- What is the Arcanum?
The mystery is yesterday's dream of tomorrow's utopia condensed into a single drop of luminescent transparency; it is a foreboding prophecy of what was and a fulfilled promise recited of what will be. To the uninitiated eye, it may seem like a bizarre meeting place for ideas to manifest through expressive and artistic means. One thing is certain: from the ethereal realms beyond, colours have come forth and stained our own. What you see, what you find - is entirely up to you.
- Who is Zevul?
Zevul is a dwelling place of the soul; whose sole purpose is fulfill the transformative process of unification. The mystery is communicated through the vessel expressing a higher noetic plane of existence. Zevul is a name given a concept; a frame of mind which expresses and performs the Work.
- What is the Work?
The Work is the culmination of all the inner labour; it is the direct experience of life refined through creativity and condensed into expression. It is an extension of the word which has echoed since the beginning; birthing galaxies and bringing mind to atoms. Each soul continues their Work until it is finished. For all of life and for the rest of it - this is it. This is the Work which has brought us here. It is destiny manifest - fate prophesied and fulfilled. The Work is a journal of the soul's voyage across frozen deserts, lush mountains and barren cities. It is a map of the cosmic seas which have been crossed, and it is an account of the souls whose lighthouses have guided and lit the path to strange shores. The Work gives form to the formless, it gives colour to feelings some have never felt and it describes in vivid detail the journey of the soul.
- Where do you get your inspiration from?
The inspiration for the Work comes from the inner world and the experiences given traversing that space. Inspired by the transcendentality of symbolism and different states of consciousness every part of the Work is unique. Detailed within, is Light and dark and every hue of grey in-between. Prayer and contemplation are part of the Work and in its methodology: both subconscious and superconscious are explored. The unification of opposites and the alchemical process of turning lead into gold is ever-present. The Work ranges from the profanely mundane and the profoundly sacred. Inspiration comes from spiritual works and inner contemplation, scriptures, philosophy as well as the visionary qualities of art.
- How did you start?
One faithful night by picking up a brush and rediscovering a child-like wonder towards the world.
- What is your process like?
Tumeltous or completely serene, there is no one way to the end. You just have to learn to trust the process. The finished work explains in lucid detail what the process was like.
- Where are you based?
In a garden which beneath rivers flow.
- Are the paintings available as prints?
No.
- Are you for real?
As real as whatever you believe it to be; shrouded in a thick mist of abstract conceit - in the Arcanum the line between fantasy and real is erased. Dreams and waking life are both equally mystified, the surreal take real, palpable shape and the tangible is untangled into bewildering, indecipherable and ambigious imagery.
- What do you do for fun?
Contemplate the beauty of trees, the mystery of the wind and the wisdom of the moon - the celestial body which knows all our secrets. Giving thanks to the sun and its nourishing warmth, tending to the life that surrounds us and sitting in still quietness.
- Do you do commissions?
Yes! You can read more information about commissions
here.