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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36 W x 36 H x 1 D in
Ships in a Crate
This is one of the first experiential action paintings to music that I accomplished without any knowledge of what synesthesia was. Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Many people throughout history have experienced synesthesia developing out of a traumatic injury or had it from birth: Duke Ellington, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Liszt, Vincent Van Gogh, Richard Feynman. These people are eight times more likely to work in a creative field. I recognize that I have it since I fell down the stairs, but it also seems like I’ve always had it, now that I can see it more clearly. I see what I hear and I hear what I see when I'm painting or composing, but the connective tissue is always EMOTION. It doesn't happen unless I'm emotionally, viscerally connected to the work. I have to be moved. I don’t think it’s special in any way; I think we all have it when we are open. The red of this seeming "dragon" is the blood of its sacrifice to the great goddesses of music, "The Mousai." The only way of metamorphosis is by death and rebirth; movement after movement, like music. The dragon’s figure curves itself into the shape of a Treble Clef when it realizes the inevitability of its demise. Yet movement after movement, the music lives on. So do we. If you are moved by the magic of your own music, you are a true musician and this painting is yours. Activation: The Muse, Creativity, Majesty, Music
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36 W x 36 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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If you fell down a flight of stairs and really got hurt, physically, something else (non-physical) might also happen. You might see a great White Light. You might hear what they call a “hypnagogic” sound. Imagine the rumbling of an earthquake. Imagine the cacophony of a symphony tuning up. Imagine a million different voices speaking at once. Now combine those sounds. Okay, you’re close. Weave them all together by increasing the sound of your own internal frequency, your tinnitus, that high-pitched ringing that’s always there and you never noticed it before, but now the volume is really turned up. All together, now, that’s it. Physically, you’d be different too, truth be told. You might even feel the kind of white hot pain that really cracks you open. You might find yourself feeling lighter but also extra sensitive to electricity, Wifi, even other people. Mentally, you might even dislodge from the body, disassociate from your “normal” state of mind. Something strange might happen to you, even if you’d never believed in this kind of stuff before, and suddenly you OPEN yourself to another aspect of consciousness. Yes, that might happen too. You might find yourself waking the next morning (and the morning after that, and the morning after that…) with “downloads” of strange and fantastical information: concepts about different levels of consciousness, the meaning of existence, quantum physics and harmonics, geometric patterns, the natural world, the words of mystics you’d never read before, immaterial phenomena, death, and the cosmos. You might find yourself suddenly endlessly curious, if you weren’t already so. Here’s the weird part: people might start looking at you differently in the grocery store. Like they really need to tell you something about their mother, something they’ve really got to get off their chest. They might feel better just by sitting near you. It could happen. It could happen to you, too.
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