Happy Halloween!
Remember to vote or the spiders will getcha!
October 31, 2018
September 26, 2018
Voter Registration Day - Every Vote Counts
This was a scene I remembered from the Women's March - waiting on the light rail train to leave - with a little girl wearing a homemade pink hat, standing with her sign. Out the window there was a huge poster of Martin Luther King. The girl held her own homemade poster message - which all added up to a scene I had to draw.
September 1, 2018
Optimism is the antidote to anxiety...
Optimism is the antidote to anxiety... so why not smile?
I'm afraid most of my social media posting has migrated to Instagram - it's just a lot easier to post things on Instagram than Blogger, which takes about 6 times as much clicking.
https://www.instagram.com/johnnezartist/
So I've fallen a bit behind.
June 20, 2018
April 15, 2018
David Nez - a new scholarly book - Mysticism and Magic!
Congratulations to my older brother, David Nez for getting his scholarly book into print about Mysticism and Magic! I can't wait to see it - having read lots of the excerpts on the blog.
It's with a UK publisher and has taken years and years of work to finally realize. So good things come to they who wait. It's got lots of original artwork which was a natural for Dave, since he's also been making art for decades, with international shows. He was in the Venice Biennial last year... where he visited as part of the exhibit.
So it's great to be the author of a scholarly tome like that I imagine. Congratulations Dave!
https://treeofvisions.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-tree-of-visions-visionary-traditions-of-the-western-world-has-been-published/
The book is based on the thesis that shamanism forms the deepest stratum of human culture, myths and spiritual practices worldwide. It illustrates how ancient beliefs and practices are still alive, albeit in new forms, in contemporary magic, neopaganism and neoshamanism. It concludes with scientific research into altered states of consciousness experienced by shamans: stages of trance, hypnogogic imagery, out of body experiences, near-death experiences, apparitions, etc. Multiple excerpts and references from authorities in the fields of history, archaeology, ethnology, neuropsychology, psychology, comparative mythology and other fields support this work. The book contains a number of my original illustrations and has an extensive bibliography.
It's with a UK publisher and has taken years and years of work to finally realize. So good things come to they who wait. It's got lots of original artwork which was a natural for Dave, since he's also been making art for decades, with international shows. He was in the Venice Biennial last year... where he visited as part of the exhibit.
So it's great to be the author of a scholarly tome like that I imagine. Congratulations Dave!
https://treeofvisions.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-tree-of-visions-visionary-traditions-of-the-western-world-has-been-published/
The book is based on the thesis that shamanism forms the deepest stratum of human culture, myths and spiritual practices worldwide. It illustrates how ancient beliefs and practices are still alive, albeit in new forms, in contemporary magic, neopaganism and neoshamanism. It concludes with scientific research into altered states of consciousness experienced by shamans: stages of trance, hypnogogic imagery, out of body experiences, near-death experiences, apparitions, etc. Multiple excerpts and references from authorities in the fields of history, archaeology, ethnology, neuropsychology, psychology, comparative mythology and other fields support this work. The book contains a number of my original illustrations and has an extensive bibliography.
March 3, 2018
Epic new sculpture arrives at the SAM
Yesterday I visited the amazing new John Grade 'Middletree' sculpture hanging in the lobby of the Seattle Art Museum.
This sculpture is EPIC! It’s historic, scientific, ecological, recyclable, societal and just plain gorgeous and soul redeeming. Bravo Seattle...
It's made of millions of little bits of cedar glued together by volunteers and community groups, so it's societal.
This is so much better than those ugly Ford cars with lights that used to hang there. The only thing I don’t like is it will be recycled back to the woods in 3 years to decay... NO! Those ugly cars were hanging in the lobby for decades... I say keep it longer!
There are some amazing videos on youtube that show how it was built - John Grade - Middlefork Tree Sculpture.
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibitions/middlefork
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