Mushrooms, Balloons, and UBOs

This drawing evolved from the ink washes mindlessly applied to the page. The rest derives from my RoarShock associations with forms and may have something to do with my time as a seminarian.

Below: Another wash beginning. Fruit, cuckoo bird and balloons Must go somewhere ...

 

I made this drawing a couple weeks ago. Yesterday, while paging through Carl Jung's Red Book at a friend's house, I saw a similar sharp toothed creature eating.

We attended a Multiple Sclerosis informational dinner last week during which the speaker, Dr. Aungdin, told us that MRI brain scans show not only the black holes of demyelination, but also UBOs. The meaning of these Unidentified Bright Objects is unknown. 

Tanda Impostors to P Q

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Seeking the unconscious can be mind numbing. Just when you think you've arrived, con men trickle out of the forest to pimp the impostors. Later you realize these interpretations are only ways to affirm that sanity exists ... somewhere.

If one expects reason to prevail during ink therapy doodling sessions ...  hahahahaha!

This doodle makes me think about the many good things that come out of nowhere. Of course those good things are hidden in symbols that my affectionate readers can only guess at. So please go ahead and interpret the rest of these ink therapy doodles for yourself. The best story wins a free print.

Toltec Mysteries and Education

My understanding of Toltec mysteries derives mainly from inking meditations (ink therapy) with Tanda, who has transformed himself, below, into a black bird perched atop widely-spread Omega legs. 

As a Toltecian skeptic, I must question all forms in this world. This inking session points to 9 Mitote mysteries which simply state: life is not always what it appears to be.

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9 Toltec Mysteries

The sensory world is fractured into endless dualities: matter and spirit, light and dark, day and night, positive and negative, hot and cold, conscious and unconscious, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. 

The education of Toltec Warriors and Artists began with learning how to navigate the dualities of right-brain vs left-brain and to recognize the world of Mitote. 

Narcissus und Goldmund Path

The Toltec Empire and leaders created an unmatched mystique in the minds of the Central American people. The Toltec leaders were thought of as being alongside deities. Later cultures often revered them and copied their legends, art, buildings and religion. Many future rulers of other cultures, including Mayan leaders and Aztec emperors, claimed to be descended from the Toltecs.

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The View from Below

Here's another delicate moment of equilibrium: The view from Tanda's lair, the underside of the paper's surface. Tanda, pen-headed representative of the unconscious world, exposes alter egos; the mirrored pool looks back at Narcissus.

Tanda Exposes Alter Egos

Tanda is such an attractive and helpful underworld guide that it's easy to forget the dangers involved in the conscious world.

Cinco De Mayo

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Threads of the Unconscious Mind

Dear Brother,

You may recall my interest in and tales of artists who tap their unconscious in ways which turn out to prophetize their demise. I've known two such artists personally; a painter of underwater scenes who drowned in Lake of the Isles and a sculptor specializing in bronze heads who loses his head to a machete. 

Well, last week I came across another powerful example of such an artistic irony in Raleigh at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Here stands the elemental death mask of Michael Richards, sculptor. Michael posed for his own sculpture emtitled "Tar Baby vs St. Sebastian"; a commentary on the shabby treatment afforded the heroic members of WW II's all black, Tuskeegee Airmen upon their return home from the War.

"Tar Baby vs St. Sebastian", Michael Richards, 1999

                                               
     Michael Richards died in the World Trade Towers on 9/11/2001.


FIN

Equilibrium Means Temporary

All of my inquiries into Oriental philosophy have informed me that CHANGE is at the Center of the Universe. 

I recall a similar physical science maxim: Equilibrium is a temporary stage in the life process of a river. Of course, I know that because I have drawn many profiles of a river’s life.

Here are another few profiles … 

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The Wader

Don't worry, Tanda. The wader has your bill.

Tanda’s links to the unconscious mind are being courted, it seems. It’s transparent that the wader must love to pay the bill for change.

Batman’s Guano

Batman’s guano sofas made Tanda sleepy

It seems there exists two kinds of wisdom in the world and one kind is bat wisdom. That is why humor is the only Virtue one must defend to the death. 

Sous-chef Tanda

The subconscious mind does not have to worry. That’s the rooster’s job. This should clarify the blending for a peaceful mind.

pax vosbiscum

A Brief Photo Vacation for All 300 Subscribers

A brief respite from my pen and ink drawings ... 

The past few days of rain have brought our Jacaranda Tree (started from a few pods 20 years ago) into a conjunction with my favorite automobile, The elegant Beverly, a 1990 Buick LeSabre. 

Here are a few views of that union:

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Beverly LeSabre

Windshield view

Faithful MAC view

In the garden ark

With the Firecracker plants

That's all Folks!