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"The Wet Dream", Oil on Canvas, 30" x 24" -- the third painting in my thesis, "Jātaka Tales of a Budgie-Sattva", describes a narrative of the young man and his budgie companion exploring an aquatic lens of the unconscious mind. In the painting the youth is confronted by an "Aqua-Sattva" or teacher fish, who is vertically suspended, its eye at the level of the boy's 3rd-Eye, serving as a symbolic and mnemonic reminder of the higher conscious state. Jellyfish brush against the young man from behind like curious fingers while the parakeet over his right shoulder exhibits a psychedelic morphism of crustacean and fish as an exploration of the aquatic condition. Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO's) play over and mask themselves as the background sea floor.Related content
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The boy looks uncannily like my best friend who passed away about 6 years ago. He struggled with a variety of atypical psychological states that would bring him to the cusp of deific ecstasy, and at once hurtling back into a deep personal isolation, though he was most often surrounded by loving friends.
He frequently bent into a furious sort of rapture during which he would proselytize the simultaneous profound significance and meaningless of existence. His moods would quickly exhaust all but those who were closest to him. Ultimately, no one could keep up with his intensely polarized journeys. No one could follow him to that place at which he left this world.
I've never seen a work that's so miraculously captured this part of his essence that we all so deeply loved, and feared. We all struggled to lift him from those depths which seemed to suffocate him, to prevent him from diving back into that fathomless abyss yet again... but perhaps it were these beautiful, psycho-spiritual USO's which you've depicted here that always called him back.
Masterful. Thank you for creating this - I'll be sure to share it with those who miss him as I do. The Budgie-Sattva calls always from the beyond...
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I have been hearing this a bit more lately; that certain works remind others of themselves or people they know on a level that is striking or uncanny. Your friend's psychic condition is one that I am familiar with, not as much personally, as I swing from one state to the other more gradually, but in others I've also met--some of whom have very nearly ended me as well as themselves. I am sorry for your loss with this young man, it is difficult to not be able to follow someone into the abyss, particularly when you have a loving attachment and sense of familiarity. You can feel the emptiness where they tear away, and it touches deeply.
The mind is easily disturbed, for some more than others. And yes the USO/UFO aspect as well as the jelly fish(alien like projections) lull, entrance, disturb, and draw one into the shadows, their provocations make obsession easy.
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this is so amazing*-*
it's deffinitely worth a DD~
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Awwww thank you that means a lot! 
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Netliya so happy you enjoy this piece!
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Very interesting work, it makes me think and ask questions, well done!
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Very glad you like it, feels a bit mysterious to me as well given the setting. One of those pieces I might figure out in 10 years during an aha moment.
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Hi there!
Your beautiful work has been featured here [link]
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Outstanding! the textures of the jellyfish are amazing... everything is so alive...
mixed feelings around this painting!, in some way there is deep hollowness, but driven by such a beautiful serenity that illuminates and fulfills everything at the same timeless glance, that it rollercoasts you into a beautiful dream. Love how you adapted the bird into an undersea creature...
Great work Cody, love how you tear on and off those tiny dimensional veils with your brushes!.
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It really was a distinct process from a lot of my other work--that emptiness you feel I felt also, a very deep isolation, on the verge of being too cold. I think I explored this because it reminds me of all the psychological states I have been in during psychedelic voyages, when the sense of being swallowed up by the immensity of isolation or separateness filled every space. At the same time then the emptiness rids of all distractions and the symbolism and presence of the characters become more distinct.
I am also integrating academia into my process at large, which is a challenge because usually academia eats the artist but instead i'm eating it...but boy it is a mouthful, hard not to choke or gag!
Basically I'm creating a visual bridge where I introduce the unconscious psychological elements into figurative academic painting compositions and subjects.
Great to hear from you again, thanks always for your thoughtfulness.
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I like it! How big is it? And what is/are the medium/media? This work caught my eye, so I had to stop by, have a look, and ask. Hope you're well. Cheers
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The painting is 30" x 24" Oil on Canvas. Thanks for stopping by and inquiring.
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I love that look in his eye and the jellyfish were a really nice touch! The composition is also really well done.
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It is good to have your affirmations thank you very much.
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