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[Sir Squid Diddimus]

 

[LMNO]

It's a good piece of art.


I won't comment on the rest.

[Triple Zero]

heh cool, it's a parable with a parabola :-D

what else, there's Pi written down in WAY more digits than is needed to calculate the circumference of the current estimate of the size of the universe down to the precision of one proton (for which you need just 51 decimals).

a molecule, first guess was LSD, which it's not. second guess is DMT, which it is

a maze with a lock

somebody reaching for the eye in the pyramid in the pentagon

a male/female sign, but wait--they're the planets, jupiter, mars, earth+moon, venus, mercury. so the yellow veil thing are in fact solar rays, and the maze with a lock is in the sun? staring at the sun?

does the parabola perhaps stand for gravity? the person is reaching for the sun, but he/she can't reach it because she/he is at the bottom of the gravity well?

and next to the feathers are some dark blobs, does this perhaps refer to the classroom physics experiment of both a feather and a lead bullet falling at the same speed in the vacuum?

ah! and now i recognize the dark shapes, they're wings, the black blobs are melting wax, these are Icarus's wings.

Icarus is trying to reach for the sun but he can't get there because of gravity. between Icarus and the sun is the eye-pyramid-pentagon icon, representing rational grey thought, the Black Iron Prison.
next to it is the DMT molecule, possibly representing that in your dreams/trip/psychedelic reality, you CAN fly, and go wherever you like?

maybe Pi is referring to the semi-circular orbits of the planets, but otoh might just be Kaienne's fixation with irrational mathematical constants of nature. he/she might enjoy reading about Feigenbaum's constant, a lesser-known irrational constant that also seems to just pop up out of nowhere, mostly in fractal imagery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feigenbaum_constant

well, that's about all the symbology i can decode from this image. please tell me whether i'm doing a good job?

[East Coast Hustle]

wow.

[B_M_W]

You got almost everything Zero. Pi is a reference to the movie of the same name.

I can just copypasta Kai'enne's own interpretation, I guess.

Technical details: You can see every feather in his wings. In his gripping hand, if you look closely enough you can see his fingers.

Okay. This piece is a depiction of the story of Icarus. In Greek mythology, there were a son and father; Icarus and Daedalus. Daedalus was an inventor and an architect, and a renouned one at that. One day he recieved a commission from King Minos of Crete to build the world's most inescapable labyrinth to imprison the king's furfag son, the Minotaur. He accepts the commission and builds the labyrinth, only to be told at the end of it that it was imperitive that no one ever know how to get out; and having built the thing, that was knowledge that he and Icarus had. So, Minos had them imprisoned in the very higest room of a tall tower. They were cared for and were treated luxuriously, but they were still prisoners. One day, Daedalus, being the genius inventor that he was, realized that he could build wings out of the feathers from pillows and candle wax. After enough time to collect the materials to do so, he shaped them and affixed them to the backs of himself and his son. They flew out the tower window and far away to safety.
Icarus took with great amourousness to his newfound abilities of flight, and skirted the skies as well as any bird. He would fly far into the great blue void, much to the chagrin of his more conservative father, who often warned him of the perils of such carelessness. Icarus didn't care.
It wasn't long before the flights of mortals began to bore Icarus, though. Shit got old quick. One day he decided that he was going to fly up farther than he had ever flown, catching up with the Chariot of Apollo; that is, the sun. He flew and flew and flew, but far into his flight was distressed to encounter a factor he hadn't considered; the heat from the sun was beginning to melt the wax that held his wings together. He was determined, though, and kept going. Before long, too much of the wax had melted away. His wings disintegrated and he fell to his death.

Onto the picture itself, first we'll identify the symbols. There's a labyrinth in the sun that ends in a lock. The All-Seeing Eye is up there. There's some strange molecule to the left, a white parabola (which was made by drawing around where this wanted the parabola to be; none of this one's pieces have any whiteout in them), a key in his gripping hand (did you catch that?), the number Pi written down the top and right borders, and some circles and a hexagon off to the left.

The key in his hand represents the key to enlightenment. Wings in this piece represent the bodymind. He has the key (i.e. the knowledge) to Godliness (i.e. enlightenment), but he cannot pass the barrier because his wings are only made of wax; they are not solid enough to withstand the trials of such a venture.
His outstretched hand is placed at the exact zenith of the parabola, denoting that this image depicts him in the exact moment of zero gravity right before he fell to his death. Pure bodiless consciousness, depicted by the All-Seeing eye, is just out of his reach.
The labyrinth in the drawing is not only reminiscient of the labyrinth of Crete, but also the walking labyrinths used by various religions (Tibetian Buddhism especially). Note that there is a tiny entryway at the top-middle of the piece; following the path of meditation takes significantly longer to get to the lock, and it is easy to lose track, but there are no obstacles in one's way.

The molecule to the right is Dimethyltryptamine; DMT. Anyone who knows this has probably heard it rant and rave about this chemical, so this won't be going into it in depth here. If you don't know what it is, there's a relatively good primer at http://www.rickstrassman.com . The relevant information pertaining to DMT in this instance is from a test run by Terrence McKenna:
"I took this stuff to Tibetans, to the Amazon. I gave it to Tibetans, they said "this is the lesser lights, the lesser lights of the Bardo. You cannot go further into the Bardo and return. This takes you as far as you can go."
(In Tibetian Buddhism, the Bardo is the afterlife, 'a place full of lights'. When one achieves enlightenment they are said to have seen the lower lights of Bardo.)
There's also a small reference to the movie Pi, denoted by the number across the top and side, the sun, and DMT. In the movie, the main character suffers from these intense headaches. Every headache sequence in the movie ends with him looking at a sudden bright light and passing out; this believe the sun is usually the light he sees. This only saw the movie once. He then passes out, experiences a short clip of some really weird and inexplicable shit, and wakes up somewhere having no other recollection of the experience.
When you smoke DMT, there's a sharp comeup where one approaches an intense bright light. The bright light is broken through, followed by approximately ten minutes of hallucinations so awe-inspiring and profound that one often forgets to breathe. After said ten minutes one comes down and back to reality. Should one be partaking of this chemical for any specific spiritual purpose, it's important to write down everything that was imparted; within a half an hour, most to all of it will have been forgotten.
One found the parallels between it's experiences and the main character's to be significant.

Off to the side. there are 6 spheres and a hexagon. They're designed to simultaneously be a sort of lens flare effect as well as the six primary planets used in astrology. Venus, Mars, and Saturn are marked by their respective symbols; Earth by fern-ish spiral patterns, denoting life. Jupiter was drawn to resemble the planet itself, and has a diametre/radius mark (the line and little square) to link it and the value Pi together as mathematical representations (the circumferance of a circle is 2*pi*r). Saturn is shaped like a hexagon as an easter-egg reference to the hexagonal storm that was found on it's north pole.
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17816192/)

And lastly, the title of the piece is a reference to a pairing of songs written by Tool, tracks 6 and 7 on their album Laturalus: Parabol/Parabola. The reference is marked by the parabola in the piece itself being coupled with the title; Parable. The relevant lyrics to Parabol/Parabola are as follows:

Parabol:
"We barely remember what came before this precious moment,
Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside...
This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion."

Parabola:
"This holy reality, in this holy experience. choosing to be here in...
This body. this body holding me. be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion...
Of what it means to be alive."
and
"This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. remember. we are eternal.
All this pain is an illusion."

Oh yeah. And the story of Icarus is a Parable.

Bottom Line: You can't force enlightenment.

[König Bonifaz]

Do you know how much time Kai'enne spends planning Kai'enne's pieces?

[Triple Zero]

either a 10 minute DMT trip, or a couple of weeks, i guess

[B_M_W]

Do you know how much time Kai'enne spends planning Kai'enne's pieces?

Afaik, it varies. Kai said that the one that was based around the golden number took many hours of planning work to set it up, all of the math involved. On the other hand, they said the one with the Chao (the yinyang) came out of a trip on DMT.

I think zie said that zie was going to take a whole bunch of mushrooms on new years eve and lock zirself in a room till the next drawing is planned....

[Triple Zero]

too bad you can't simply take pics of a good hallucinogenic trip

[AFK]

I made a brief 3 or 4 minute movie with a couple of college buddies concerning LSD.  It was a satirical PSA warning about the dangers of LSD complete with trip-interlude.  I had an SVHS camera which had all sorts of cool video effects on it.  If I ever find a way to convert it to digital I'll post it up. 

[B_M_W]

A mixed-media approach to Parable that Kai'enne just did, yesterday I think.

They said it took them seven hours.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j107/KT_Kaitlyn/icarus_mixed_media.jpg

[Triple Zero]

wow that looks pretty awesome.

is that their reflection i see vaguely in the painting?

[B_M_W]

I'd think so, yeah.

Someone was taking the picture, makes sense it would be them. Didn't notice that till you mentioned it.

[Richter]

That one is quite good!  Seeing it seriously improved my evening @ work. 

[hunter s.durden]

A mixed-media approach to Parable that Kai'enne just did, yesterday I think.

They said it took them seven hours.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j107/KT_Kaitlyn/icarus_mixed_media.jpg

So she still talk to you, and forgets about her old friend HSD.

I'm going to go cut.