PaulRuckerArt.com is An artist's website.
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Welcome to the Visionary Art of Paul B. Rucker
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Excerpted from the website:
- My work explores the body-in-dream-- the human condition on the plane of the soul, where beauty and joy co-exist with the night-side of human nature-- a pageant of transformations. Before I could talk, I was seeing these things in dreams and visions, compelled to make art from these moments of non-ordinary reality. My life’s journey is guided, and my art inspired, by the track of wonder-scent. Like a Pythian serpent, the paint speaks secrets to me-- over the years I have taught myself almost all of what I know --how can tinted substances evoke energy, or the non-material? Vivid colors interplaying take on qualities of iridescence, and scattered light. That paint can do this amazes me.
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I have been making visionary art and exploring in different creative media for many years, all with the goal of bringing the magic and beauty of the "Otherworld" into this one. Many of my images reveal new and original interpretations of deities and spiritual scenarios from many paths, exotic and arcane. My most famous image so far is "Melek Ta'us"-- the "Peacock Angel" of the Yezidi, who is also a central divinity in the Feri Tradition of witchcraft. Before I made this image, there WAS no (contemporary) image of Melek Ta'us-- now my interpretation of him is all over the world, tattooed on someone's back, cited in scholarly Vedic journals, and repeatedly used on both Feri and Yezidi sites to depict this being.
MELEK TA'US IMAGE
The Blue Man of Faerieworlds!
In recent years I have also been experimenting with bodypainting and theater and have achieved some notoriety as the "Blue Man" of the Faerieworlds Festival (occurring annually in Oregon). My primary goal was "to make a memorable and lasting impression" and it appears I succeeded, as the Blue Man keeps turning up in promotional articles and ephemera relating to this event: most notably on p. 107 of the August 2008 issue of MAXIM magazine!
