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"The Wet Dream", Oil on Canvas, 30" x 24" -- the third painting in my thesis, "Jātaka Tales of a Budgie-Sattva", describes a narrative of the young man and his budgie companion exploring an aquatic lens of the unconscious mind. In the painting the youth is confronted by an "Aqua-Sattva" or teacher fish, who is vertically suspended, its eye at the level of the boy's 3rd-Eye, serving as a symbolic and mnemonic reminder of the higher conscious state. Jellyfish brush against the young man from behind like curious fingers while the parakeet over his right shoulder exhibits a psychedelic morphism of crustacean and fish as an exploration of the aquatic condition. Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO's) play over and mask themselves as the background sea floor.
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The boy looks uncannily like my best friend who passed away about 6 years ago. He struggled with a variety of atypical psychological states that would bring him to the cusp of deific ecstasy, and at once hurtling back into a deep personal isolation, though he was most often surrounded by loving friends.
He frequently bent into a furious sort of rapture during which he would proselytize the simultaneous profound significance and meaningless of existence. His moods would quickly exhaust all but those who were closest to him. Ultimately, no one could keep up with his intensely polarized journeys. No one could follow him to that place at which he left this world.
I've never seen a work that's so miraculously captured this part of his essence that we all so deeply loved, and feared. We all struggled to lift him from those depths which seemed to suffocate him, to prevent him from diving back into that fathomless abyss yet again... but perhaps it were these beautiful, psycho-spiritual USO's which you've depicted here that always called him back.
Masterful. Thank you for creating this - I'll be sure to share it with those who miss him as I do. The Budgie-Sattva calls always from the beyond...
He frequently bent into a furious sort of rapture during which he would proselytize the simultaneous profound significance and meaningless of existence. His moods would quickly exhaust all but those who were closest to him. Ultimately, no one could keep up with his intensely polarized journeys. No one could follow him to that place at which he left this world.
I've never seen a work that's so miraculously captured this part of his essence that we all so deeply loved, and feared. We all struggled to lift him from those depths which seemed to suffocate him, to prevent him from diving back into that fathomless abyss yet again... but perhaps it were these beautiful, psycho-spiritual USO's which you've depicted here that always called him back.
Masterful. Thank you for creating this - I'll be sure to share it with those who miss him as I do. The Budgie-Sattva calls always from the beyond...