Description

“The Wet Dream”, the third painting in my thesis, “Jātaka Tales of a Budgie-Sattva”, describes a narrative of the young man and his budgie companion exploring an aquatic lens of the unconscious mind. In the painting the youth is confronted by an “Aqua-Sattva” or teacher fish, who is vertically suspended, its eye at the level of the boy’s 3rd-Eye, serving as a symbolic and mnemonic reminder of the higher conscious state. Jellyfish brush against the young man from behind like curious fingers while the parakeet over his right shoulder exhibits a psychedelic morphism of crustacean and fish as an exploration of the aquatic condition. Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO’s) play over and mask themselves as the background sea floor.