revealing + connecting the worlds of the unseen + seen
Art: Unseen + Seen
Art
The Poartry Project considers art to be poetry in visual form. As a visual artist, I create both current and futuristic art that reveals, relates and unites the worlds of the seen and the unseen to connect the dots of what unifies us all and to point the way to our shared noble destiny as stewards of a harmonized world. My “Art of the Seen” works in traditional art-making materials to represent physical forms of the natural world with the dynamic living energy of the form shining through via the movement of paint laid on by hand. Art as poetry is the medium of magic, the sails of the sacred and the wings for wonder, wisdom and imagination. My Art of the Seen makes visual the adventure of making magic, setting sail and taking flight with the poetry of nature. See farther below for my Art of the Unseen and Golden Threads of Good Books Art.
MY APPROACH + PROCESS
As a child, my senses were always acute, especially my eyesight. My vision was exceptionally keen in the dark; things were as clear and visible to me in the night as during the day, and the shadows only seemed to reveal the light even more. When I looked at the sky over the ocean, I could see little round particles dancing in the air. When I closed my eyes to go sleep, I saw intensely beautiful swirling colors in the region of my brow. I thought everyone did.
In my early 30s, I discovered meditative practices, and my senses became even more acute. I began to see what looked like shimmers, pathways and centers of energy in everything – like having x-ray vision. I could accurately see the inner anatomy of people, animals, plants and minerals within the form, and I found myself able to perceive very specifically when and where people and animals were sick or injured in their bodies. Through my natural abilities and training, what I could see beyond the form became more and more complex, beautiful and macrocosmic – vast architectures of elegant geometry telling a much deeper story than what is visible to the naked eye.
My creative process and intention for each piece of art I create is unique and applies the energy science and art of impression: With my faculties beyond the physical senses, I tune in with, perceive and make visual what I register as the substance, form, structure and essence beyond the physical form. As I share this new territory of the “world beyond the form”, new golden threads of good are woven in the consciousness of the perceiver interacting with the art, creating opportunities to connect with and understand deeper aspects and wider dimensions of themselves and the world in new ways.
Art of the Unseen
My “Art of the Unseen” is a pioneering creative field of magical discovery and revealing. Often digital because I find this medium lends itself more naturally to making subtle multidimensional energies visible through a process of discovery with the various tools in the software I use, the Art of the Unseen shares schematics of the elegant structures I perceive beyond physical forms. It is truly a magical world of extraordinary beauty, like looking through a microscope, telescope and kaleidoscope – often simultaneously. The energies and forces depicted in the Art of the Unseen shape our inner and outer physical, emotional, mental, psychological, communal and spiritual worlds and experiences. From people to music to cities to planets, all is energy, composed of energy. When you can see the soaring energetic palace of Bach’s music, the world is truly magical. When the true beauty that is humanity is made visible, it is easier to love and cherish all people with awe. The image accompanying this text is a top view of humanity as I perceive it. What a different perspective and different access this beautiful image provides for understanding who we really are collectively, traveling through the universe on this home planet together. The world of energies is the next frontier of our world commons to discover what we are really capable of, to encounter the shared universal story of our unfolding enlightenment as energetic beings, and to perceive and enact the real and lasting solutions to the personal, societal and global challenges of our times. When we wake up to and become adept in the world of energies that we are, we become agents of cause rather than passengers of effects, and reservoirs of true creativity open themselves to us. We begin to shape our reality, and the beauty and goodness lying at the heart of life can find its way into the light.
Golden Threads of Good Books Art
Golden Threads of Good Books are where the worlds of the seen and the unseen meet. Designed to serve as accessible and relatable trekking guides for the young and the young-at-heart, these books weave together the golden threads of good running throughout our shared history and world cultures to serve as a lighted path for those seeking to do good. These golden threads – the universal values that unite us all – are shared as stories of magical adventure, kindness, friendship and community. The “Shining Lights of the Common Good” who appear in them are children and adults; animals, plants, minerals and devas; towns, cities, planets; and the fantastical worlds of energy as yet mostly unknown, but awaiting discovery by those who are seeking. The child-like and sometimes otherworldly art that accompanies these stories provides doorways to the kind of imagination and free-thinking needed to perceive and respond to the “something more” that makes the heart of humanity so noble and so special in this universe.
Gallery:
Art of the Seen
This portfolio shares new original works, the latest of which and moving forward, are made with sustainable, nontoxic, vegan Natural Earth Paint (naturalearthpaint.com), as well as studies I created in online classes I took with established artists during covid lockdown. In many of those early classes, I experimented with whether principles being taught with oil painting as the medium could be executed in watercolor since I started out exploring watercolor as the potential medium to illustrate my Golden Threads of Good Books for Children. In later classes, I discovered that my magical art wand to enter the world of my true voice is the palette knife.
Gallery: Art of the Unseen
Exploring the the abstract, conceptual and energy beyond the seen
It is important to note with the Art of the Unseen that each image is a snapshot in time as perceived by one person. Energy is not fixed, and it changes form, flexes and flows, and evolves constantly. So these images should be considered as partial representations of certain dimensions of energy or conceptual idea that I, as the artist and cartographer of the unseen, have selectively chosen to make visible at a particular moment in time.
Gallery: Golden Threads of Good Art
The aim and hope of the Golden Threads of Good Books and their accompanying art is that the many lives who sense and seek the “something more” to life than meets the eye are encouraged in their seeking, affirmed that what they sense is real, experience expanded meaning in what they are looking for and finding, are fortified in their belief in the power and value of good, and are nourished by the expanded world of the unseen that connects us all and points the way to our noble destiny as stewards of a harmonized world.
World Good Story: Book of Planets
Chicago: A Universe Story
A Poetic Planet Earth Story
Art Purchase Inquiries
Please email me directly at poartryproject@gmail.com to inquire about purchasing selected art in the galleries above. Pricing is generally $450 – $1650. Artwork is available unframed or framed, and is priced accordingly.
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