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Friend of CoSM, Matyas Keleman, videographer and D.J. under the name Reality Engine, offered a beautiful set of coordinated music and visuals at the L.A. CoSM party. The day following the party, Matyas, playing in the ocean, was struck by a wave that crushed several vertebrae. Now teetering on the brink of life, we ask all to join us in sending healing prayers.
I hope that many Americans will listen to Obama's historic and inspiring call for global citizenship given in Berlin July 24. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAhb06Z8N1c
July 18th, CoSM sponsored the LA Visionary Art Party as Live Painting with DJs spinning returned to Club 740 in downtown Los Angeles. Painters Guy Aichison and Michele Wortman, Allyson and Alex Grey, Chet Zar, Saber, Jarrett DeMartino and Wendy Klein, Zachariah Gregory and Greg Kalamar each brought their unique style to enfuse the audience with a rare blend of creative juice. Thanks to Michele Marlo and Michele Wortman for sharing these beautiful photos.
Adam Jones, lead guitar for Tool, made a surprise appearance and discussed his history as an artist and as mastermind designing all the graphics and music videos for Tool. He and Alex screened Vicarious, the Tool Music Video they collaborated on.
Adam Jones
Tool loaned their awesome huge Sacred Mirror banners to the event, very cleverly hung in the venue by Brian James and Eli Morgan.
With our dear friends Michele Wortman and Guy Aichison after a powerful evening pumping creative energy. www.hyperspacestudios.com
Jarrett De Martino and Wendy Klein spiral out together in an extraordinary display of collaborative painting.
Wendy Klein and Jarrett De Martino
Allyson's mandala of Order evolved precisely and magnificently through the evening.
Tongues of Fire
Zachariah Gregory and his cosmic script painting. Zach's history as a grafitti writer and tattoo artist as well as visionary painter brought together in one artist the separate worlds being represented by the many artists working that evening.
Chet Zar spoke to the crowd about how he wanted to paint his demons, not caring whether anyone would like them or buy them. Turned out many smart people love them and want them. He also talked about his inventive creature work on HellBoy and collaborations with TOOL. Check out more of Chet's incredible art at www.chetzar.com
One of the great thrills of the evening was when Chet Zar's father James Zar appeared to support his son and the cause of Visionary Art. His own paintings are fantastic, surreal and mystic voyages into the divine imagination, below is one of his recent pieces. See more at zarsart.blogspot.com
When World's Collide, James Zar
At 4 am with Saber's live painting. Earlier, Saber spoke to a spellbound audience about his dangerous graffitti habit which has made him one of the most visionary and extraordinary writers to ever wield a roller or spray can. Check out this modern master at saberone.com
Greg Kalamar paints the painters, environment and audience, distilling the evening into a brilliantly colored work of art.
A G and Greg Kalamar
The next night Saturday July 19 at Canvas Gallery Guy and Michele opened their Scratch Art project which involved dozens of artists working on scratchboard to create some of the most intricate and beautiful art I've seen in a long time.
The visionary art power couple, Robert Venosa and Martina Hoffmann have had consecutive group exhibitions in MicroCoSM Gallery followed by illustrated Entheologues with Alex Grey where they talked about their artworks and luminous careers.
Robert Venosa's Slideshow
Alex Grey and Robert Venosa
Robert Venosa and Martina Hoffmann
Martina Hoffmann's Slideshow
Scott Olsen, author of "The Golden Section," Lance Harding, world expert on canons of human proportion, Dan Duddy "Zome" model-maker extraordinaire, Zachariah Gregory, and Alex Grey offered a rare download of sacred geometric and cosmic wisdom to lucky participants at CoSM this past weekend. Scott took us to the Platonic and Pythagorean roots of the divine ratio, the golden proportion, offering various ways to visualize and recognize PHI and phi, the Fibonacci sequence, and the Lucas numbers as they appear in Nature. Lance Harding shared his exhaustive study of Egyptian and Greek statuary, replicating and confirming Father Desiderius's canon of proportions. Alex was inspired by and has integrated Lance's brilliant research in the diagrams of Adam and Eve on the front doors of CoSM. Zachariah precisely and profoundly demonstrated the "squaring the circle" and supported the entire class. Alex shared the hidden meaning behind CoSM's Eye of Spirit, including his discovery of the golden section in the design.
Dan Duddy, Lance Harding, Alex Grey, Scott Olsen and Zachariah Gregory
Alex Grey reveals the mysteries of CoSM's Eye of Spirit
Zachariah Gregory squares the circle, bringing heaven to earth
Lance Harding unpacks the Desiderian canon of proportions for Adam
and Eve
Lance Harding and Scott Olsen share the philosophical and occult
roots of Sacred Geometry
Dan Duddy of Zome Tools demonstrates the pentagram and Golden Section
Buffy Sainte-Marie, folk singing activist for peace and Native American
rights, visited the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. Her well loved songs
of the late 60's include the still timely protest for peace,
"Universal Soldier."
A study conducted by Roland Griffiths and a team of medical experts at Johns Hopkins University, concluded that deeply meaningful Mystical experiences occur in a majority of people who use psilocybin in the proper set and setting. CNN is airing this story. Rare that this info gets such widespread attention. I believe this is scientifically based evidence for re-evaluation of current outlawing of magic mushrooms as a restriction of religious freedom. We salute the team of researchers at JHU for their success, and encourage everyone to look into how they can assist the next phase of their study with Cancer patients. See here.
www.csp.org/psilocybin
Allyson Grey, Roland Griffiths and Alex Grey
In June, Alex and Allyson painted together live at Harmony Festival in Santa Ana California. A beautiful mandala was created to surround the stage. Also at the event, Andrew Jones worked on stage on digital paintings. Ed Steckley brought his kiln and torch and worked with glass. A live video feed simulcast by psychedelic video artist technician, John Singer beautifully collaged images of Alex's art, the work of Jones and Steckley, and the Grey's painting on stage.
