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A visual hallucination in a basic sense is just a vision without the ordinary stimuli. Every once in a while I get in kind of a relaxed state of mind and just let my pencil flow. I’m not really sure what I’m drawing it’s just this visual trip that I take. This sketch is what came out late last year on one such occurrence.
Inside-out, unraveling, dripping and spiraling the house of card of the rational mind gives way to a journey in my mind’s eye toward something extraordinary. I know and record a truth in an abyss of a fleeting perception and wonder what another’s mind will see. I hope you’ll let me know.
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What were you doing in 2003? I have been doing a lot of character design, layouts and generally art which is designed to entertain lately and not nearly enough art for art’s sake. I am not going to sit here and judge which form of art is superior to the other, but I do know how satisfying it is to just let the creative process flow.
Back in 2003, I was graduating high school and that free flowing art is what I lived for. I had a sketchbook and pen at my hip at all times ready to see where the day’s artistic musings would lead. Yesterday, I showed off a sketch which showed a man in a Simian Suit rekindling a fire. I wanted it to signal that there was a fire within me that was still burning which needed some tending and also clarify the purpose of what might have appeared to be a random appearance of a simian style inked eagle.
Anyway, I have decided to continue down this path and get some distance on the march of Fear and Loathing Lizard Character Designs by ending the week with something a little different: something a little less constrained.
I’ll let your eyes and your mind interpret however you will today’s sketch having given it just a little bit of context based on my thought process recently. I like this pen and ink drawing on its side as I have presented it, but you might want to drag it on your desktop and flip it around from all sorts of angles. There is something which can be seen pretty much every which way.
No matter what you are doing in life there is some creative process which seeks expression and flow. I hope that you might flashback to your own moment in life when your desire to create just poured out into something. So go make it happen and decide affirmatively to follow and realize your passions in life. I know I am trying.
“The day is done, and the darkness, Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward, From an eagle in his flight” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The eagle is inked, it’s time to fly…
Don’t ask me what a women thinks. I just draw what I see.
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Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even raise a little sand
Cause I’m a voodoo child
Lord knows I’m a voodoo child baby
~ Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child
Drawing uses lines to represent concrete things. It is by it’s very nature an abstraction of reality: genuine voodoo magic if you ask me. It’s not too different from the voodoo doll which is created to represent a person. Think of the apparent power that is conveyed to this representative form. By some deep magic, It has the power to curse and to inflict harm.
I have heard it said that one must believe in voodoo for it to have power over you. Well, if that is the case then it is human beings who are imparting significance to these otherwise inanimate objects.
My drawing today is similarly abstract. It has forms. Many if you stare at it long enough. I have discovered several new ones while writing this post, but the point is that it is up to you, should you so choose, to see past the abstraction and see the forms which by some feat of true voodoo magic may be brought to life for you. That my friends is the true power of voodoo.
“This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin’, little tenderizin’, an’ down you go.” ~ Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws(1975)
Alright enough of that. Really, I just wanted to convey the bad boy allure of this apex predator with the imprint of my Simian Style rather than reinforce the stereotypical idea of the malicious man-eating shark. This stereotype has been terribly harmful to sharks which by some estimates are dwindling in number at a rate of 100 MILLION per year killed as a result of human fishing and also deliberate shark fining.
Shark fining, for those of you who don’t know, often involves catching a shark, removing it’s fins and disposing of it’s carcass overboard to slowly drown. The fins are used to prepare the Asian delicacy of shark fin soup and sadly that’s where the money is. Sharks are a majestic creature and they deserve our respect and awe not to be inhumanely savaged, mutilated, and killed for their fins.
Some of you may remember that a while back I posted a logo I designed for a fantastic organization called Iemanya Oceanica which seeks to preserve sharks and rays. They have numerous great programs ranging from “adopting” your very own shark to scholarships and educational outreach. I encourage you to check them out to further educate yourself on the predicament of sharks worldwide.
Finally, I found this great video called the “Death of a Deity” by Joe Romeiro of 333 productions which does a superb job portraying how incredible sharks are, how vital they are to the ecosystem of coral reefs, the inhumanity of shark fining and also the degree to which generally human activity is damaging sharks and the ocean at large.
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Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.
~ Ogden Nash
Not too long ago I displayed a charcoal drawing of a Rhino to which a friend of mine teased, “That looks more like Rhino butt to me.” Fair enough, but I have decided more nature butt is in order.