"Huxley" Original Oil and Acrylic Painting

"Huxley" Original Oil and Acrylic Painting48x60 inches, oil and acrylic on cradled board. Wired and ready to hang. About: Painted in the back of my dads large metal shop in Arkansas. I went to the local lumber yard and built this big 48x60 inch board at the shop. I wanted to take full advantage of the setting, where it didnt matter if I spilled buckets of paint on the floor and splashed it across the walls. I wanted to paint like a true maniac and thats what I did here with this abstract

thrust out into the cosmos

I was painting with my hands

Shiva is a personification of pure awareness

the vehicle of the soul

Like many of Moksha’s paintings

We were going to publish a book at one point that would have been a collaboration of words and images

*watermark with not appear on the print

but if feels right

This painting is the companion piece to an earlier painting titled “Forest Spirit”

liberation)

The feather is likely woodpecker and the handle is vine maple

Soon I started to see a mask of some kind emerge from the structure