METAPHYSICAL SURREALISM - ARTIST’S MEDIATION

"Metaphysical Surrealism is the practice of meditation and dreaming, of mysticism and higher consciousness, of the energy pulsating through our electric universe. These paintings I'm creating are richly drenched in the sacred and divine, using tools of logic, love and function. My aim is to diversify and expand the parameters of conversation into a visual language making the invisible visible; encrypting multi-layered elements of non-linear content based in myth, science, philosophy, ancient occult symbolism & sacred geometry, to challenge and disrupt the apathy of the unconscious mind. In doing so I’m discovering a relationship with the very physical real world created by consciousness and the underlying unseen energies, or gnosis, that is locked in our DNA like a fractal continuum of subtle constant change.”

I am moved by the Naturalists' suggestions for expressing their desire for utopia, a world influenced by the beauty of art in harmony with nature and the inner world of, opening up and recognizing the continual cosmic flow of information - William Blake, Helena Blavatsky, Hieronymus Bosch, Benjamin Franklin, Alphonse Mucha, HG Wells, Mary Shelley, Maxfield Parrish, Nikola Tesla, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Maxwell, Michael Faraday, Henry David Thoreau, Immanuel Kant, Buddhist, Transcendental Meditation & ESP practitioners, Yogis, Reishis & Gurus, all of whom enter into the mystic to find their truth, casting spells into their work to do their magic on humanity. 

I am particularly partial to the work of Emanuel Swedenborg, knowledge passed down to me by my great grandfather, Frank Very, who was an expert on his life teachings. As a result, my process is one part infused with this magic, mediation, and manifestation of my lineage, and two parts scientific, working with actual practitioners, constantly researching, documenting, & (re)articulating everything learned. 

I’m a completely self-taught artist and I think perhaps that is what lends itself to the act of Metaphysical Surrealism being autodidactic in a way, a very conscious, present & self-reflective process to inform new relationships on this planet with each other and to nature, reality, human thought, and above all beauty. 

The intention in art is not meant for entertainment, to sedate you and take you away from your life. Its purpose is to make you think, it should serve as an active role in the artist and viewer’s experience exposing ideas that society has trained us to reject or been so ridiculed even censored that they’re labeled taboo. Art ought to divert us away from retroistic thinking thereby allowing space for a more objective, open-minded curiosity to form and interpret reality through, a visionary articulation of things that sometimes can only be felt ."Humanity is our uniting religion, breath our uniting prayer, and consciousness our uniting god." He who controls the past controls the future. Those who see no future are obedient in the moment and those who do not understand the past do not understand who they are. Simple wisdoms passed down through the ages by the wise old sages. The fact is your connection to the universe is so incredibly powerful the only way to prevent you from experiencing it is to keep you in a state of paranoia and fear. Indeed, one of the greatest conspiracies of the history of humanity is the one keeping you from waking up to who you truly are." ~ MEAR ONE