Jaw Dropping Revelations
18”x24” acrylic painting done on a stretched canvas. I wanted to create an expression that reflects opening your eyes for the first time and realizing that the world around us as we know is an illusion created by greed and seeing all the potential possibilities that are here that we were told to never dabble in. I got this feeling in 2018 after attending my first arts and music festival, Electric Forest and taking myself into my first psychedelic spiritual experience and getting to see 10s of thousands of people being truly one, dancing as one, vibrating as one, laughing and smiling as one, sharing the same tree roofs as one, expressing as one. You look around at others living in their own experience but together in union and realizing what beauty and power these individuals carry from within, each soul. I will never forget when the words uttered from my lips, “oh wow everyone is so beautifully themselves, that means I can be anything I want!” It was a huge revelation for me, and I feel so connected knowing so many others shared that experience. I use the same colors for the face and the background to signify how we are from the “background” it is an illusion that you see you in the spotlight as something more special, but you are not, you are the background which means anything is possible, you can be your dreams, you can shine as bright as you want while also celebrating everyone and everything in your same “background.” Background being the world and everything surrounding us.
18”x24” acrylic painting done on a stretched canvas. I wanted to create an expression that reflects opening your eyes for the first time and realizing that the world around us as we know is an illusion created by greed and seeing all the potential possibilities that are here that we were told to never dabble in. I got this feeling in 2018 after attending my first arts and music festival, Electric Forest and taking myself into my first psychedelic spiritual experience and getting to see 10s of thousands of people being truly one, dancing as one, vibrating as one, laughing and smiling as one, sharing the same tree roofs as one, expressing as one. You look around at others living in their own experience but together in union and realizing what beauty and power these individuals carry from within, each soul. I will never forget when the words uttered from my lips, “oh wow everyone is so beautifully themselves, that means I can be anything I want!” It was a huge revelation for me, and I feel so connected knowing so many others shared that experience. I use the same colors for the face and the background to signify how we are from the “background” it is an illusion that you see you in the spotlight as something more special, but you are not, you are the background which means anything is possible, you can be your dreams, you can shine as bright as you want while also celebrating everyone and everything in your same “background.” Background being the world and everything surrounding us.
18”x24” acrylic painting done on a stretched canvas. I wanted to create an expression that reflects opening your eyes for the first time and realizing that the world around us as we know is an illusion created by greed and seeing all the potential possibilities that are here that we were told to never dabble in. I got this feeling in 2018 after attending my first arts and music festival, Electric Forest and taking myself into my first psychedelic spiritual experience and getting to see 10s of thousands of people being truly one, dancing as one, vibrating as one, laughing and smiling as one, sharing the same tree roofs as one, expressing as one. You look around at others living in their own experience but together in union and realizing what beauty and power these individuals carry from within, each soul. I will never forget when the words uttered from my lips, “oh wow everyone is so beautifully themselves, that means I can be anything I want!” It was a huge revelation for me, and I feel so connected knowing so many others shared that experience. I use the same colors for the face and the background to signify how we are from the “background” it is an illusion that you see you in the spotlight as something more special, but you are not, you are the background which means anything is possible, you can be your dreams, you can shine as bright as you want while also celebrating everyone and everything in your same “background.” Background being the world and everything surrounding us.