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Tassili Fungi Runner - Emblem Replica
Tassili Fungi Runner - Emblem Replica
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Tassili Fungi Runner - Emblem Replica
Limited Edition of 55.
Resin cast (plastic), hand painted and signed by Alex Grey
Ready to Hang
Dimensions:
7.25" diameter x 0.625" deep
Psychedelic mushrooms may have stimulated both the visual cortex and the desire of early humanity to make art. In the Tassili Caves of Algeria are the earliest known representations (12,000 - 9,000 BC) of Human Mushroom fusions, as a group of mushroom-headed beings holding mushrooms scamper across the cave walls on dotted hills. I first remember seeing them in Terence McKenna’s book, “Food of the Gods” as graphics that Kathleen Harrison had prepared. I recently painted a rainbowed emblem based on the Tassili mushroom runners as a study for murals in the Psychedelic Reliquary of Entheon.
Grateful to acknowledge Earl Davis, a longtime friend, who has gifted the Psychedelic Reliquary at Entheon with Kathleen Harrison’s original drawing of the Tassili Bee Shaman, also first published in Food of the Gods. Looking forward to sharing this beautiful and historic work in Entheon.
Tens of thousands of years ago, when the imagination first incited paleolithic humanity to make art, what was the catalyst? Perhaps psychedelics and dramatic stories. The earliest known cave mural is dated to 43,900 years ago and was found in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The painting shows a possible hunt scene of humanoid figures around a giant buffalo. The figures have features of other creatures, like a bird’s head. This is an example of a “theriomorph,” a figure that combines human and animal features and is one of the classic archetypes of visionary art. The earliest sculpted humanoid figure yet discovered was found in a German cave, carved 40,000 years ago in mammoth ivory, it is a human-animal hybrid known as Lion Man. It is clear that the earliest known artworks demonstrate the visionary imagination. - Alex Grey
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