Xerado

XERADO - deep self

"Art: the creative processes employs intelligence, insight, and inspiration. Art harnesses complexity, divergent and tangential thinking, intuitive impetus to arrive at conceptual expressions based on existential foundations. Ultimately art is an expression of deep self."
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - origin of death

The Origin of Death (African mythology)
The Moon, it is said, sent once an Insect to Men, saying, "Go to Men, and tell them, 'As I die, and dying live, so you shall also die, and dying live.'"
The Insect started with the message, but while on his way was overtaken by the Hare, who asked: "On what errand are you on?"
The Insect answered: "I am sent by the Moon to Men, to tell them that as she dies, and dying lives, they also shall die, and dying live."
The Hare said, "You are an awkward runner, let me go" (to take the message). With these words he ran off, and when he reached Men, he said, "I am sent by the Moon to tell you, 'As I die, and dying perish, in the same manner you shall also die and come wholly to an end.' "
Then, the Hare returned to the Moon, and told her what he had said to Men.
The Moon reproached the Hare angrily, saying, "How dare you tell the people a thing which I have not said?"
With these words she took up a piece of wood, and struck him on the nose. Since that day the Hare's nose is slit.

— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - mysterious confluences

"Abstraction is surely the art of seeing what was once invisible, an art manifested of mysterious confluences in the conscious and unconscious mind as it roils into new permutations of interpretive imaginings; creations based on emotions and emotive actions and impulses."
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - penchants

"Humans have a certain penchant for conceptualization. The ancients transposed their myths upon stellar configurations. We tend to see dragons and elephants in the clouds. Most are mesmerized by the flames of a fire. These are #abstract perceptions. I take that propensity further."
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - fame is fickle

Fame is flighty, fortune is fickle. These are not the companions of great artists. It takes a level of perseverance in the face of all adversity, a willingness to starve, to be misunderstood, to wander alone and lonely. Expressing the essence of the human experience is not easy.
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - strange magic

Art is strange voodoo, especially when venturing into the unknown. Houses and heads, trees and torsos, there is comfort in the familiar. Abstraction is an adventure that often traverses great expanses of the decidedly mysterious. Apprehensions may appear.
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - breath deep

Inhaled air is about 20% oxygen. Exhaled air is about 15% oxygen. About 5% of breathed air is consumed in each breath. That air is converted to carbon dioxide. Human beings take in about 550 liters of pure oxygen per day. The planet gets art in output from what I breathe.
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - questioning

What does it mean to be creative? From whence does the impulse arise? History informs that the impulse to create images spans the course of human existence. Even cave dwellers had paintings on their walls. But the question of why remains as elusive as it has ever been.
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - life span

In the span of a lifetime, one encounters a vast array of stimuli, goading the conscious mind to dizzying heights of realization, providing elements for the visionary to construct conceptual cogitations defining existential parameters of meaning, despite logical dictates.
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - art is exciting

Art is exciting
कला रोमांचक है
芸術はエキサイティングです
예술은 흥미 진진합니다
Η τέχνη είναι συναρπαστική
Kunst er spændende
L'art est passionnant
Arte es emocionante
Kunst ist aufregend
L'arte è eccitante
Arti është emocionues
Arta este incitantă
Konst är spännande
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - art is universal

Art is a universal language
藝術是一種通用語言
El arte es un lenguaje universal
L'art est un langage universel
Kunst ist eine universelle Sprache
アートは世界共通の言語です
الفن هو لغة عالمية
Nghệ thuật là một ngôn ngữ phổ quát
Sanat evrensel bir dildir
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - favorite people

"My favorite people are the astute, curious souls, with open minds, who relish the nuanced nature of existential explorations; those more philosophical types filled with inquisitous tendencies who wonder about the purpose, meaning and intent of life and the art thereof."
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - perfectibility of man

"The perfectibility of man is absolutely indefinite, The progress of this perfectibility... has no other limit than the duration of the globe upon which nature has placed us.” - Marquis de Condorcet, Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind. 1793
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - scary venture

It can be scary to venture into the unknown. Familiar faces or laconic landscapes prove far more comforting to the placid person and flaccid mind. However, droll can take its toll. Mediocrity's like lukewarm porridge, drivel for the snivel. Adventurous art is exciting.
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - defining moment

artist, noun
art·ist | ˈär-tist
Definition of artist -
a : one who professes and practices an imaginative art
b : a person skilled in one of the fine arts
c : one who is adept at something
Art need not look like a traditional work of art, or even take any physical form at all.

— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - universal language

Art is a universal language
Искусство - это универсальный язык
कला एक सार्वभौमिक भाषा है।
Sanaa ni lugha ya ulimwengu wote
Konst är ett universellt språk
Sztuka jest językiem uniwersalnym
Seni adalah bahasa universal
Kunst er et universelt språk
예술은 보편적 인 언어입니다
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - the apex

Art is the apex of human endeavor,
the cognizant mind at its most clever,
an expression made to last forever.

— Xerado : Manifestations of my rampant imagination

XERADO - art of seeing

XERADO - universal language

Art is a universal language
Kunst er et universelt sprog
Arta este un limbaj universal
L'art és un llenguatge universal
A művészet univerzális nyelv
Мистецтво - це універсальна мова
Taide on universaali kieli
Արվեստը համընդհանուր լեզու է:
கலை உலகளாவிய மொழி.
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - art components

Art: the creative processes employs intelligence, insight, and inspiration. Art harnesses complexity, divergent and tangential thinking, intuitive impetus to arrive at conceptual expressions based on existential foundations.
Ultimately, art is an expression of deep self.
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - social credit systems

"China's 'social credit' system has already seen over 12 million people slapped with domestic travel bans as punishment for bad behavior - behavior that triggered the bans varied from obstructing footpaths with electric bikes to failing to pay fines." - The Telegraph, UK
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - Art is exciting

Art is exciting
L'art est passionnant
Arte es emocionante
Kunst ist aufregend
L'arte è eccitante
Arti është emocionues
芸術はエキサイティングです
Kunst er spændende
कला रोमांचक है
Konst är spännande
Η τέχνη είναι συναρπαστική
Arta este incitantă
예술은 흥미 진진합니다
— Xerado : mixed media

XERADO - food for thought

Farmers and artists are the most important of people. One provides sustenance for the body; the other, nourishment for the mind - food for thought.
Never think I left you starving.

XERADO : "Artistic Mystic, No.21" — mixed media

XERADO - paying the bill

It's with art that I pay for the air I breathe, the stars I dance beneath. Those gifts deserve thanks. Celebrating the ongoing magic that is our universe, this little speck that is me interprets what I am and will be with the talents granted from above.
#XERADO : "Visions of the Artistic Mystic, No.A09" — mixed media

XERADO - fame is flighty

XERADO - humanity needs its visionaries

Humanity needs its visionaries, those that see beyond droll, daily mundanity; the ones who explore and chart the depths of mind, the breadth of soul; the purveyors of dreams; illustrators of that which is ineffable, intangible. Without, life is merely shifting grays of lassitude.

#XERADO : "Visions of the Artistic Mystic, No.A03" — mixed media

XERADO - Ancient Gods in the Deep Blue Sea

Ancient Gods seem to have been relegated to the dark, deep six or rarefied climas. Does that mean they now exist only as myths, and in history books? Or, do they still have all the power they always did, and exercise it in ways that are called by names such as "climate change" or "global warming"?

Poseidon, or Neptune, remains undiminished by age or tenure.
But, unrecognized by so-called sophisticated scientists.
Behold! The Storm is upon us...
#XERADO : "Expressions of the Ineffable, No.X02a" — mixed media

XERADO - expressions of the ineffable

How does one express the ineffable? How does one describe that which defies language, that which is beyond words, that which would take the creation of a whole new language, in an entirety, to begin to convey something to another sentient being? How does one impart mysteries, conundrums, manifestations beyond the wakened eyes, visionary vicissitudes that defy mundane explanations?
#XERADO : "Expressions of the Ineffable, No.X01a" — mixed media

XERADO - Creation of Man

Title: “Creation of Man”
Artist: XERADO
Media: mixed media

Upon the banks of the Missouri River there once lived a snail, in great enjoyment, for he found plenty of food, and was never in want of anything that a snail could desire.

At length, however, disaster reached him. The waters of the river overflowed its banks, and, although the little creature clung to a log with all his strength, hoping thereby to remain safe upon the shore, the rising flood carried both him and the log away, and they floated helplessly many days, until the waters subsided, when the poor snail was left upon a strange shore that was covered with the river's slime, where, as the sun arose, the heat was so intense that he was irrecoverably fixed in the mud.

Oppressed with the heat and drought, and famishing for want of nourishment, in despair he resigned himself to his fate and prepared to die.

But suddenly new feelings arose, and a renewed vigor entered his frame. His shell burst open, his head gradually arose above the ground, his lower extremities assumed the character of feet and legs, arms extended from his sides, and their extremities divided into fingers, and thus, beneath the influence of the shining sun, he became a tall and very noble-looking man.

For a while he was stupefied with the change, he had no energy, no distinct thoughts, but by degrees his brain assumed its activity, and returning recollection induced him to travel back to his native shore. Naked and ignorant, and almost perishing with hunger, he walked along.

He saw beasts and birds enticing to the appetite; but, not knowing how to kill them, his hunger was left unappeased.

At last, he became so weak that he laid himself down upon the ground in despair, thinking that he must die. He had not been lying thus very long, when he heard a voice calling him by name, "Wasbashas, Wasbashas!"

He looked up, and before him beheld the Great Spirit sitting upon a white animal. And the eyes of the Spirit were like stars, the hair of his head shone like the sun.

Trembling from head to foot, Wasbashas bowed his head. He could not look upon him.

Again the voice spoke, in a mild tone, " Wasbashas, why are you terrified?"

"I tremble," replied Wasbashas," because I stand before Him who raised me from the ground. I am faint, I have eaten nothing since I was left a little shell upon the shore."

The Great Spirit then lifted up his hands, displaying in them a bow and arrows and telling Wasbashas to look at him, he put an arrow to the string of the bow, and sent it into the air, striking a beautiful bird, that dropped dead upon the ground. A deer then coming in sight, he placed another arrow to the string, and pierced it through and through.

"There," said the Great Spirit, "is your food, and these are your arms," handing him the bow and arrows.

The beneficent Being then instructed him how to remove the skin of the deer, and prepare it for a garment.

"You are naked," said he, "and must be clothed, for although it is now warm, the skies will change, and bring rains and snow and cold winds."

Having said this, he also imparted the gift of fire, and instructed him how to roast the flesh of the deer and bird. He then placed a collar of wampum around his neck.

"This," said he, "is your title of authority over all the beasts."

Having done this, the Great Spirit arose in the air and vanished from sight.

Wasbashas refreshed himself with the food, and afterwards pursued his way to his native land.

Having walked a long distance, he seated himself on the banks of a river, and meditated on what had transpired, when a large beaver arose up from the channel and addressed him.

"Who are you ?" said the beaver, "that comes here to disturb my ancient reign?"

"I am a man," he replied. "I was once a creeping shell, but who are you?"

"I am king of the nation of beavers," he was answered, "I lead my people up and down this stream. We are a busy people, and the river is my dominion."

"I must divide it with you," said Wasbashas, "the Great Spirit has placed me at the head of beasts and birds, fishes and fowls, and has provided me with the power of maintaining my rights," and then he exhibited the gifts of the Great Spirit, the bow and arrows and the wampum.

"Come, come," said the beaver in a modified tone, "I perceive we are brothers. Walk with me to my lodge, and refresh yourself after your journey."

So saying, he conducted Wasbashas, who had accepted the invitation with great alacrity, to a beautiful large village, where he was entertained in the chief's lodge, which was built in a cone shape, and, as the floor was covered with pine mats, it had a very delightful appearance to the eyes of Wasbashas.

After they had seated themselves, the chief bade his wife and daughter prepare for them the choicest food in their possession.

Meanwhile, beaver chief entertained his guest by informing him how they constructed their lodges, and described their manner of cutting down trees with their teeth, and felling them across streams so as to dam up the water, and also instructed him in the method of finishing the dams with leaves and clay.

With this wise conversation, the chief beguiled the time, and also gained the respect of Wasbashas. His wife and daughter now entered, bringing in fresh peeled poplar and willow and sassafras and elder-bark, which was the most choice food
known to them.

Of this Wasbashas made a semblance of tasting, while his entertainer devoured a large amount with great enjoyment.

The daughter of the chief now attracted the eyes of Wasbashas.

Her modest deportment and cleanly attire, her assiduous attention to the commands of her father, heightened very much her charms, which in the estimation of the guest were very great, and the longer Wasbashas gazed upon the maiden, the more deeply he was enamored, until at length he formed the resolution to seek her in marriage, upon which, with persuasive words, he spoke to the chief, begging him to allow his suit.

The chief gladly assented, and, as the daughter had formed a favorable opinion of the suitor, a marriage was consummated, but not without a feast, to which beavers and friendly animals were invited.

From this union of the snail and beaver the Osage tribe has its origin.

- Creation story of the Osages

XERADO - origins

Title: “Creation Myth”
Artist: XERADO
Media: mixed media
The eternal bird descended to the earth, which was then a vast globe of water. The bird's eyes were fire, his glance was lightning, and the motion of his wings filled the air with thunder. On touching the water, the earth arose from the deep. Thereupon appeared all kinds of animals. — Indian mythology

He clasps the crag with hooked hands ;
Close to the sun, in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure land he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls,
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
("The Eagle" — by Tennyson)

XERADO - Old Indian Myth, Tale of the attack of Thunder

Title: “Old Indian Myth, Tale of the attack of Thunder”
Artist: XERADO
Media: mixed media
The god of the forest had his residence in a tree upon a prominence. When he needed anything, he left his house and sat on a branch of a tree, which was as smooth as glass. He carried with him a crooked instrument, with which he shot his arrows. By his power of attraction he drew around him all the birds of the forest, who acted as guards and sentinels, and informed him when anything approached his residence, that he might prepare for defense. When one of the little gods of thunder came hurtling along, casting his arrow at the tree, in expectation of killing the forest god, the latter, having been informed of the approach by his flying sentinels, quickly retired beneath the tree. The god of thunder sent his arrow after him at the foot of the tree, but coming in contact with the water, it was lost.

XERADO - the artist is a fool

The artist is a fool.
Spilling forth a plague of visions, offering others opportunities to see things they never would otherwise, elevating the everyday, metamorphosing the mundane into the magnificent - all done on speculation, no promise of fame - or fortune.
Artist = an idiot.
XERADO : "Ribald Mania" — mixed media

XERADO - off the beaten path

XERADO: you have wandered off the beaten path and happened across an insight (no better way to describe it) into the mysterious artist, Xerado. His work and presence is hither and yon across social media. Xerado shows up in search engines.

Yet, the blog is a special format, open to the public (while some entities require membership), offering lager pictures and greater contextual opportunities.
So, here is insight, a bit of an overview - into the fascinating work of Xerado.

XERADO - the x-istential trail

Selfie on the x-istential trail - the x-man is a wanderer...

Artist: Xerado

Title: "Blue Icon"

Oil on hardboard - 48"w x 48"h

XERADO - urban shaman

Insight into the ways of an urban shaman...
Artist: Xerado
Title: "The Secret Shaman"
Acrylic on canvas - 24"w x 30"h

XERADO - give me freedom

Give me freedom (of expression), or give me death...
Artist: Xerado
Title: "The Libertine"
Acrylic on canvas - 24"w x 30"h

XERADO - The Joker is always Wild

The Joker is always Wild...
Artist: Xerado
Title: "The Harlequin's Final Riposte"
Acrylic on canvas - 24"w x 18"h

XERADO - mysterious ceremonies

Mysterious ceremonies transpire in the heart of the urban jungle…
Artist: XERADO
Title: "The Shaman's Cloak"
Acrylic on canvas - 36"w x 48"h

XERADO - Deep in the heart

Deep in the heart of the urban jungle,
strange doings are going on...
Artist: Xerado
Title: "The Exotic Dream of The Tribal Queen"
Acrylic on canvas - 30"w x 24"h

XERADO - Root Doctor

A "selfie" of the urban shaman...

Artist: Xerado

Title: "Root Doctor"
Acrylic on canvas - 18"w x 24"h

XERADO - Mandalas of the Ancients

Mandalas of the Ancients - A spiritual journey from Xerado

Disembarkation

Painted dancers greeted the bold arrival,
in a tent, at a site sacred to the locals,
a week every year, in an indigenous area,
allowed the cultural pleasures of tribal life,
despite it being in such a remote corner,
where revered spiritual figures glowed
on a warm and golden morning.
- Xerado

"Mandalas of the Ancients - A spiritual journey from Xerado"
All art, music, poetry, and video by the urban shaman, Xerado

XERADO - Alien Sensibilities

XERADO - Art for Alien Sensibitlities...

XERADO - Facing Reconstruction

Xerado: "Facing Reconstruction"

Eroded plaster - and is part of a sculpture that is now 30 years old...

XERADO - Surrealist adventure

Surrealist adventure leaves tangled sheets in wake of dream.

"After gunmen in camouflage stormed and seized more real world guidance culled from garden supplies they found that to truly succeed one has to be open to new experiences, new ideas, and new perspectives."

"Not long after, a solitary figure emerged, observing the turmoil from the outside, nonverbal clues allowed an expression beyond words, an inner dialogue beyond the mass spectrum.

"Upon the hill, ancient stone totems demarked a dreamline, seducing the favorite parts. Mundanity a rejected offal, lay upon the scrapheap of history."

XERADO - "Creative Contours": all art, music (composed and performed), video and film by, well, Xerado.

Visual poetry (Poetry in Motion) for times when words are empty and something else takes their place in the existential realm of expression, though there are words here but the video is too self-sufficient as complete.

XERADO - Postcard from the edge

XERADO: Postcard from the edge…

XERADO - After the Apocalypse

XERADO - Mental Origami

Early days of the developing case of mental origami. Much more to come...
Artist: Xerado
Title: "Early Stages of Mental Origami"
Media: wood, paint

XERADO - Advanced Mental Origami

Showing signs of advanced mental origami. Stimulating optical nerves...

Artist: Xerado

XERADO - Sweet Planes of Colored Cake

There are layers to festivities, the fun stacked like
sweet planes of colored cake.
Artist: Xerado
Title: "Layers of Festivities No.03"
Media: passion, perception, paint, pastel, pen, pencil, puter, perspiration, perseverance…

XERADO - Flashbacks of the future

Cogito, ergo sum - I think, therefore I am...
wandering forgotten places hinted in
distant memories,
flashbacks of the future
fade quickly.

Artist: XERADO
Title: "Hot Boxed"
Media: passion, perception, paint, pastel, pen, pencil, puter, perspiration, perseverance…