Totemality

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...

16 November, 2023

Totem 206

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...

05 November, 2023

Totem 196

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...

07 October, 2023

Totem 191

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...

18 September, 2023

Totem 189

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...

07 September, 2023

Totem 188

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...

04 September, 2023

Totem166

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...

23 July, 2023

Piggy-pop

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...

20 July, 2023

Totem 182

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...

02 July, 2023

Totem 148

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...

29 April, 2023