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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Aquamarine and Orange Multi-faced Head























(Click to see it larger on flickr)

This is a digital painting (using photoshop) of the multi-face'd character I have been working with for a while now. It's inspired by Tibetan Buddhist art. In particular, this art form's multi-limbed and multi-headed characters that express a "spiritual" or "enlightened" state.  I am interested in the fact that Tibetan art uses a vocabulary of "multiples" to get at this concept, and with this series, I am endeavoring to adapt this concept of multiple features to express a spiritual state in my own way.

My brief 1 AM example of what I mean by "spiritual state": a blissful altered state of consciousness in which selfhood seems to transcend your familiar self. Unfamiliar abilities, or knowledge might be encountered. 

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-Sam

Sam Graham is a los angeles artist, photographer, animator, writer, and musician

3 comments:

  1. hey,
    love the colors, love the image. how did you do it?

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  2. dude, sam. i love this image! you should post the medium though................

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