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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!)
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
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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
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But chicken dad is too focused to care
Also a real chicken foot print in red
#psychedelicart #visionaryart #stoicism #hedonism #integration #shadowwork #archetype
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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 💫
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#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 💫
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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)
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*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 Fabula" - 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
"Satori Square" - can you find all the hidden shapes?
You might have seen this one before. A 2020 take on the mystical, numerological omni-directional palindrome that is said to be a blessing, and protection.
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS
Cheers
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Want your life story converted into a one-of-a-kind living visual masterpiece?
SYMBOL MAPPING could be the next big thing you do for yourself - sit down with a devout humanist and visual synthesizer (Me) who will listen to you for hours without editing, and reflect back to you the beauty that you might not even be aware of yourself.
Tying together triumphs, struggles, and keys to peace all inside one multi-dimensional story made of visual art
🔥
DM or click the link in my bio for details
A piece I made, that became the inspiration for that super graphic one you've seen me post progress shots of. This is the portal shape (Tehom's Gate/Illusion Peak Arch) that I used for the top of Acta est Fabula.
It appears as though the top of the arch curves upward, when in reality, the lines are completely straight with no dip.
I hope you enjoy
My first mandala in progress. Preparing for a self ceremony this evening. Going to be focusing on letting go, forgiveness, balance and reintegration of self.
The past few months have been some of the most painful and desolate I've spent. And I've done a lot in them. But it seems like the more I press forward, the harder it gets to press forward.
I'm weary. And wanting some peace.
Praying that this evening will be one of the things I need to be able to move forward fluidly and without so much strife.
Cheers..
"What I See on My Mantle" - begun in 2020, finished in 2023. The unique paraedoilia that I began playing with that expanded my relationship with form and image and my unconscious
This is an original size 11x17" for sale for $200. DM for details
Curious about the process?
I'll be sharing some of the tricks to getting into flow in week 5 of "Drawing from the Soul" with @illustrationbybo
Latest progress on "Acta est Fabula"
@emorfik has been such a large part of the frequencies filling my head and helping me channel all this pain into beautiful art.
I call him a "rage alchemist" 😄
I'm somewhere between 100-200 hours into this piece, and I expect probably another 100 before I'm done.
It's only 11x14", but I've taken so much time and care and carefulness in the details and design of this.
And spent a lot of time crying and bawling and even making new pieces that come about and ask to be made as im working my way through this meatgrinder hellscape.
I am hoping and trusting that when this is done, there will be a great relief in me.
The last few months... actually, since October, have been spent going to my depths and uncovering, dancing with and feeling with emotions I never thought could have been there.
I've learned so much. And destabilized so much. And forgotten it and remembered and fell apart again and again.
And though I've taken a few detours and disrupted my process a number of times, I am recognizing the importance of completing this component of the Great Work, and so I have been putting whatever energy I can muster into finishing this.
I've been so gutted lately, it's been near impossible to get myself to do basic needs things, let alone work on anything else.
Somehow I've cranked out a 92 page workbook for @illustrationbybo and I's upcoming art course
If you believe in my page, the information I put out and would like to support me - consider joining "Drawing from the Soul" commencing this Saturday.
You are also welcome to commission me for a symbol map :)
But no pressure... this man will eat one way or another.
And big things will be coming soon.
I feel it
Thanks for tuning in to my frequency if you read this far. It's been hard for me to myself lately
Circa 2007-2008. I guess I did have some drawing chops before 2020. Hah. This disrupts my story a bit... but at the same time, my ability to draw and express and imbue things with energy was nowhere what it is now. And that, came to me and out of me without any practice. It was an awakening of sorts.
The secret part of Symbol Map #0012 you didn't see...
BLOOM IS COMING
I tend to put things in and on the Symbol Map that only get delivered to the client. That is - if I ever make prints (with their permission), I like them to have something special, something more.
Even when I make a personal original piece, I always put some kind of special mark on it AFTER I have scanned the file for print.
That way, an original is not only a captured piece of time and energy, but also has some Easter eggs that can't be found elsewhere :)
I have a few originals left for sale at this point. DM me if you're interested ❤
Cheers
Delighted to have received this piece from @___vvitch____
"The Desire to be a good person is in and of itself evidence of that which we seek"
We were speaking on the topic of worrying about whether or not oneself is sociopathic, in energetic terms "bad" or "evil"
(If you pay attention to the implications of labels we use you'll find that most terms are used to describe people as either good or bad).
I just got to the portion of One Piece where Nico Robin is a major focus, and her self value and self worth is played on and preyed on by the world government, as well as her own questions and doubts.
This piece was made quite a while ago, and I didn't get to take it home the night it was gifted to me. Not until the night both self worth and Nico Robin got brought up in conversation.
I turned it upside down as I often do to see if there were any relevant forms that gave it more contextual meaning - I've found this practice to be a gold mine of meaning, adding to what a piece's right side up form has to share. It's been a factor in many of the "psychic" moments I've had with people, and with Symbol Maps.
If you've ever watched the show, you'll realize immediately that the upside down version looks strikingly similar to Nico Robin...
What a coincidence 😉
Sometimes I feel like I'm problem shopping like a greedy customer with an infinite (ai curated) menu
I've found a lot of posts and perspectives out there on Instagram to be helpful in the past, and I think I've learned a good bit from being on here
But SHEESH, I am seeing a little trend in me.
So much noise....
And as goofy as I make it sound, it's actually serious.
I wonder what drives this human to do such a thing?
I don't do it all the time.
But, it's real for me. And I'd like to pierce this veil of a curated persona, and be a little honest with ya :)
Chee.....
Blah
👊
"Octomind the All" - 2024 Bristol & Pen 11"x14"
Would you like a print of this or of your own beautiful ideas and emotions translated onto paper? DM me and let's make magic happen!
This will be turned into a tattoo by a lucky (or unlucky) artist who draws on people. Not my style, skin. Not yet anyway...
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"Together Now" (Poem)
The bonds ARE wearing THIN,
The secrets ARE within...
MOVE forward with all your HEART
You'll find the way 2 WIN!!!
Not 4 One, not Apart,
In Living, you'll find your ART
By LOVING all the P-A-R-T-S
The EVIL shall not RESTART
For it shall be Dissolved...
By tender, loving halls
And wisdom inspired WALLS
You are One, You Are All, Not a victim of a fall
SO BE KIND TO YOU first
And so find the QUENCH of thirst."
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Thanks for reading and thanks for checking this out.
I hope you've enjoyed.
And I'd be honored to work with you 😊🙏
Cheers
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Now just to add a few finishing touches... (swipe)
"Octomind the All" - a representation of a philosophical mind meld that represents my client's beliefs on evolution, consciousness, the elements and the synthesis of how humans have grown up with the trees and everything else. With shout outs to Avatar the Last Airbender and much more. Love points the way... there's about 5 hours of conversation recorded in this piece, so don't expect a thorough explanation 😄
I would love to have you commission a piece! I'll help you pull the things you want out of your head and channel them into something beautiful. Reach me @ mrmuscatello@alcheme.ooo or via DM!
And the opportunity to be at your service keeps gas in my bus and food in my belly 🙏
Dearly loved working on this as much resistance as it created.
Scans coming soon...
Cheers 💫
#mushrooms #octopus #penandink #psiloveyou #evolution #consciousness #visionaryart #blackandwhite #Alchemy #avatar
2020 - (AlcheMe Vision Board) "Michael is a Sales Trainer turned Professional Personal Life Coach, with a deep engagement in our collective psychological narrative. Through the power of symbols, experiential learning, and asking WAKE UP empowering questions, his vision is to Brinf Eden back to History in a time where we talk faith the most. It's a creative, cooperative, curious co-mingling, that would best be described as something like MC Escher meets The Far Side. Tap into a tendril of our Collective Source Code, with AlcheMe.
(Then listed below) - networking, coaching, virtual events, downloadable exercises, company tailored training/coaching, blogging, art gallery, symbolism game
This was a highly intuitive, partially intentional piece I was challenged to do by @illustrationbybo , when the magic and unconscious structuring in my artwork became evident both on paper, and in synchronous life events.
It's paved the foundation for much of how I provide my service and value to myself and the world
Cheers 💫
P.S. - do you see the big face? It's a side profile looking to the right of the page
The INCEPTION of Symbol Mapping - Part 1
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I'll be sharing some more of this story over the next couple days... or maybe today 😄
This was what experientially proved to me the unbelievable power of symbols to dredge up the psychological and emotional depths of a person - the things that typically sat outside the conscious realm.
This was an entry level sales role where it was hard to get people interested in being there, let alone showing up on time or participating.
The class I worked with ended up hugging each other, and developing bonds that were beautiful - simply, human.
The power I've seen in not only symbols but in the participative act of creating personal symbols that express a facet of someone's life has expanded so far since then...
And I've even been able to curate it into a workable, transformational service.
But it's not inherent to me or my skills.
It's a human feature I've had the blessing to uncover.
Have you ever tapped into your unconscious with creativity?
If not... it's not really something that you even have to learn.
It's innate. You don't even need someone like me to help you connect to it.
But I can make it easier :)
And you can use me to have a Map done, or you can learn to do them on your own!
Would you like to learn more?
Message me. I don't bite 😁
And neither do the sensitive parts of ourselves, when we approach them with creativity.
Cheers 💫💥❤
@sacredspaceconnection
This ^
Let go of the unhelpful form of pride that makes you lone wolfin it
Or, trust yourself to be vulnerable and rely on others
Get clear on what it is you feel you need
And let others feel the beautiful feeling of being able to be there for you
You know how it supports you to be someone who helps others
Let them help you too
Don't be greedy with all the fun ;)
Cheers 💫
And thanks for this Salient post today! @sacredspaceconnection
To inquire about your own personal Symbol Map from the AlcheMister himself,
click here.