A Place Outside The Race
Price: $188,000
Materials: Colored pencil on paper
Dimensions: 9" x 12"
Created: 2022
The Story: This was drawn in Arizona in 2022. After integrating my awakening experiences I finally got myself a car again for the first time since I was seventeen. My first test run on a road trip was driving up to the Omega Center in Rhinebeck, New York for a retreat. I folded the back seats of my Saab wagon down and slept on my yoga mat in Woodstock. In high school my friends and I would all drive out to Montauk for the 4th of July and sleep drunk in our cars. This was a far healthier and more enjoyable version of that.
After that trip I was immediately hooked and started investigating popup rooftop campers. I got one with a clear top called a Stargazer. It was fucking awesome and once I got a taste of that freedom with my next road trip I never wanted to return to regular life again.
As I was facing an existential crisis with my career in the midst of that realization I drew this image. After having been an editor for so long I could look at the life and career of someone like Hank Corwin from afar and see where mine was heading. It had already taken so much to establish myself as a successful independent editor with autonomy; including competing with other people and trying to out do them. Trying to make each project even better than the next. After I finally finished my first feature film the idea of trying to compete with or one up people like Hank in the world of features seemed completely and utterly exhausting. And for what? I want out, like... now. I truly have nothing to prove and I don't even watch movies anymore. I just want to live my life and be happy.
In a recent blog post I talk a bit about how much of the spiritual work I do is transmutation. Hank's editing company is called Lost Planet. If you look at their website the intention to warp and distort light is pretty clear. I've never met him or worked at his company but I used to be one of those people too.
That's why my LLC is called Planet Found. It's a way for me to contribute to transmuting that energy into something positive and use my skills to emit light for the benefit of others.
The only way I've found "out of the race" is through surrender. Surrender to the experiences that I've had. Surrender to what I know about the non-dual and multidimensional nature of reality because of them. Surrender to God and higher forms of intelligence to guide, protect, and take care of me.
The story about The Hare & The Tortoise? It's a projection of your consciousness. You are both the tortoise and the hare. The moment you start truly understanding that is when you can start dipping out of the rat race.
It's a process though. It's like being a baby horse that was born with a jockey on your back and blinders on your face. Once you grow up and split the seams on those perceptual shackles and kick that jockey to the mud your body and mind have been programmed and traumatized for so long that they keep wanting to run in circles. Breaking that pattern can take time and be quite painful.
I really love this drawing and it's incredibly meaningful to me. I also experienced a very profound synchronicity with it. I visited the Kauai Animal Education Farm in Hawaii about a year later and after a full tour I found myself sitting in a garden with an old tortoise walking by my feet. Without any prompt the owner of the farm brought over a white rabbit and placed it in my lap. It took a few moments for the memory of the drawing to register and when it did I started laughing hysterically.
The universe is capable of aligning planets with the utmost precision on the daily. You think us humans are so special that we're exempt?
Notes: All of the artwork I'm offering for sale is incredibly meaningful to me. Prices are based on what I would actually consider trading it for. In this case it would be roughly what I grossed in the best financial year of my editing business. I am doing the planet a great service by no longer using my skills to elevate corporate interests. I could still command a top tier day rate but I'd much rather spend my days doing things that benefit humanity in ways that most might not understand yet. I always find a way but having that cashflow again would help me do what I need to do in a more comfortable and frictionless way.
Please know the condition of all of the artwork I'm offering is also imperfect. They have travelled around the world with me. What you see pictured is their current day actual condition but there may be some imperfections or weathering that cannot be perceived through the photos. I think it adds to their character and significance but I want to be transparent about that.
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Mahalo.