Akashic Portrait (Part 1)

Collective Nouns, 2022 Faculty Show, Metro State University of Denver Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO

The Akashic Record is a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms. Encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the mental plane. Thoughts, words, intent, etc. generate their own unique frequency of vibration stored in the Record.

This piece is part of a larger installation composed of three smaller projects. I believe everything a person creates, their gestures, actions, the way they perform everyday tasks is a type of self-portrait. Defining moments imbued with their identity. In art some pieces are specifically designed to be self-referential, to communicate an introspective moment, most often one of self-realization. There are many reasons why a self-portrait manifests. In this instance it may be an accumulation of experiences that have or are leading to definitive change. I am the person that I am today because of shared experiences with everything and everyone I have ever encountered. The energy of these experiences vibrate outward and inward expanding externally and internally, a macro and micro dialogue. Looking at this project in relationship to the greater dimensional universe I see it as an Akashic Portrait.