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'Equanimity' Acrylic on canvas 44x66 inches 2016-2019 I wanted to create a painting that would radiate peace. When I first came to Bali in 2016 I started this painting. I participated in a medicine ceremony

Seeing as we just passed the two major psychedelic holidays of the year, (Bicycle Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the world’s first ever acid trip on April 19th, and 4/20 on the following day,

In 2013 I published an article on SolPurpose, the now defunct visionary culture web magazine, titled Getting Off the Festival Wagon — The Ups and Downs of Festival Culture. In this article I wrote, “The

A few days ago I had the opportunity to participate in my first hook suspension. It was a powerful initiatory experience and rite of passage. It was a very personal and vulnerable experience, I think for

As a tattoo artist myself, I am the first to admit that there is a lot of tattoo work in the world that is incredible shitty. That said there are some artists who's unique visions and remarkable skills

Gather round my friends. I want to tell you a secret. The secret is that life is testing you. Yes, you. You are being tested. Constantly. The universe is sneaky. You are a participant in the peculiar game

Hi Steemit, I wanted to share my newest painting with you. It is titled Arcana de la Medicina. It is about 18x24 inches and is acrylic on canvas. I started this painting in Iquitos, Peru last March at

Hi Guys, I wasn't sure where to post this as I didn't see a help section anywhere. But on saturday I transferred some steem dollars out of my wallet here to Bittrex. I thought that what I was transferring

Hi Steemit, I've been working on my first ever tattoo on and off now for the last two months, on my own right thigh. I think it's finally finished. All in all I think I spent about 40 hours on this. What

I created this design for a conference coming up in Telum, Mexico in early February bridging the gap between psychedelic research and cryptocurrencies. I present to you the Tripcoin! The mycelium of the

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out

The Graveyard for Young Love After the euphoria, Always the crash. And would I do it again? Oh but I will. Let's start again. Let's spin our dreams together, Let's ride the waves of joyous delusion, Til

I recently had a chance to interview one of my favorite contemporary painters, Reinier Gamboa. Reinier’s work is one that defies classification, possessing elements of surrealism, illustration, expressionism,

Sitting now in front of computer screen, calmly proceed to levitate from your seat, through the ceiling, and begin to fly towards whatever destination you may wish... because you are dreaming. That is

What do you think? Do you think its a more valuable investment to hold onto SBD and wait for the value to inevitably rise? Or do you think its better to use them to purchase Bitcoins with asap?

When one embarks upon the path of becoming an artist, they know that they weigh the difficulties of supporting themselves against the passion for making art. To artists this isn’t a question even worth

This is a painting and accompanying poem I made in 2013 inspired by a powerful ceremony with the Amazonian plant medicine Ayahuasca. In the starlit sanctum, When silence came to kiss our faces, And the

Of all of the contemporary realist painters, Martin Wittfooth stands out as a shining example of the marriage of psyche and techne. His work is beautifully executed with the patience and subtlety of the

This is one of my paintings, titled Black Madonna. The artwork was made as a digital painting with Corel Painter and a Wacom Tablet. About the artwork: There is a lot to say about the archetype of the

This is a trip report I wrote after experiencing Android Jones' Microdose Virtual Reality program at the MAPS Psychedelic Science Conference in Oakland. I entered the busy Marriott convention hall marketplace