kette
12-04-2002, 10:37 PM
If you're a fan of Alex Grey's at all you simply must see his work in person. Seeing them in books, although amazing, is NOTHING compared to seeing them in person.
My personal favorites have changed since I saw him at the Tibet House in NYC last weekend (going again on the 12th) and got to see everything larger than life. For one thing, Theologue has to span 15-20 feet wide by 6+ feet tall. you look at it, and you are in it, just like that.
And Cosmic Christ has to be seen up close and personal or you don't get all of the detail. every single little frame within the painting has another painting in it, in exquisite detail. amazing.
and the frames are kickass too. for instance, all of the frames around the Sacred Mirrors series are made by Alex and Allyson and they are at least as intricate as the paintings themselves. one side has the evolution of thought, the other has the biological and universal evolution. the thought side is encased in a snake eating itself in the shape of a double helix, the bio side is balls in a double helix. the top has man and woman, old to young, and mating. and a star "eye of god" and then different things by which we seek knoweldge radiating out from that. .... and so on...
my faves, Universal Mind Lattice, and Theologue, although Cosmic Christ is growing on me.
My personal favorites have changed since I saw him at the Tibet House in NYC last weekend (going again on the 12th) and got to see everything larger than life. For one thing, Theologue has to span 15-20 feet wide by 6+ feet tall. you look at it, and you are in it, just like that.
And Cosmic Christ has to be seen up close and personal or you don't get all of the detail. every single little frame within the painting has another painting in it, in exquisite detail. amazing.
and the frames are kickass too. for instance, all of the frames around the Sacred Mirrors series are made by Alex and Allyson and they are at least as intricate as the paintings themselves. one side has the evolution of thought, the other has the biological and universal evolution. the thought side is encased in a snake eating itself in the shape of a double helix, the bio side is balls in a double helix. the top has man and woman, old to young, and mating. and a star "eye of god" and then different things by which we seek knoweldge radiating out from that. .... and so on...
my faves, Universal Mind Lattice, and Theologue, although Cosmic Christ is growing on me.