Upon coming to Costa Rica and seeing that the mystic exoticism I expected to find either A.) doesn't exist at all or B.) exists in places I have not yet visited, I have been forced to rethink my life here and the expectations I hold. Being that I am an artist, as is everyone that exists, I have the power to physically manifest the reality I want in my mind into a tangible existent object or practice. Maybe this mystic experience and power I have come to search for has existed within me the entire time. I believe that any reality one wishes to live in is entirely possible; it simply must start from within and spiral outwards from oneself. We are the ones in charge of our surroundings and ourselves; we must merge the two in order to live in the reality we wish. This goes along with Tantric Principles of fusing the self with the cosmic to create inner and outer realization.
Keeping this concept in mind, many images I have created while being here exist as a physical representation my self and surroundings interacting, existing in two realities in order to find for what I am searching.
The world around us may not be what we want it to in the present, but that doesn't mean we can not change it. The resources required are all around us, inside and out.
Warrior Pose XXI, 2011
The Lesbian Warrior Princess I Know You Could Be, 2011
Sketch for Hat, 2011
Magazine Drawing Study, 2011
Cut Paper Stencil, 2011
Random Weave, 2011
Self Portrait with Fruit, 2011
Drawing on Hand that Probably Makes Me Look Like A Devil Worshipper, 2011
The Internal Conflict of Growing a Beard, 2011
Screenprint on Old Shirt, 2011
Map to A Furby's Inner-workings, 2011
Visions, 2011
Highlighter Study, 2011
Amy Winehouse Fan Art, 2011
Rebekah Brooks as Amy Winehouse, 2011
Cut Paper Study, 2011
Cut Paper Study, 2011
Cut Paper Study, 2011
Notebook Drawing from A Lonely Day, 2011
Front of my Notebook, 2011
Back of my Notebook, 2011
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