From where do dreams, film, and art come in-breaking? They are energies that escape the void, bubbles of illumination come breathing up from the abyss.
They are daydreams and nightmares, both vital shards of archetypal change and reflection, the very vim and fiber of myth and culture – and they are not always brought into being by an author, artist, or singular musician – creativity is often a communal event, and many times it is even an anonymous event, especially when the art is political, speaking singing or screaming truth to power.
Other times it is as if the very environment itself is speaking through the artists who channel the essence of the street back up onto the walls unthinking, as if an afterthought. And our new walls are screens, black reflective scrying plastics you can touch, move, iconographic display replacing ritual, rote, bell and book. To mark up, to invade, and to sanctify our spaces as dreamers who seek to bring vision manifest to others, we must sync our very thoughts to the interplay of media and do so in ways that enable the artist, the author, and the visionary in spite of, in the face of, and because of the centralization of demographic data – what we once thought more generally of as ‘power; the man’ becomes now a side note. Remember, privacy for the mystic artist is often paramount to fully express the spiritual force with drives manifestation – the art may be and become public, but few visionary artists have the focus to create under too bright a spotlight.
Look into the work of Alex Ruiz and Max Pressman, or study the stylings of Rick Griffin to get a feel for this raw, primal stuff of creation. There’s a need for a folklore built between spaces – where art that embeds itself in the environment can be freed from it’s spatiality through mediation, and shared anonymously: something like the incredibly ambitious Castr project over on indiegogo. Castr seems like the perfect in-between space for those working in the shadows to perfect the vision and the voice they wish to project, and better yet it is a Tor for a new approach to distribution – a platform into higher things, like crowdsourcing an independent film.
Magic happens at the fringes, and weaves those fringes into a tapestry we continue to tell ourselves – the tapestry is made up of a great many voices and stories, many different threads. Start with the fringes, and weave your own work, publicly or not, into the reality you have been presented with – change your world, as my friends in Elete keep saying. And why not? It’s your world, after all.