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Multidimensional, atemporal, off grid, on island, in forest.

Morgan Maher
Instagram post 17946748501971729 Paid a visit this morning to a new piece by @mirkoreisser (DAIM). Considered the world's tallest mural — this is so big in so many ways. Back in the mid-late 90s me and the crew used to hunt DAIM pieces down in obscure graffiti zines, trading flix by mail, hunting on foot in Europe etc to catch a glimpse of this ultra fresh 3D style that tweaked, twisted and freaked the funk outta letters. Meanwhile, we painted trains in Calgary frieght yards, one of those yards is just a few blocks from this new piece. Thinking about those years....the world was very different, the internet was barely alive, everything far away in time and space and guys like DAIM were mysterious, anonymous, mystical legends somewhere "out there". At the time I would've never guessed DAIM would get up, like waaay way up, just down the street from where we we're painting trains. Crazy. So for me, this mural represents a full circle situation of many concentric circles & cycles of graffiti and street art. And, more significantly— this piece is exceptionally symbolic of how global and massive graffiti has become — and how interconnected, bridged and fluid time, space, art, and the world has become. Big big huge respect and thanks to DAIM and team for rockin it and @yycbump for making things happen. Slides 1-6: DAIM, Calgary mural, views 7: View of downtown Calgary and the building at 123 10th from the Inglewood train yards, circa 1998 8: EVN / Elevation crew whole car 1998, just cuz and to show&prove we'd go as big as we could too 🦣 🕊️ #graffitiart #streetart #wildstyle #yycbump #yycarts #streetartnews #muralsofinstagram #murals #timetravel
Instagram post 17910548843586170 Beach birthdays and Big swimmin' #summer 🌞
Instagram post 17995693069463066 Quick collage. "The Sun" It's been so grey and so rainy here for so long I'm not even sure what the sun looks like anymore 🟡 ...I think this is close 😶 . . . #painting #collage #neon #fluorescent #geometricabstraction
Instagram post 17921996495464294 Allesandro Von Thurstonhauer; well known tennis champion, suspected Colombian drug lord, seen here preparing for a party in the mid 1980s at the all inclusive, highly condusive, extremely conductive "crazy town" clubhouse known colloquially as "The Barn" to catch the all-access interplanetary multi legendary newest wave of the platinum elusive, top ten reclusive, bodacious sensatious, zubaz and billabong, hit song all night long you know the song, the one and the only — ⚡⚡⚡⚡Coolatron! 🛸📡☄️🥳✨ . . . . #Coolatron #partytime #80s #livemusic #AlternateRealityNavigationAssociation
Instagram post 18136030168251878 A peek at a #wip that got greygooed/mistaked sorta accidentally painted over. How it goes sometimes 🛸 . . . . #painting #abstractart #graffuturism #wildstyle #ephemeral
Instagram post 17937134900026965 Spring kickin' winter . . . #forestlife #getoutside #inthewoods #wetlands #spring
Instagram post 17952157198771995 From the ongoing, everlasting, evergreen series I started in 2007— "Speaking in Leaves". This from 2019 I think. . . . #ayahuasca #sapo #kambo #visionaryart #psychedelicart #ayahuascaart #ayahuascavisions #painting #drawing #digitalart #plantmedicine #plantspirits #SpeakingInLeaves
Instagram post 18009625036398142 Congratulations! You did it! The Alternate Reality Navigation Association welcomes you back! With open arms and magic charms. VR Veal Parm. All fun. No harm. Warm mmm, just right. When The Clock! Struck! MIDI Niiight! Everything was sequenced. Tight. Quantii zation Zoological permutation. Quite the sensation. A bumblebee fumble landing, standing looks around and, with zero trepidation says: 'scuse me there, you there! 'Ave you any relation with that ubiq crustacean? ' One writn' papers on feline computations, loose ends, old friendssszand, various incantations ? as they say in such circles that circle the center. 5p to Enter! Spring kickin' winter. Mute on the tele— Path lookin' good. . . . #AlternateRealityNavigationAssociation #forestlife #forestspirita #offgridlife #inthewoods #offthebeatenpath #psychedelic #magical #supernatural #plantmedicine #storytelling
Instagram post 18205741336142652 Working the night shift #wip . . . #painting #abstract
Instagram post 17931051328849463 Went deep, old and back in time, looking for Reishi. Found this old, old elder. Hanging on, going long. Admired and hung out a bit, chatted, smoked. "Not gonna pick you" I said "Keep on going". "Thanks! Now, look over to my side here" And there— a Reishi! . . . #forestlife #forestspirits #mushrooms #mushroomhunter #fantasticfungi #reishi #artistconk #ancientreishi #kofukitake
Instagram post 17944371511576996 Hear ye, hear ye Let it hereby be known hitherto and henceforth aho! aha! indeed, yes The Mermaid Queen Laura Solar Nova and her intrepid Dragon—The Great and Magnificent Morgonzolini! are truly, unmistakably arriving, yes, for Halloween, prefaced, post haste, summarized and footnoted, pencil it in, rsvp si vous plait, yay! WTF, quest que cest? Si. So It's Once, or twice, or thrice, in lifetime—along comes the right time these time travelers travel in on The Wylde Wooden ship. Reviews unequivocally exponentially said: "A Trip!" Essentially Mind Bending! Magic Tricks! Alternate Realities! Dream Worlds! Profundity! Nonsense! Riddles! Every & All Kindza Crazy Krazee Candy Await... YOU! So Book your spot, secure your seat, standing room only, testified, verified, fact checked and notarized. As always Email is spotty, text is tenacious, pigeons unreliable, yelling is forbidden. Old School Telepathy seems to get through, due, it is surmised, to numinous Alignments of Auspicious Nature. Brought to you in part by The Alternate Reality Navigation Association and the Lasqueti Island Imaginarium Aquarium Herbarium Solarium. Some Conditions Apply. Winners subject to Skill Testing Questions of Utmost Conundrum. All Rights Reserved. All Wrongs Reversed. Goodnight, good luck, and good day to you. Godspeed. 🎃 👻 🤡 👹 👺 ⚡ #halloween #AlternateRealityNavigationAssociation
Instagram post 18205777306110039 Remixed an old one🐍🔺🔻🔺 . . . . #visionaryart #psychedelicart #ayahuasca #painting #plantspirits #ayahuascavisions #fluorescent #geometricart #geometricabstraction
Instagram post 18096847402279467 Ol' Uncle McLucky, singin' 'is solemn song, soft and stoic, clear and strong, to the Tobacco as it dries and cures and carries on its way to becoming Mapacho. 🍃🌬️💨 . . . #plantmedicine #sacredplants #powerplants #herbalism #mapacho #tobacco #ayahuasca #leprechaun
Instagram post 17901886448200889 Definitely something going on out there. 🌞☄️🕊️ 🎶 Birds flying high You know how I feel Sun in the sky You know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by You know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life For me And I'm feeling good #skywatching #sundog #cloudscape #cloudbirds #equinox #ninasimone
Instagram post 17921578579798313 A lil' table setting sampling of the late summer situation. #justataste #harvestmoon #offgrid #gardenlove
Instagram post 17940966952604799 Stackin' chips $FRWD 🔥❄️📈⬆️+1000 #bouthalfwaythru #lotsmoretogo #AnalogHeat #Fuerte #Firewood #offgridlife 💪🏼🔥👊🏼
Instagram post 17919372817787122 Tobacco, Eagle, and a Leprechaun. #Always #TodosSeguros
Instagram post 17893473308209282 I so very much hesitate to get into covid discussions as they can be so very divisive and the risk of one's mind & spirit being infected with conflict & division, is high. A serious, dangerous side effect of it all. That said, I'll offer this, a mantra or personal guidance I've settled on: "I'm not afraid of the virus, I'm not afraid of the vaccine, I'm not afraid of the government and I'm not afraid of the corporations." Try it out. This is to encourage empowerment, unity, wholeness. Personally and collectively. In saying this, I am also one to keep my health —body, mind, spirit— strong. With ongoing maintenance and upgrades, as a practice. I have with me what I consider to be the strongest, most intelligent plant and natural medicines. That's what works for me. I also got the vaccination because, I'm not afraid of it. Also in solidarity with my family, for example, my dad lives in long term care where there was 23 covid deaths in a matter of weeks. What am I gonna do? Tell him it's all baloney? Explain to him the math of it all? Talk about rabbits? Lie? No. I'd rather just get the vaccine and go visit him in ease, take him out for lunch, ya know. Easy. Further, any potential side effects of the vaccine, I know I can deal with, with my plants. Haven't had side effects btw, in fact I felt quite good. I'm not trying to convince or conflict anyone. What works for one person might not fit another. I do know there's level-up ways above & beyond all this crazy town the world seems to live in these days. It seems to me *everyone* has either been *infected* or *affected* by the pandemic in numerous different ways, to body, mind, spirit. It also seems a time where, you can't really be on the fence and you can't really take sides, or you risk becoming infected with conflict & division. It's a time where it's not particularly useful to be: either/or, yes/no A time where it's helpful to be, or at least consider: both/and And, it's an excellent time to plant, water, tend and share the diverse community gardens of body, mind and spirit. And help your world and the world of others, grow & flourish in all the different colors & flavors. In unity & health. Peace
Instagram post 17898344915220172 Chocolate blackberry peach buttercream flower cake!!!???!!??! ?😳 Coming from the astoundingly inspiring Violet of @basalt.bakery.and.homestead and my lovely love @laurasolarnova #wow 🙏
Instagram post 17860141412606781 It's taken me five years living on the West Coast to find suitable Reishi to pluck and make that good good medicine. Then, yesterday walking home from the beach and bingo! A bunch of big beauties appeared, ready for take off! Must be my birthday or sumthin' 😀🥳😀 ✨🍄✨ . . . . #reishi #mushroomlove #mushroomhunters #fantasticfungi #polypores #ganoderma #foraging #forestlife #forestspirits #wildfoodlove #herbalism #offgridlife
Instagram post 18006719776340867 Poco Mapacho A small collection of dozen or so Tobacco plants growing. Two different types of Nicotiana Rustica — one from seeds from @janrostlinka and the wonderful folks at Feather Crown, and the other, from seeds I kept from previous years growing Tobacco, I believe it was the so-called/legendary 1000 Year Tobacco. These 12 plants are currently growing in just little 1 gallon pots. Pretty good for such a small pot. They're growing in magical soil designed & built by @laurasolarnova so that's probably the main reason they're so happy. . . . #tobacco #mapacho #ayahuasca #sapo #kambo #gardens
Instagram post 18140387005202082 Well, it's not all bad out there. 🕊️
Instagram post 17905052683999442 Some newness/going way back Started in the winter, finished in the heatwave. Connecting into some styles from 10-15-20 years ago... Mirror/Threshold 002 Acrylic on wood 24" x 36" #painting #geometricabstraction #wildstyle
Instagram post 17908597369920787 Hiding from the heatwave. . . . #heatwave #bcheatwave #melting #pnwheatwave2021 #offgridlife #firewood
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