{"title":"Michael Viola","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/michael-viola\/michael-viola-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Viola is a gay and Latino male artist, psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner and psychedelic integration\u003cbr\u003ecoach based in Portland, OR. He is trained as an herbalist and has a deep and intuitive connection with the Earth\u003cbr\u003eand the natural world. His journey has taken him through the corporate and educational structures of NYC, the\u003cbr\u003edesert of New Mexico and the jungle and Andean peaks of Peru. These spaces and cultures have influenced his\u003cbr\u003ecapacity to stretch, adapt, and energetically understand a wide range of consciousness as reflected in his vibrational\u003cbr\u003erange. The work he does is intuitive, and empathic and smacks of a style well described as neo-primitive. He\u003cbr\u003efacilitates peoples’ opening to higher consciousness in all of the complimentary work he does as an artist, therapist,\u003cbr\u003eand healer. As a visual artist he paints, draws, and designs work that shifts\/challenges viewers’ perspectives as\u003cbr\u003emultilayered pieces, a journey really. As a therapist and healer he works with groups and individuals facilitating a\u003cbr\u003econnection to their transpersonal consciousness. He is grateful that these disciplines, seemingly disparate, that he’s\u003cbr\u003ebeen pursuing for the past twenty years have finally come together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eI view art and its creation as an act of transcendence. It is a way to draw the sublime into the material and for the\u003cbr\u003ethe physical to reach the numinous. As an intuitive artist, I experience the world empathically\/psychically. Different\u003cbr\u003espaces are characterized by a particular resonance. I experience this vibrational energy within my body, and express\u003cbr\u003ethat energy in form, line, and color. These components are layered and come together and separate while viewing,\u003cbr\u003ecreating primal symbols, human\/animal forms, and a general sense of layered construction. I refer to my work as\u003cbr\u003eintuitive, neo-primitive, and energetic.\u003cbr\u003eNeo-primitive harkens back to the most basic of forms we can find etched like runes in stone and drawn in\u003cbr\u003echarcoal on cave walls. Energy and consciousness reduced to its most basic forms of curves and lines and color. This\u003cbr\u003evisual language was often expressed by shamans and medicine people recording their psychic journeys or intending\u003cbr\u003eforms of energy into the world. They were conveying their physical and psychic worlds for posterity. Centuries\u003cbr\u003elater, influenced by abstract, modern, and expressionist style and form it becomes my language to relate the\u003cbr\u003enarrative of an analogous psychic space.\u003cbr\u003eIn life and in artistic practice I strive to draw my community into places of greater sensitivity and ultimately\u003cbr\u003eempathy, through raising conscious awareness. I do this by bringing people closer to their own intuitive faculties.\u003cbr\u003eThe more sensitive they become the more they can understand the symphony of sentient consciousness that\u003cbr\u003emakes up their world and how much of an impact they actually have. I find that the energy I embody challenges\u003cbr\u003eperspective, and as a result draws people into a new place of self-awareness. I do this through the energy I embody,\u003cbr\u003ethe art I create, the transpersonal\/spiritually\/ceremonially rich lifestyle I lead, and how I share that with those I\u003cbr\u003eencounter. Whether it’s through a shamanic drum journey workshop, empathic therapeutic reflection, or intuitive\u003cbr\u003eartistic work, I am seeking to express and reflect the highest resonance I can hold and impart that truth with the\u003cbr\u003eworld. In my practice I express and advocate for three basic relationships: the truth in one’s heart, one’s truth in\u003cbr\u003ecommunity, and one’s responsibility as steward of the Earth. These tenets have guided my own creative journey as\u003cbr\u003ehealer and artist and is very much a lifestyle.\u003cbr\u003eI honor the divinity in myself, in others, and in the natural world around me. This consciousness has a particular\u003cbr\u003eresonance and it magnetizes the ethereal and the magical. I care about the Earth, I care about community,\u003cbr\u003esustainability, and the uniting of peoples by respecting the God spark in all of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"neo-primitive","title":"Neo-Primitive 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcrylic paint and marker on stretched canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e48x36\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of the lockdowns and rampant terror chaos of the pandemic I found a canvas on the street that was dark, and in my eyes sought healing, rehabilitation. We all did. I brought it home and worked with it, got to know it, befriended it as I channeled in a new energy. The way I see this now is how spirit beings walk among us, especially in the darkness. As they converge out of the chaos so do our destinies. This is a special piece to me and continues to communicate new information. It sits behind me as I work with clients therapeutically online. Clients see beyond me and are often pulled into the piece. It draws a lot of shadow up and out of the consciousness field while steeling up hope and determination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Viola","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42167233282151,"sku":null,"price":6990.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1770322442_11462.jpg?v=1770322462"},{"product_id":"pnw-2023","title":"PNW 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcrylic paint and marker on stretched canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e25x49\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“PNW 2023” acrylic paint and marker on canvas, 2023, 49” x 25”. This piece I sat with and communed with all year. The pieces often feature animal energies and they usually visit in dreams or in person. There is a lot of avian and ocean beings in this piece, orca and raven\/crow. The meta language of this space that I tap into looks a bit like Pacific Coastal Native Art. When I hear people say that I respond that we tap into the same energetic psychic space. This place is wild and those who call it home are of many species. We are immersed at all times in this spiritual energy, sentient consciousness. My work as an artist is to create pathways of connection. 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I've always felt I was channeling information that I would receive through one side of my body\/mind. The energy psychology model I work within, the left lobe of the brain is masculine: linear, directive, and active. The right lobe of the brain is feminine: intuitive, spatial, abstract, yielding, and receptive. I often feel this energy moving through the left side of my body which corresponds with the right brain (each lobe controls the opposite side of the body). I receive it and allow it to move through me, encouraged by the non-verbal expressive process of creating visual art. What comes through reminds me of forms and patterns you can see in cave paintings, runic script, or what I've experienced drawn by different tribes in Peru who work with ayahuasca. There is a fountain of information that is being tapped, temporally, vibrationally, and dimensionally different than the standard 3D awareness of regular life. Tapping into this place and drawing that non-verbal information through is an act of transcendence. For the viewer it challenges perspective and draws their consciousness to that place. Ultimately the work I do as an artist and healer is about bridging these realms of consciousness while shifting\/challenging perspective. 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