Flying White (Praying Velociraptor + Heart Container)

🦖 20"x30" - acrylic paint pens on gallery-wrapped canvas. 🦖 Started while painting The Santa Fe Brewing Company for Papadosio, Dirtwire, and Cloudchord, then carried to Denver to live paint at the Psychedelic Science Conference as part of Tribe 13 Gallery, and then completed in the New Mexico desert to an evening of diverse and magical vinyl listening. See the entire biography of this painting as a photo album! 🦖 Named after the style of Buddhist calligraphy in which the calligrapher uses a relatively dry brush fast enough to leave swaths of empty space in each stroke — a testament to incompleteness, emptiness, and gesture. According to Beyond-Calligraphy.com, flying white is "Light, poetic in its mobility, graceful, and delicate. It is quite often combined with paintings interwoven into the text, such as dragons, birds, or other motifs." Similarly, this painting is a tribute to the nonduality of endings and beginnings, the secular and the sacred, science and magic, knowledge and myst