Portrait of Caroline Mahboubi Painting

Zachary Selig is a fine artist, author, filmaker and spiritual consultant, whose background in Mexican and Latin American cultures was established in his youth. He is a Magic Realist, with genres that range from Talismans to Portraits. He is an easel painter, trained in classic oil-glazing technique and gouache by his mentor Bridget Bate Tichenor. He received the highly esoteric knowledge of Talisman Art with its intricately correlated design formulae of cosmological principles at different stages in his life in Mexico and Caribbean. At 16, his first Mesoamerican anthropological studies came through author Baron Alexander von Wuthenau as his student at the University of the Americas in Mexico City. He then received training in the East Indian Hindu “Tantric Yantra” and Mayan/Toltec/Purepecha teachings as the protege of the late Magic Realist British expatriate painter Bridget Bate Tichenor. At the same time, he learned Mesoamerican Sacred Geometry from Surrealist painter Pedro Friedeberg. He then received initiations as a Solar Kundalini Master with the ‘Naacal Cosmograms” as a Spiritist with Tarascan Shamans in Guerrero, followed by 16 years as an Afro-Cuban Priest of Obatala Ayagunna with Yoruba ‘Ajitena' (Signature of the Gods) applications. He received masters and doctorate degrees in African- American Religions at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.