“If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like.”
– Hermes Trismegistus
Since the dawn of time humans have attempted to show what their eyes cannot see but their secret Self did. Cave drawings, ancient half human half animal figures, hieroglyphs-all are mere representations of what our ancestors thought the higher worlds are. We call it shamanic art, visionary art even psychedelic but no matter the word we chose to define this type of art, the idea is the same: to rise above the physical realm.
Although am not really impressed with digital art for the simple reason that it’s shallow and most of the digital artists tend to challenge only their technical skills, there is one artist that uses divine force for inspiration and also seems to lose himself during the creative process and he goes by the name of Trip Morris. The aim of his art is to show what lies beyond the boundary of the sight and using the images of dreams and trances he is presenting the umbilical points between our realm and the others.
If other artists can call their art universal, Trip goes beyond that and with the use of the occult and mysticism he creates a multiverse of realms where deities and alchemy merge together. His mission is to make the soul understandable to the viewers and if our culture as a whole teaches us perception via science, Trip’s art encourages the expansion of our inner sight.
“To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.” Beaux Arts Magazine. Trip’s art is visionary and sacred, it has mystic syllables, sacred writing-same type that early scribes and shamans received during their trances. He sees the artist as the shaman of the new world and these sacred archetypes are given a new form through the work of art and his focal point is only his devotional energy.
“Imagine having your body dismembered by demons or ancestral spirits; your bones cleaned, the flesh scraped off, the body fluids thrown away, and your eyes torn from their sockets, but set aside so that you may watch the entire procedure. It is only after such a purgative experience that shamans are said