MICRO ARTIST INTERVIEWS BY DEW
Featuring :
Nemo Boko - www.r6xx.com
Maura Holden - www.mauraholdenartworks.com
Daniel Mirante - www.lila.info
Carey Thompson - www.galactivation.com
Robert Venosa - www.robertvenosa.com
Pablo Amaringo - www.sensorium.com/usko
Jenny Zariat - www.zoeticart.com
Leo Plaw - www.leoplaw.com
Laurence Caruana - www.lcaruana.com
Luke Brown - www.spectraleyes.com
Andrew Jones - www.androidjones.com
Dew is a Light Science correspondent dedicated to seeking condensed essences from artists and art culture creators.
By asking specific questions and requiring short polished answers, Dew manages to distill language from people famous for communicating
with paint more than paragraphs. This series of micro-interviews show a cross section of artists perspectives from North America, South America and Europe.
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Nemo Boko
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"Tlaloc Landscape" by Nemo Bokodew : How do you characterize the art you are making and what are you intentions with making it?
nemo : The art I feel drawn to create the most are deeply intentional magical manifestations of my will. They are meant to have a concrete transformative effect within myself or the world. They are largely created in a trance state to access the creative energy of the deep mind and to connect that world into manifest reality. I feel greatly inspired by tribal art, neolithic art and bronze age cultural artifacts. I feel that these tribal and traditional people were approaching art from a similar perspective and that if you peel back the cultural accretions and techniques you are left with raw creative expressive energy - and that energy, is what I wish to explore through my work.
This raw energy, I believe, is at the root of all the worlds religious and spiritual traditions. It is the "traditional", repetitive aspect that draws us away from the personal gnostic experience of communion of spirit in the moment - and insists the experience be seen through a specific lens. I want to peel back the lens and experience with eyes wide open.
dew : As an artist you are also doing a considerable work creating a community platform for promoting and selling art from many different artists, can you talk about this process and your intentions for doing this?
nemo : The deeper intention is promoting the dispersal of transformative memes throughout the world. The end goal is a planet of greater tolerance, enlightenment, empowerment and beauty. I recognize my own art may not speak to people in the way that i would like for them to receive it so i look for other voices with similar intentions so that all our artistic voices may harmonize to greater achieve the goal of global cultural transformation.
dew : In relation to the direction art culture could be moving to in the future, what are your higher visions for where transformative art culture could go in actualizing its potential?
nemo : I believe as technology advances the "youtube" revolution of customized media will expand into the third dimension. I wish to see a future in which people are crafting and manifesting their own empowering amulets, talismans and portals in all of their household accoutrements. In this way, the archaic will become the future and we will imbue those utilitarian aspects of our life with soul and with a part of ourselves once again.
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Maura Holden
Divisions of Neptune - by Maura HoldenDew : what is the future of art?
Maura Holden : The future of art is to invent and reform the myths that guide culture. By understanding the myths of the past, and how they've brought us to where we are today, we can form new myths after visions of compassion and spiritual awe, or whatever we feel moved to express
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Daniel Mirante
Yemanja Pantanal - by Daniel Mirante
Dew: what is the future of art?
Daniel Mirante: To flow with, support and express the transformation of our realities, initiating and celebrating the experience of wonder and awe as the veil thins between our gridlocked materialist story-time, and the realms of enchantment which exist upon earth and in the astral. Art is a rainbow bridge taking us beyond history into the profound intimacies of the human experience and further into the eternal aeons of Spirit. Visionary art facilitates the ingression of the good, true and beautiful, the wisdom-dharma of the Divine, into Gaian nature-culture.
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Carey Thompson
Dew : What is the role of art at the Boom Festival?
Carey Thompson : In general, art is a means to demonstrate and reveal the present state of human consciousness. At Boom, it is a especially revelatory as it brings together artists and creators of all types to co-create, share and make aware that we are all one collective being tapping into the same source of universal creativity.
Dew : What is the message of your art?
Carey Thompson : The main message of my art is that we as humans are all interconnected. We are all part of an infinitely vast network of interrelationships inseperable from anything. The intention within my art is to catalyze this awareness in people to assist in the reharmonization of our species within the greater whole.
Dew : What is the role of art in the emerging culture?
Guardian of the Sky Portal - by Carey ThompsonCarey Thompson:
I believe the role of art is really important in culture today because it provides insights and possibilities into what are potential roadmaps and ways in which culture can be steered. Art has an amazing power to transform individuals within at a base cellular level. Through that individual change it shifts and continues to effect other people, exponentially creating a movement and snowballing effect that effects global culture through todays means of communication and cross-pollenation. The intention we put behind the art infuses and crystalizes that experience. The transference of that intention through the art is an amazing and powerful way of ultimately transforming people and the world through an initial shift that occurs at a core level of being.
Dew : What is the function of art at festivals like Boom Festival?
Carey Thompson :
I think a lot of us here are involved in many festivals, including large events in the states like burning which is a huge exhibition of art on all levels and exhibition scales. Boom more than any other festival that i am aware of is super global and international. Art is very important at this festival as it gives us an opportunity to see what other artists in other parts of the world are doing. In essence this is so revelatory because we can see that we are all collectively tuning into something that is happening on a global scale. This is a really important thing to realize that its not an isolated experience we are all going through, its a field that is occurring across the whole globe. As artists we have resonating potentials to tune into these frequencies and serve as conduits for what is going on. Here we can see how people in different parts of the world are translating those energies that are coming through, and for all of us to be able to see what we are doing, share ideas and cross pollenate. It's so important that we make these connections and gain creative insights from people in other parts of the world. This is what's necessary to get this movement going and catalyze a quickening to really accelerate what's happening. We are sharing and getting feedback occurring that is going to open up these portals for us to receive more of what's coming through in order to create the shift that we are all envisioning, co-creating and dreaming. Boom is so important because it is international and global, and thats what we all realize here and what we are doing, we just need to keep on doing it.
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Robert Venosa
Angelic Awakening - by Robert VenosaDew : What is the future of art education?
Roberto Venosa : The future of art education is dependent first of all on governmental budget considerations. Without the funding for grammer, high school and university art education and its teachers (which is at a minimum, if existent at all today) the creative aspirations of the aspiring artist will be diminished which, in effect, jeopordizes the evolution of culture.
Without any inspiring, cultural environment, society is doomed to materialistic, militaristic values and its eventual dissolution and destruction.
Dew: What is the role of art in festival culture?
Roberto Venosa: The inclusion of art in festival culture takes on an invaluable role as it greatly enhances the overall experience of the participant. The visual input has proven to be a profoundly inspirational, exciting experience, as proven by the attraction and success of the installations and surrounding art projects at Burning Man, Glade, and the Boom Festival, amongst many others worldwide.
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Pablo Amaringo
Caros Divinos - by Pablo AmaringoDew: What is the future of artistic education?
Pablo Amaringo: The future of artistic education is: that every human being may discover that to live is an art. In the future, all art teachers will teach through conscious ability and creative imagination how to reach genuine development of the intellectual, moral, and spiritual faculties, the senses, and physical strength.
Dew : What is the future of art?
Pablo Amaringo : The future of art will be a model through which all of humanity may come to know the greatest artist of life, the Creator and Legislator of all that exists in life both physical and spiritual.
Dew : How can art be shamanic?
Pablo Amaringo : Art can be shamanic when the artist paints visionary things, multiforms full of colored visualizations in other worlds, through the ingestion of hallucinogenic plants, where the spirits teach us the maximum artistic expression, which are good actions, attitudes and habits in physical life.
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Jenny Zariat
Photo of Rainbow Serpent Festival - by Jenny ZariatDew : What is the role of art in the emerging culture?
Jenny Zariat :
That goes into the definition of what is art and what is culture. In a lot of ways those two things are intermingled expressions of each other. There is always the classic debate does art reflect culture or does culture reflect art? In this time we are discussing the culture we are in now, with people traveling across borders and expanses of the mind that have not yet been traversed, combining influences from geographical and chronological intersections to create new conceptions. At this time, art is changing its form from being received as a two dimensional flat space into more of a multimedia expression. People are becoming more accepting of various artistic expressions.
www.zoeticart.com
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Leo Plaw
Der Engel - by Leo Plaw
Dew : What is the role of art in the emerging culture?
Leo Plaw :
Art always shows us the new direction, it takes us to places we have never been before. Even at a basic design level everything you see around you has been created by a human mind, by a human hand. It takes somebody with a creative mindset to visualize these things, manifest these things and bring these things forth. Regardless of what art form we are talking about, its artists who manifest our future. We are reflecting the age or the aeon that we are moving into and that is why the peculiarity of what our art form is, and why it is becoming so prevalent, is because it matches and resonates with the time and the needs of the age in which we live in now.
www.leoplaw.com
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Laurence Caruana
The Face of Kali - by Laurence CaruanaDew : What is the function of art at festivals like Boom Festival?
Laurence Caruana :
What we are trying to create here at the Boom is a sacred space. It is a space where you yourselves can reach beyond your own limits and capabilities. You can do this on the dancefloor, in the theatre, by just being alone on entheogens, or you can come to the gallery. The whole potential of this gallery is much different than galleries you see out on the streets in any town where the art is just there for sale or for you to buy it because you like it. Here the art is being shown, its for free, its just there for you to gaze upon, and as you gaze upon it, the art starts to open up its doors, it opens up doors that are inside of you. As you start to interact with the art it becomes a journey, a voyage, it brings you to that sacred place that we are looking for. We are here in this sacred place as well as a sacred place that is inside of you. Thats is what is coming out when you are looking at a work of art with your eyes open. This is what we are tying to do by providing the art here in this space.
www.lcaruana.com
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Luke Brown
fractalfelinefilliigree - by Luke BrownDew : What is the function of art at festivals like Boom Festival?
Luke Brown :
I can speak of a personal relationship that i have with the art that is here and with reflections that i am receiving from a lot of people about the art that are interacting with that has been brought here. It reinforces on an atomic level my own mission with my art and the purpose behind it. This mission is replicating with accuracy these specific visionary states, these qualities of consciousness that we are accessing and interpreting with our skills. I am so grateful for the kinds of reflections that i have received from people about what they are experiencing with this art, really profound experiences which are so visionary. They may not have the skill set to manifest it in this particular form, but there is an infinite spectrum of forms that you can manifest those kinds of revelationary states that you might experience. It reinforces a role or task that I feel is assigned to me with my art; to map this hyperspacial dimension, convey it with accuracy and pay close attention to the architecture of these inner dimensions.
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Andrew Jones
SHANG - by Andrew JonesDew : What is the function of art at festivals like Boom Festival?
Andrew Jones :
I bring alot of my art to the festival circuit, and i find that my art is really about communication and communicating with people. I find that sharing it in this setting as opposed to a traditional gallery or on the internet or in a book where you are removed, I am able to immerse myself in authentic experiences of people and experience the reflections they have what i am doing. A lot of the times that i am working on a peace i might not really know its true intention or why i am making it but through the feedback of other people a lot of this becomes clear to me and that clarity is a very potent experience.