Countless lifetimes after the art we last explored found its inspiration, we’re happy to see new art, via a modern medium, similarly inspired.
Muralist Eric Skotnes, who paints with the intercession of aerosol accelerant, created this tableau and the timelapse, below, of its genesis, to dissertate aesthetically on the concept of Awakenings.
It’s a worthy subject, tackled admirably. Buddhahood, after all, is simply the state of being awake. And it surely must be that transitional phase, the awakening itself, in which the (r)evolution feels most acute.
May we all awake. And may all art wake us, or at least shake us.
