Month: October 2013
The CABAL Project: Featured Artists of the Month
We owe a huge thank you to Andrew for his generous submission of work to the Project, We are in such awe of his work that we have spread the pieces over two post so that we were able to show you the full range of his work and practices.
“I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness.” -Alan Moore
I divine order from chaos, crossing the thresholds of science, art, and magic, configuring constellations of languages and the symbols that build them to create new universes. Complex, magical grid systems and ancient sigils are ever-present; archaic computers, lost technologies. On top of those ornate frameworks, I introduce unpredictable elements into my work, oozing drips and stains and map them into new signs for communicating and visualizations of alternate realities. I am pushing the boundaries of what drawing is and the space that can be defined within a page. I create new dimensions within unfamiliar planes and chart interstellar spaces.
Painted on cotton
Bengal School
Date19thC (late)
Kali yantra.
At the centre Kali is shown four-armed seated on a demonic figure beneath which lie Siva and a burning corpse. The five sides of the yantra are in this case made up of female figures. The yantra is set within a lotus.
“The Kabbalistic Tree of Life has a dark side, the Tree of Qliphoth, which is also known as the Tree of Death.
(Hebrew קליפות) Also kliffoth, klippot or kellipot. “The World of Shells.” From קליפה, meaning “peel, shell, rind (cheese), skin, cortex, crust, hull, husk.”In Kabbalah, the term klipoth refers to the inferior worlds, the inferno, hell, or abyss. The Klipoth is so named because the souls who descend into the inferior worlds descend without the connection to their own inner divinity, therefore they are “empty shells.”
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
— Philip K. Dick
“Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.”
~ Eckhart Tolle