Totemality is based on Plato’s ‘analogy of the sun’, where Plato tries to demonstrate ‘higher truth’ using sunlight as an analogy. The sun, light, how we see and know objects, are meant as a pointer to ‘higher truth’. So, in the analogy, Plato describes the sun...
The Totem visits the Hare, with warm greetings and a warning. All ears, Hare listens well to what the Totem does tell. “The clock is a trap dear friend; time is best left overhead the Hatter instead." Just like that Hare did the act, maddening the...
The ‘fourth wall’, known in film & cinema, is the conceptual barrier separating the fictional world from the real world. The fourth wall 'breaks' when an actor looks directly into the camera, drawing attention to the barrier. When the audience is addressed in this way,...
Art is more than just a visual medium; it is a conduit for ideas to affect emotions. It is also a way to read the world to expand comprehension within human experience. And so artists often create works that interconnect different symbolic meanings. This helps...
These past few years have proved to be a resurgence of my creativity. To which I attribute it to some time off from work in early 2020. During that time, I was given a pause in my life to reconnect with photography and creativity in...
What part of the mountain can you take into your hand and claim it's a mountain? This rock, this snow, this grass, this bird, this insect? Does the morning light reveal the mountain?Does the cloud touch the mountain?Does the water bathe the mountain? The mountain captures the...
I have mistakenly labelled some of my art as surrealist. I don't think it is. In particular, the 'Totem' series touches upon themes of mind and the unconscious (the cornerstone of Surrealism), but by narrative only, not in its style. So what is the Totem series? I...
A Psychedelic story that you may enjoy: Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung was born in 1875, the year of the pig. In 1906, Jung had interacted with a patient that had hallucinations of tubes coming down from the disc of the sun, which he believed was the ‘origin...
It was a comment from Jos that brought this piece into clear view. Jos said, “What is the totem? The 2CV or the load on the top?” His question was not a question, but a realization, a proclamation. In some way a trap as well. I responded, “Thanks...
The Totem is a conceptual art series that proposes a new formulation of the origins of the cosmos. It supposes that just as matter eventually emerged from the Big Bang, a timeless mind was always there, in concert with the formation. Beyond this, as the...