Fine Artist at www.codyseekins.com
My Statement:
As I clear my conscious mind it peels away to reveal the vast unconscious dimensions of a greater being. Because this awareness produced in me a natural affinity for eastern thought I refer to my works as โJฤtaka Talesโ or simply โJฤtakasโ. I see the challenges, enigmas, sentiments, and ephemera of my experience as similar to the historical 3rd person Jฤtaka narratives of Gautama Buddha prior to his enlightenment. The term โBudgie-Sattvaโ within my oeuvre is an appropriation combining the word budgie (parrot) with โbodhisattvaโ, or one who is still on the path toward perfect awareness.
The traditional Jฤtaka tales are an interesting collection of Buddhist allegories which recognize the subjective journey toward enlightenment by illustrating the groundwork an individual goes through. That groundwork manifests as incarnations of personal identity, experience, and learning; a framework allowing me to build a body of paintings pulling from my exterior and interior life. Traditional Jฤtaka tales describe multiple past lives of the Gautama Buddha, where each identity is a separate incarnation. In my works, these multiple incarnations of self are contained within one life. In effect, I am narrating contemporary Jฤtaka tales from the 1st person perspective.
I am an inventor, author, blogger, Dream interpreter, researcher, teacher and most of all student of all things. I am a proud introvert, and often too edgy. I've been accused of being stupid, but never being closed minded; I always try to learn something new every day and like a true explorer I always share the most fascinating things I discover, everything I post will likely make you do a double-take if it doesn't just blow your mind, I focus my research on the subconscious mind to explore the deeper components to life.... click subscribe and let's go on an adventure together. I focus my posts on the most interesting and fascinating facts and misconceptions we have in society. My goal is to learn and share something new and interesting every day.