Ronove

Sit down and close your eyes for a minute. I want you to imagine the one thing you'd want if you could make any wish come true, you are not allowed to limit yourself based on logic, conventions of morality, plausibility or any other thing excuse about how it isn't possible. Don't try to call something to mind, just let the life you want, the life you could never admit to wishing for with every part of your deepest self, the thing you don't even allow yourself to want wish and dream for, let that secret desire float to the surface. Be as aware as you can of what that reality is. When you're ready open your eyes. Now, what would you give to make that your living reality? Quit getting in your own way and make it happen, no matter the cost.

With this in mind, I've decided to get a tattoo today.  I'll post pictures of it later but its essentially an artistic reinterpretation of the image below, the sigil of Ronove.  Ronove is a goetic demon who according to occult sources, gains his power and notoriety in hell, by showing off how culturally influential he is.  Part of this is by taking select artists who devote themselves to summoning him, and ushering them to the very top epsilons of society, helping them find both fame and fortune within their medium. 

While I personally identify as a non-deistic animist and see Ronove as an archetype from the collective unconscious, the tattoo for me is a symbol.  It represents for me that I'm willing to cash it all in.  The idea being I'm permanently and indelibly marking myself, willing to condemn myself to any sort of infernal damnation in the theoretical afterlife, if it means that I will achieve the success I'm after.  I am willing to do ANYTHING to achieve my goals, and that's why I know that eventually I WILL achieve them.  

The moment you draw a line in the sand and say the minute I reach this line, I'm going to stop and quit and move in another direction, is the minute you set yourself up for failure.  I've chosen to be homeless before for the chance to better my career, when I was younger I really had that fire and commitment to make it, up until I started drawing lines in the sand.  No more lines, I will make it or I will keep trying till they drag me to hell.

For Christmas

So totally awesome! My parents were nice enough to pay for a year's subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud and Team Treehouse for an entire year.  Besides the fact that when I'm all done completing the program I should finally be able to get a job, I'll also finally be able to give making phone apps as art a try.  I'm super excited.

Well I'm attempting to continue my series from my bfa show.  Its been a rough start but I only started working on this piece today.  It'll take a bit to get the rust out but I think its coming back to me.

Strange Week

Well, I was fired from my job subbing at a catholic school for really asinine reasons (essentially people playing games), but it was likely all for the best.  I went to the Affordable Art Fair in Seattle and possibly found some gallery representation.  So right now I'm working on continuing my series from my bfa show and doing a piece for the Nightmare Before Christmas show.

I'm also going back to finishing my vision board.  I'd still really like to go to Yale for my MFA in Photography.

Old photo that I really love

Working on a Call for Art

So my friend Braden is curating a show at a store in Seattle called Other Worlds.  The show is supposed to inspired by Tim Burton with a focus on The Nightmare Before Christmas and other worlds at Christmas.  I'm going to do some scratchboard art for the show.  I'm picturing the ghost of a little boy alone in the woods holding a present, not far from his skeleton, where he got lost going to a christmas party.  Maybe something else, we'll see.