“Enchanting Art PORTRAITINGS, ARTEFACTS and/or CONTEXTscapings” -art on commission

“Enchanting Art Portraitings (artefacts and people) and Landscapings”

An Enchanting Art Portrait is where I am given a photograph of a loved one, dead or alive, a couple or yourself, and over a few weeks I cogitate on and create a piece of art that incorporates the photograph of the loved one or yourself. The cogitation (lucid dreaming) would usually have been preceeded by a conversation about that person or yourself, especially in terms of their/your essence, less-seen personal attributes, a keep-sake, interests, pursuits, symbols and especially their notion of spirituality -not to mention favourite colours! etc., or; in terms of yourself, a previous or current life challenge with or without a resolve, or; how you would like life to look.

Although photographs can lack accuracy, these are examples of pieces of art that have been created from and with a photograph that has meaning for me:

Ken Moody, model in “Robert Mapplethorpe” (1988) A3, watercolour paper, 300gms)

Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh: derived from photograph of marble bust, Tu Hieu Pagoda, Hue, Viet Nam (A3, watercolour paper, 300gms)

Tibetan Monk, sponsored, Sera Jey Monastery, Mysore, India (A3, watercolour paper, 300gms)

Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist Teacher, Tu Hieu Pagoda, Hue, Viet Nam (A3, watercolour paper, 300gms)

A Homo-sensual Adult Child (A3, watercolour paper, 300gms)

Before You Were Born (a Max Gimblett Sumi ink workshop) (A3, watercolour paper, 300gms)

Transactions around fees: initially, while I am setting up this project, the fee will be by anomynous donation -anomynous in that the money will need to be placed in a blank sealed envelop and will not be opened until I have received several envelopes.
*As a consideration, I will tell you how many hours that the piece of art took to create.

An honouring of lucid dreaming and of a ‘divine’ in the broadest and most inclusive sense of the word
‘DREAMFire’/Michael Ocean
michael.ocean@iconz.co.nz
+64 (0)9 3729813
+64 (0)22 1361438

Background resources

Lucid dreams as a bridge between realities, September 2014, Chongtul Rinpoche TEDxFultonStreet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exjlR7izakg
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. By walking the line between the dream world and the waking world, we can train to access more of our own wisdom and our own consciousness. In this discussion, we learn about his mode of spirituality.

Chongtul Rinpoche is a reincarnated Tibetan lama who grew up in India and studied philosophy for over 20 years. He was the director of a Bön monastery in India and now resides in America and gives various courses in Tibetan philosophy. In the US he founded a Bon educational fund that provides education and training for students of Tibetan philosophy around the world as well as for over 400 Tibetan orphan children living in India and Nepal. Bön is the indigenous religion of Tibet.

Thomas Moore -“The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life.”
http://thomasmooresoul.com/meet-thomas/

“Endless Love”, Liu Ke (刘珂) and Chen Jun(陈军)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Hs3wavLgQ