger instead of forgiveness, for example, or condemnation instead of understanding – a soul accumulates negative karma. As it leaves its body, it remains enveloped with the quality of Light that it acquired through the choices that it made while it was upon the Earth. When that soul has to create another personality, it will have to create a personality that is drawn from this well. Therefore, it will create a personality of more limitations. A personality with limitations of consciousness will find what we call evil more attractive than will one with a more expanded awareness. The temptation to walk that way will be strong for such a personality. All souls are tempted, but an individual with limitations of consciousness will find it more attractive to walk into the magnetic field of fear because it would not recognize fear for what it is. It would accept it as something else, as something that is normal to Life. How we understand evil, therefore, is very significant. Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from or to outlaw. Understanding evil as the absence of Light automatically requires that we reach for this thing called Light. ……………………………………………………………………… What is the appropriate response to evil? The remedy for an absence is a presence. Evil is an absence and, therefore, it cannot be healed with an absence. By hating evil, or one who is engaged in evil, you contribute to the absence of Light, and not to its presence. Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it. The absence of Light causes the personality to suffer. There is pain. When you hate, you bring the same suffering upon yourself. Hatred of evil affects the one who hates. It makes him or her a hateful person, a person who also has absented himself or herself from the Light. The above is an excerpt from The Seat Of The Soul by Gary Zukav
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Title: The Diving Board to Oblivion / Camera: Nikon D80 / Capture Date: 11/12/2008 / Dimensions: 3793×2539 / Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/5.0 / Focal Length: 18mm / ISO: 100 / Filter: None / Flash: None / Tripod: None / Uploaded Date: 11/13/2008 / Comments: This was such a great wall of color to shoot! © 2008 Charles Dobbs Photography. All photographs and artworks in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Charles Dobbs. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved.
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I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. / – John Lennon The Untapped Source Store – Portfolio/Blog – deviantART Shop / “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
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This mandala is representative of the medicine of BEAR, which for Native American peoples, is considered (along with the wolf) as one of the last true symbols of the primal, natural world, and many ecologists believe that how humans respond and protect their lands and their future will be the most honest depiction of how serious humanity is about preservation of our environment and the natural resources within it. Also, the bear is considered kin to himans, because, like birds, it can stand and walk upon two legs. / Bear teaches us to go within and awaken the potentials inherent and bring them to the world and apply them. Introspection that makes accomplishing goals and dreams that we carry come to fruition. Becoming like BEAR and entering the safety of the womb-cave, we must attune ourselves to the energies of the Eternal Mother (Earth), and receive nourishment from the Great Void (unconscious/universe), where all solutions and answers live in harmony with the questions that fill our realities. / Each and every being has the capacity to quiet the mind, enter the silence and KNOW. / Bear resides in the West of the medicine wheel, symbolic of our intuitive/feminine side or right brain and to hibernate, bear travels within the four lobes where the pineal gland resides (lying just under the pituitary gland, behind the eyes, highly responsive to light waves)also resonating our Crown Chakra, the control center for the effective functioning of our physical, emotional and mental selves. / This also links us to our faith, attitudes, beliefs, values, conscious, courage and humanitarianism. This level and power abandons intellect and EGO to the power of passionate experience and “knowing”. / Bear medicine is ultimately knowing yourself ~ your body, mind and spirit ~ using your strengths to overcome your weaknesses, whilst knowing also that both are necessary in our evolution. Drawing photographed and edited, colored with wacom pen in photoshop 7 with redfield plug-in fractilius filter and coloring adjustments to finalize.
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” The past, the present and the future are happening all around us” Carl Jung
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” The past, the present and the future are happening all around us” – Carl Jung Featured In Lifeline 18 favourites & 454 views as of 7/12/2009
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digital composite from original photographs
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animus is the male archetype
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It has been said that the Law of Attraction says people’s thoughts; both conscious and unconscious dictate the reality of their lives, whether or not they’re aware of it. Essentially “if you really want something and truly believe it’s possible, you’ll get it”, but putting a lot of attention and thought onto something you don’t want means you’ll probably get that too…..... Dedicated to John Anthony Sebastian – With love July 10th 2009
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I have not stopped thinking about the works of / LisaG and her newest piece called Sad Tree it got my mind and heart juiced up! SAD TREE _Beside a waterhole / a sad tree was planted seasonally / it leaned forward in a spirited attempt / to soulfully drench an act of love it did it all / without shame smoke often filled the air / the sad tree / was the last of its breed it had seen a fair amount / it had danced the last dance all that was left was to / take care of its bounty no more travel / c’est la vie a railway line sang blue / as the willow / spoke to flesh and blood flesh ran / to the rose bush without bud / asking for no reason why must I hang my head? It was the truth a bird floating from the heavens / hid / behind / the mercy of the burning / sad tree twisted ivy / seeded / in the minds / of blank onlookers the sad tree / discovered redemption / in the brushing of a cross in the hope / of / never truly knowing in the rooted earth / of / every lasting life in the ache / of birth turn your head / give away your perfect suit pick up your roots / be gone understand / black as coal / light as the few_ By Lisa G. 2009 ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈
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thoughts take shape
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Magic dreams surface from the unconscious mind, / bringing mystery and wonder, and a strange sense of time… / The color is bright and the feeling intense…. / spread a message of love, don’t sit on the fence…...
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...Jung explains the phenomenon of a collective unconscious by saying that our mind, just as our body, has its history. In that sense our mind has been built up in the course of millions of years and represents the history of mankind. This is why archaic images are embedded in our collective unconscious. Cayce talks about the Akashic records where all Souls record their experiences on the earth-plane. If individual Souls in this vision have a history, these records hold mankind’s history. The beauty of Jung’s view is that these “records” are more or less available to man in the form of archetypes; in the collective unconscious. “The deepest layer we can reach in our exploration of the unconscious mind is the layer where man is no longer a distinct individual”, says Jung. There our mind widens out and merges into the mind of mankind – not the conscious mind, but the unconscious mind of mankind, where we are all the same. On this collective level we are no longer separate individuals, we are one…..... Words by Carl Gustav Jung Painting inspired by Jung, using acrylics, pigments, graphite September, 6th 2009
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