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VOID EMERGENT SERIES
(full metal, 1 of 1 prints, available only at Shroomski 6/17)
INDEPENDENTs
(some prints and some originals available for purchase. Inquire via phone or email for pricing/availability)
Symbol Maps
(coming soon... in the meantime, check out my instagram for a full spectrum look at this artist!)
Chyer boy is breaking into music production lessons...
Come getcha some. 1st hour is free! 🎵
@glydemusic is a budding producer out of Dallas Texas. He has a style that's growing into the smooth, nasty bass of projects like Tape B, and is learning faster than ya'll are ready for.
So blessed to get to share this gift (and I mean the act of making music - not a skill or a talent type gift) with others.
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Interested in getting your dancing feet wet?
Send me a DM, tell me what you'd like to accomplish. Fun... or professional releases
It's all in the cards.
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Cheers
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Did you know you can get a free workshop on August 7th that will help you sell your art with ease?
For higher prices?
Without selling out?
While creating even MORE value for your fans, connections and clients?
Come see us at THE SHROOMSKI SALES LAB II, on August 7th... You've never thought of sales, let alone art sales like this before. Guaranteed! Or your... well, it's a free workshop so--I just guarantee it'll be worth your while. Feel free to check out other testimonies, or ask to be put in contact with an artist who has already experienced the magic!
Ticket link will be live soon, in the mean time, feel free to DM or email me with questions or for a free strategy call like @naradacarter got here!
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@naradacarter
Narada Carter is a lovely and deep, heart centered artist who lives way out in the Northwestern Sticks!
He's not geographically surrounded by the kind of crowd that would typically receive his art, but he's STILL found a way to make it work and get his art out to the world, being featured in galleries, and holding the position of "favorite artist" of numerous collectors! No easy task!
You'll find a familiar psychedelic style, inspired by sacred geometry and widely known trailblazers like Alex and Allison Grey @chapelofsacredmirrors
But... you won't find anything just like what he creates. In an amazing blend of classic illustration and beautiful, colorful geometric overlays, Narada expresses the contents of his soul, and is open to helping you do the same - synthesizing your vision into a fantastical commission of realism, and beyond....
GO CHECK HIM OUT. GIVE MY MAN A FOLLOW!
And if you connect with a piece... don't hesitate to reach out so you can have it in YOUR home.
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@shroomskimag
Cheers
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"It's hard to get a good psychologist"
Why?
Because we're all human. Transference is real, and an individual can only meet you as far as they've met themselves.
No matter how much training, how much theory, and how many book hours - if the person responsible for supporting your care has not integrated or met aspects of themselves - when yours come up, they'll swap out non-judgemental space holding mode for direct advice giving mode. They'll cut off emotional expression that is vital for you to make it through what you're going through and proceed stronger.
It's really a terribly sad thing - the psychologist feels they've given the most apt advice, the patient congratulates the psychologist on how right and insightful they are and....
Ends up stuck with the same part of their issue or condition because the root of it has not been touched and contended with.
No one intends for this to happen, but because we are all human, and we rarely spend time attuning ourselves to the subtle internal resistance of our blind spots (I mean really who wants to live a life looking for the things their consciousness is trying to keep from them?), we end up having limits to the care we can provide another.
That's why, in my eyes - a true healer masters all the theories, and the practices - but learns to interact with their patients on a human to human basis. And furthermore, develops a keen sense for their own internal judgement - so that it doesn't manifest in the form of wonderful advice and direct correction of the patient.
If I was to work with a psychologist, I would need them to have:
- done a large portion of shadow work
- studied buddhist/zen philosophy
- engaged in dream/vision interpretation
- developed a strong relationship with archetype
- have gone through great emotional crisis and pain
- not subscribed to any one singular psychoanalytic theory
- had heavenly and hellish psychedelic trips
- a radical sense of sovereignty and individuation
- not offloaded their belief authority to any institution or government system
- understood the true value of "coaching" as a mirror, not as an instructor
- and so much more...
What are your thoughts?
@collinpf inspired
This is one of the best bits of feedback I've ever gotten - and it's all the more meaningful to me because of how much I respect this individual.
@molty_27 is an absolute killer on the sales floor, intelligent beyond comprehension, and viciously committed to excellence in every way.
A self describe "sales assassin", he knows his worth, and isn't a victim to false modesty. From D2D sales, to fast and hard convention booths, to multi-million dollar contracts, he's seen just about everything there is to in sales.
The Art of Selling has been a lifelong passion for him, and in his words, bordering on an ADHD hyper fixation. Not only is he constantly pushing himself to improve, but has invested in the above mentioned, top tier programs, along with Ziegler, Straight Line Persuasion, Solutions Selling, Consultative and the list goes on - to get this feedback from him, tells me something that I was already aware of - but it feels fantastic to receive such an honest bit of feedback, and for what I've put together to impact someone already so flush with sales knowledge. It's more than sales training, and that's why I love it.
All the more valuable, I know I can trust his feedback because the guy is honest as they come and isn't afraid to tell it like it is. He certainly is not someone to waste his own time.
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Have you been flirting with the idea of leveling your game up when it comes to interpersonal communications or sales?
Let me know. I'll help you determine if this is the right fit for you - and whether we work together or not, you'll come away with new perspectives and tools to try...
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Cheers
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A look inside my creative world...
My rock out world. My emotional world. My nomadic world.
I hope you enjoy ❤
For more info on my music @auristocvt.music check out my instagram page, or shoot me a DM!
Always happy to collaborate, provide tips and feedback, help getcha un-blocked creatively, or produce a track for a vision you have. My ear is my best attribute (today, anyway), and I love to share it with others
Cheers 💫
#bassmusic #DenverArt #denverbassmusic #dubstep
@olya_holidayy
Preferred anonymous...
This was one of the absolute best - not compliments - but, "seeings of" what it is I do and seek to do. And of course, it complimented me. What better purpose/effect could I serve?
I'm so grateful someone helped me realize it.
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Have something to say? Send it my way! We can keep it cool and cryptic (anonymous), or, I'll happily shout you out!
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If we haven't worked together before, and these kinds of results resonate with you... what are you waiting for?
If the answer had anything to do with whether it's possible for you or not - don't wait. Reach out, and let's see what we can create together.
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Cheers
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Do gooders: learning lessons doesn't determine your value.
And... don't get attached to being unattached from learning (if you listened to the whole post)
Objectify your skills... but not your value.
Take joy - en-joy your learning process. And when you can't, that's okay. You don't have to. You don't have to do anything - even acceptance is not a must.
But you get a lot more fruit that way.
...don't you just love that freeze frame?
😉
I never want to stop supporting and enabling others (within reason, of course 😉)
✅️ strategy
✅️ belief audits
✅️ tangible progress
ABOUT BDOT 📖:
This artist is a spectacular blend of business savvy, home making and visionary Art. Using dot mandalas - there is a certain sense of peace that is conveyed through the chaotic canvas of colors. Energy gets moved and transferred through her work - using sacred grids and real organic material as a form of media, you won't find anything like it elsewhere - you won't even find any two of her pieces are the same.
Go give @bdotartsy a follow, or visit her link tree on her profile page to learn more about the unique commissions she does, and what she currently has available. If you resonate with something - don't let it go elsewhere.
Thanks to @shroomskimag for the amazing platform to connect with other artists, cultivators of heart, and service oriented business practitioners.
Questions? Drop me a DM, or use the email located in my profile overview to get answers.
Cheers 👋
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This might sound a little cheesy...
It even sounds a bit cheesy to me as I sit here saying it. Because, I'm not fully in touch with the reality where I don't actually know if I'll be here tomorrow, or not. Funny, isn't it?
I don't suggest that we can be in that state in every moment. Maybe some of you can. But I cant. Instead, I give myself acceptance for how I'm feeling, without fighting to change it. Even if I'm in a "taking it for granted" mode. Because acceptance, that does seem to be controllable. Sometimes. And when it's not... I can accept that 🙃
I think there's value in all the states. Many of them, for learning what we don't want. Some of them, learning what we do want. Those desirable moments, for me, are typically colored by an intense sense of presence.
This morning, I saw a video of one of the healthiest, wisest wrestlers that I know, @benaskren first speaking after 45 days in a coma, having died four times, waking up after a lung transplant. And, knowing about his situation has really pressed me, because he is not the body I would expect to fall ill so rapidly. It took me at least 50% of the way to actual reality - where I'm in touch with my own mortality. It's not dark, nor a bad thing (when I accept it, anyway).
Most of us drive on a daily basis. Most of us will step outside. The chances of something happening is far from zero. That doesn't always hit me. But this morning, seeing him unrecognizable because of the weight loss, I realized I might not be here tomorrow. And even though I don't feel that in complete way (as I have in the past), I can trace my footsteps from when I was last.
So I'm going to do everything I would today. I'm not gonna fly across the country to be with a loved one. I'm not going to do anything drastic. None of that would truly serve that feeling I'm (we) looking for. I'm not going to say goodbyes, or try to make peace with dying. Drama doesn't seem to aid presence.
(CONTINUED IN COMMENT)
CMV: Disagreement is the 6th love language
It certainly is one of mine. It builds trust, when two people are able to passionately disagree, yet maintain fairness and benefit of the doubt for the other
I really love arguing on reddit. It helps me to discern what I think, and there's all sorts of juicy extreme examples to play in - which are like rorschach blots - fantasies of sorts, that within which I can find my own beliefs
But more than that, I get to witness my reactions to things, see what I react strongly to, and get a much better and more raw analysis of who I currently am
To boot, all of my communications are public, up for criticism, and I get to look back to see how I behaved in a given argument on a given topic. It's highly revealing. Not for the faint of heart...
It all started back in 2020 when I decided I would try to hone my verbal communications skills, by trying to debate earnestly online (which is typically fraught with the worst kinds of showings of people, hyper polarized, and lacking the human touch that helps people be reasonable). I figured, by throwing myself into the fire, I would learn to be effective at communicating even in the most toxic scenarios.
Has it always been beneficial?
No.
Have the moments of non-benefit ultimately contributed to a wide and rich experience whose sum total is beneficial?
Yes.
Do I always show up in a way I'd be proud of?
No.
Does that allow me the insight to see where I'm not integrated?
Yes. And it forces me to break down the image of perfection some of us tend to try to burden ourselves with.
I want your thoughts!
Cheers 💫
The man, the myth, the undying legend. Anthony Sabia, mastermind of @shroomskimag and a person who has rapidly become a good friend and high on my list of fondness
Cheers 💫
We're creating opportunity, harm reduction, and a wide variety of resources for so many
And doing it in Italian stallion bad mouth style. At least, Anthony is, and helping revitalize the paisan in me
Sold this beautiful 1/1 limited antique edition of ACTA EST FABVLA
Can't wait to make more dank things for you guys
🧪 At the Shroomski Sales Lab, we don't have to be face to face in order for you to help yourself grow.
Everyone that came last night - thank you for investing the time and attention into yourself. 🙏
🦾 A BIG thank you to:
𝘾𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙊𝙉 𝘿𝘼𝙑𝙄𝙎
Website: infinitehorizonart.com
Instagram @Infinitehorizonart
- Visionary Artist
❤️🔥 For your presence, your feedback, and being willing to share.
#artists #salestraining #artistsalestraining
#holisticbusiness #heartcentered
#freeworkshop
💌 Got a testimony to share❓️ Email me at mrmuscatello@alcheme.ooo, and let me know what information you'd like included (or not included) in your post!
@shroomskimag
Questions? Reach out to learn about our next event and how you can get in on it. 🤝
Cheers 💫
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IT'S TODAY! SIGN UP NOW!
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Don't miss out 🚫
You don’t need to be someone else to thrive as an artist, you already have what it takes.
You’ve shown up, created, and connected. Now it’s time to bring out more of what’s already working.
If you’ve ever:
❌ Undercut your own price
❌Struggled to ask for the sale
❌Juggled art and bills without a clear strategy
You’re not alone, and you’re not broken.
🧠 Join us July 2nd (TODAY) for the Art Sales Training Lab, a FREE workshop designed to help you lean into your strengths and sell art with confidence and intention.
We’ll help you:
✅ Identify what’s already working
✅ Price with clarity and confidence
✅ Connect authentically with buyers
✅ Reinforce your value and mission
This isn’t about fixing a “lack”, it’s about expanding your power.
💥 You are the solution.
🔗 RSVP now, link in bio.
✊️ One More Happy Client
*Check out nextsound.net for all your music artist resources. They're truly helping artists to escape the algorithm, connect with real listeners, playlists and radio shows - organically.
@_nextsound_
Their page is awesome, and I have already benefitted myself from using their thoughtful and tasteful service
Maybe you're next for their weekly picks list :)
#musicians #coaching #service
YSK, Van Gogh only sold ONE painting during his lifetime...
I bet he would've loved to feed himself, family and friends without struggling between making ends meet and painting to his hearts desire!
If you’ve ever:
Undercut your own price, struggled to ask for the sale, or juggled art and bills without a clear strategy...
You’re not alone, and you’re not incapable - in fact, you have everything you need to succeed in selling already. We're just here to elucidate and reinforce those things within you.
🧠 Join us July 2nd for our Sales Training Lab, a FREE workshop designed to help you lean into your strengths and sell art with confidence and intention.
We’ll help:
✅ Identify what’s already working
✅ Price with clarity and confidence
✅ Connect authentically with buyers
✅ Reinforce your value and mission
...and give you hard tools and strategies to succeed.
This isn’t about fixing a “lack”, it’s about expanding your power, domain and competency. 💥 You are the solution.
🔗 RSVP now, link in bio.
P.S. - don't miss out on our 50% off coaching offer. We can only provide a deal like that now, while the iron is hot ❤️🔥 available on the event sign up page - we'll get you scheduled right away, or save it for prior to your next deal or art show!
Dear artists, healers, heart-centered entrepreneurs, and visionaries —
You were told that if you just followed your passion, the rest would fall into place...
But here you are —
✅ Getting love, compliments, and interest…
❌ But not getting sales.
✅ Having deep, meaningful conversations…
❌ But not knowing how to turn them into real opportunities.
- Have you ever undercut your own price before someone even asked for a discount?
- Do you feel like people believe in you — but still don’t buy from you?
That ends here.
🔥 IT’S TIME TO SELL WITHOUT SELLING OUT
There is a way to sell your art, your healing, your practice —
In a way that leaves people feeling more connected, not less.
In a way that expands your mission, not compromises it.
You don’t need to change who you are.
You just need the right tools.
And a community that sees you, and wants you to win.
***🌀 DM @alcheme.mrm on Instagram OR
📥 Click the link in my bio for access to the event or to use my direct contact info***
🌱 THE SHROOMSKI SALES LAB (overview)
Training & Strategy for Creative Entrepreneurs
Led by career sales trainer Michael Muscatello, who’s coached at multi-billion dollar companies, and now teaches heart-centered leaders like you to:
- Stop leaving money on the table
- Make sales without manipulation
- Get your gifts into the hands of those who need them most
This isn’t Wolf of Wall Street...
It’s sacred clarity;
and the skillset to match your vision with impact
🎤 FREE SEMINAR • JULY 2ND
Learn the fundamentals. Join the movement.
🌐 Sign up, connect with us, or come talk with Michael directly.
"What you most need to find is where you'd least like to look."
— Carl Jung
@shroomskimag
This might be my favorite ad I've ever made.
Using the copy I came up with as part of my pitch toolkit, I was blessed to receive some tears from the people I approached and encouraged to explore our services.
Why do I love that?
It let's me know that I picked up a powerful scent, and am delivering something vital to those who need it most.
***You can sign up for our free 2 hour training session on July 2nd, both virtual and in person using the LINK in my bio. All are welcome - not just the categories of persona mentioned in the ad***
Or, DM me with any questions (alcheme.mrm)
"You give people so much space with your practice. You enable them in their lives. But in order to provide space, you need to have it. You deserve to have space too"
Cheers,
And welcome to the @shroomskimag sales lab ❤️🔥
There may be grid walls on the floor but damn if the bus isn't lookin' hella nice tonight
My bus's name is Calcifer. He's a he. I dont make the rules, ask him why. 2 years in, and this is the best decision I've made in my life (one of, or, I think so anyway)
#vanlife
"The key to success is to have a lot of pillows. A lot"
'Chyer boys are published. @shroomskimag
THE EVENT IS HERE
#psychedelicscience2025 #MAPS #visionaryart #artsales #salestraining #victorianesotericism
See us tonight at Baldoria on the Water at 6pm. Link is in bio - use CODE: MRM for 15% off... if there's any tix left ;)
Yes, I was reading on the toilet
🚽🎉
Denver, ready to MELT your mind? 🎨✨
On Tue June 17 the Shroomski Melt transforms Baldoria on the Water into the Super Bowl of visionary art:
• Live gallery + two auctions (event-wide & silent at each booth)
• Heavy-hitters: Bowen Bramwell • Chris Dyer • Amanda Sage & 20+ more
• Plus me, Michael R. Muscatello – bringing art beyond the eye and real-world sales secrets for artists who wanna level-up.
Why pull up?
🔮 Mural-scale originals + affordable prints
🎤 Meet-the-artists chats (ask those burning “how-did-you-do-that?” questions)
🏆 Only a few tickets left!
LINKS
Unlock the vibe → multipass.com/melt
Use code MRM for a friends-only discount before prices jump.
Tag your PSY tribe & save your spot.
#ShroomskiMelt #DenverArt #VisionaryArt #PsychedelicArt #ArtBeyondTheEye #LakewoodCO #BaldoriaOnTheWater #TrippyArt #ArtShow #ArtAuction
The Chicken Dad
- part of a piece I'm bringing to the @shroomskimag melt
Name potentials:
Hooked on Phoenix?
Phonetix?
Maybe the chicken dad is cool enough to take the name?
Let me know your thoughts.
Cheers.
P.S. that's a real boob print, what a blessing to this piece
😆
But chicken dad is too focused to care
Also a real chicken foot print in red
#psychedelicart #visionaryart #stoicism #hedonism #integration #shadowwork #archetype
NAME THE ORIGINAL - GET A FREE PRINT
I'm cooking some SHIII-ET
the VOID EMERGENCE series, AVAILABLE ONLY @shroomskimag SHROOMSKI MELT
I've got the biggest opportunity of my life. And I'm re entering after a year in the void
I'd love to sell some tickets for the amazing team who accepted me into the fold
Want to support me and the vision of my art journey and education project? More than that, the diligent handling of the re-emergence of entheogens to our culture?
Show some love and show up!
Or....
Like, share and comment on this post
Cheers 💫
DM OR TICKET LINK IN BIO USE CODE MRM FOR 15% OFF#
#fractals #fractalporn #geometry
If you didn't know, I got the opportunity to show at the @shroomskimag melt, the most buttoned up media and events company in the psychedelic and visionary art space. Ill be alongside artists like Alex and Allison Grey, @bowenbramwell, Chris Dyer and many more.
I've currently earned and received 2k out of the 4k to make this trip possible for me. More information on my first pinned post...
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Here's what the magazine page says:
"I'm not re-creating the definition of art... but rather, identifying and amplifying the key features and values which we interact with art for. It is an intentional attempt to see oneself--to SEE in general. With Symbol Mapping, I turn that lens on you.
How rare is it, to be fully and truly observed by another? Not without bias, but with the implicit understanding that you are love. Every dark twist and tendril of you. Whether a commission or one of these Maps... I’m a multidimensional synthesizer for All of Us."
This artist inhabits a refurbished hospital bus, and no surface is safe from his pen. founder of AlcheMe UNLIMITED--his artwork is borne of a necessity. That burning fire, desire, PASSION to communicate. To SEE, and be seen. Tempered in the fires of psychoanlytic, theologic and philosophical study, he is the experiment - and the experimenter.
There is more to what is presented here than the pursuit of aesthetic beauty. His artwork is an inner and outer expose of the soul - of the fleeting, un-nameable emotions and the spirit behind words and images. It is an attempt to capture the hiding details of what IS, like when we try to capture the occupations of particles through an electron microscope. Its a form of synthesis of the unending waves that pass through our conscious sphere. Michael’s art is something like M.C. Escher meets The Far Side.
Tattoo designs, graphics, and illustrations aside, his deepest passion with the pen is Symbol Mapping. A revolutionary remix of the ways we use art and dialogue, it paints a portrait of a psyche. You can think of it as a graphic interview, where he offers himself entirely as a conduit and space for a person's energy. To learn more about this potent application of art and... #MAPS
Thank you, for supporting me and my mission.
#maketheworldsovereign
I can't believe how quickly my people and community responded to support me. Thank you. It's hard to receive, and exciting at the same time. I'm taken aback.
A special thank you to Michael, who has supported me not once but twice now in my pursuit to get AlcheMe off the ground and *stay* in the air.
And a special thank you to Tommy who put me on his podcast!
Plus a thank you to everyone who is supporting me in other ways - emotionally, critically, and practically.
***I am wheeling and dealing to reduce my current costs for the trip, and I've had new opportunities to bring in income - I might be able to take the GoFundMe down before the goal is even reached!!!
(If you're unaware, time is the constraint that led me to make this decision to ask for help)
That said... I am still behind roughly 4k on the funds needed to make my voyage to Denver, and show my art on the biggest stage I've ever been on. I need to accomplish my goal by JUNE 12TH if I'm going to meet this opportunity.
Beyond selling art... I'm going to be launching a Life Skills and Professional Communication program through @shroomskimag , to support artists around the globe in being the integrated hippy that the 60s lovers werent...
We can't make the same mistakes if the counter culture is going to overthrow the dominator culture we currently live in.
You need to able to let go, AND bite down and bear your mission.
It looks different for everyone.
If you have questions, or you'd like to donate - the most recent post on my page will explain the whole story... and why I am asking for help in the form of money.
Thank you for reading.
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IF YOU DONATED, PLEASE CONTACT ME
- I need to know if you're receiving a limited edition print or a $100 credit
- if you're opting for the limited print, I need to speak to you so you can be included in the artwork :)
- I will also need shipping addresses - the prints will be done and shipped in July!
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Cheers 💫
❤
For all my heady philosophers wondering if they're alone out there... i mean wondering if theyre literally alone and the universe made of Mind, or its simulation 20 gajillion layers deep - this is what matters, and what I will do for you 🤍
"Treat them as if they're real,
That's the key secret.
SHHH-
*just kidding*
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SCREAM IT"
⚫️⚫️⚫️
This just written on my bus wall next to the heater - not a coincidence cause I'm gonna turn this word salad into a hot track 😎
Do you ever wonder if anyone else is really our there?
Cheers
I love @dennisalanvids
I love painting outside
I love ribeyes and lions mane
I like having a full kitchen with me wherever I go
And I love making coffee for friends.
(And I freaking love the little guy forming on slide 5)
...
*I'm going to be hosting some paint at the park days fairly regularly from here on out so if you wanna get outside, get down with some cool people, listen to music, smoke, eat, etc. - let me know. You're all welcome, and I can bring you supplies ❤*
"Acta Est Fabvla" - 2023/4 - Micron Pen - PRINTS AND ORIG8NAL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
11x14" - Original
11x14" + 22x28" - Prints available with cert of authenticity
DM for questions regarding the piece, inspiration, themes, narratives and/or purchase
Cheers MFs 💫
#darkart #blackandwhite #black #dantesinferno #franciscogoya #esotericart #Alchemy #shadowwork #selfexpression #visualrizz #artistsoninstagram #penandink #Bristol #Micron #horror #rickandmorty #soul #latinphrases #nextlevel #illustration #stippling #crosshatching #betrayal #purge #lifestory #inversion #Halloween #horrorart #Micron #pendrawings #escher
I'm getting really antsy to post this.
I've completed the drawing, theres prints coming to see me on Monday since I finished editing.
Im not sure whats stopping me from posting the whole thing but it doesn't feel right yet. So, have a teaser. (Info on the inspiration below)
There's only going to be FIFTEEN copies of the first run of this, and im not sure when I will ever print another batch.
(10) 11"x14" - $60
(5) 22"x28" - $120
Let me know if you'd like to pre-order/save a print of "ACTA EST FABULA" (The Play is Over). You can DM me since I still don't trust myself to keep up with an online store.
"Nothing is personal"
You mightve noticed this on the plank of wood leading into the bowels of this nightmare drama. It's because I grew sick of this wisdom from The Four Agreements being so useful in my life. It was and still is one of the deepest wisdoms in my life. But I was and still am sick of applying it.
When will it ever be personal? Could it? Are we all truly just trapped in our own reality bubbles? You, merely a figment of my mind who will consume me, attack me or love me based on the whims of your survival preference? Or is there humanness, and other conscious things outside of my shell, my snow globe?
This whole piece is an ode to that which pains me. And instead of trying to be some mystical big brother persona making love look cool, i decided to join the rabble and not protect anyone. It's the victimized perspectives of mine. The kind of logic untampered with by faith beyond reason. The kind of logic that has let go of the need to find something transcendent. The kind of logic that stops trying to put lipstick on a pig, and decides that's just what reality is - a hungry, carnivorous pig.
I don't want to think or feel these ways. And I hope that this expression will help me.
"Vivamus Moriendum Est" - let us live since we must die. A bold and faithful statement to make. I will enter despite the perils, because I will choose to sanctify life despite its unsavory features. It's placement on this piece is a perversion of that ethic. Or maybe, it's an expression of my disappointment or loss of heart in such a statement.
Excited to see the rest?
The "poetry" on the back of this piece.
I hope it's over when I finish...
Swipe to get a closer look at some of the words. It's intelligible whether you can read it all together or not. It's not what I wanted. It's not what I want. But most of the time lately, anything I write isn't anyway.
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The prose that came to me when this piece had its inception:
"My heart is breaking and my raft is sinking.
It's time to go live underwater.
Even if it scars my heart, I just want to see the dark"
It was an effort to strive against the conditioning to be a person who I think I am supposed to be - this piece is an inversion of and a spitting on of any and all "wisdom" I've collected and tried to put to use in my life. I'm sick of feeling like I must be a big brother to reality. It's a goof of an ego trip, and yet it is on pain of something far worse than death that I fear giving it up.
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The four agreements says to take nothing personally.
Well personally, I'm sick of that advice being useful.
When can it be personal?
Is there really anyone else even out there?
I can't tell whether it'd be worse or better if there were.
Sorry, not sorry.
- Michael
Another super oldie from the beginning of my adult drawing journey. Sept 2020, for my dad. Built on the idea that we all come a variety of stories, thoughts and beliefs that are not a perfect foundation for faith, and still, faith prospers in us.
Not the kind that's tied to a religion.
Faith in the greatest sense. Betting on the world, the self, humans and nature.
Faith is found in our walk. The theories we form about people, about how things work, made tangible in our act.
Partially inspired by @akirathedon
And @alanwattsorg
The song is in the post.
Cheers
@plaiche
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