Freeze Piece 2011

Masai and Zina with Upfest 

@Freeze Festival
Battersea Power station, London
28th-29th Oct 2011

Good spot to have a look at some awesome snowboard & ski tricks, a lot of Norwegians representing!, well done! Made me miss home a bit after watching some short films of off piste in that lovely powder snow.

It helped standing next to the jumping bean burrito's mad bass, it kept the fumes bumping out of the cans.  Ah, yeah, thank  for lovely warm drinks from the Cake Hole, and the Chunky Chips was quite good too. Other artist painting was Data, Dan Kitchener, id-iom, Depecht and Pilot. Thanks to Upfest & Dephect for putting this together, and the massive crowd watching us paint. (please link us up if you find some photos)

DAY 1

Masai                                                                 Zina

My white hat is turned blue on me.

photo by Tee Byford

Checking out some jumps, kicks and tricks

DAY 2

Battersea power station

Almost there

Finishing touches, hah, how elegant?!

 Finale!

JUMPING JACK FROST AND THE TIGER CUB

 Brave and DanKitchener

                                        id-iom                                                           Brave

 DanK

Cosmic Egg @ Upfest

Eros (‘Love’) is the Universal Being, the creator of all individual expressions of life.

"The Cosmic Egg- Eros Phanes"
Med: Gouache on canvas

Size: 35,5 cm x 45cm
Exhibited @Upfest 2011 Bristol

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Some research if you´re interested:

Eros shines as a great Light—the Light of the Universe. As such he was known as Phanes (‘Brilliant’), the golden-winged god of light. He was also known as Ericapaeus (‘Power’), Logos ('Word' or ‘Wisdom’) and Metis (‘Intelligence’). The Romans called him Cupid.

Eros was the name given by the Orphic and Greek philosophers to the ‘First-born’ (Protogonus)—the first complete manifestation of Divinity. He was described mythologically as the son of Nyx (‘Night’- also known as Aether, the Holy Spirit, the divine Potential—the still, silent potential of all movement, sound, law and creativity.) and Boreas (‘North Wind’), who themselves were derived from Aether (‘Spirit’) and Erebus (‘Darkness’). Eros was born from the Cosmic Egg laid by Nyx and fertilised by Boreas.

Although referred to as ‘He’, Eros/Phanes is both male and female.  As he burst asunder the Cosmic Egg, the two halves formed Heaven (Uranus) and Earth (Gaea/ Gaia). All the elements, gods, goddesses, nature, everything, was contained within and emerged from his being. More on: The Story of the Cosmic Egg.

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Upfest:11 Shutter Piece

Zina & Masai

 A piece I did on the organic store of the lovely lady that housed us that weekend.

Guess that is the worst shutter you could ever paint on, since its not much to paint on. It was full of tiny wholes, it was basically almost a perfect imprint on the plastic on the back in the end.

Louis Masai Michel on the other side;

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