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Published: 2013-08-31 02:14:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 47235; Favourites: 1848; Downloads: 0
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Digital, Corel PainterUsed this photo as reference:senshistock.deviantart.com/artβ¦
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This image is just ssso good on so many levels...I don't know where to begin! Concept straight through to execution...the humor...the expression...the detail...the lighting. It's a winner. Great job, Daniel!
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Wow, thank you very much! It means alot to hear it.
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Terrific! Have to agree with speaker below, his [BEEP] is awesome!
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Incredible piece...love it! I WOULD LOVE A PRINT!
Most of the comments under it on my Facebook feed were commenting on how the genital mushroom patch was humorous...I on the other hand was thinking how profound the whole piece was.
Terence Mckenna's ideas of how psilocybin containing mushrooms affected Paleolithic man came to mind... "The behavioral style of male dominance was chemically interrupted by psilocybin in the diet, so it allowed the style of socialorganization called partnership to emerge, and that that occurred during the period when language, altruism, planning, moral values, esthetics, music and so forth -- everything associated with humanness -- emerged during that period. About 12,000 years ago, the mushrooms left the human diet because they were no longer available, due to climatological change and the previous tendency to form dominance hierarchies re-emerged. So, this is what the historic dilemma is: we have all these qualities that were evolved during the suppression of male dominance that are now somewhat at loggerheads with the tendency of society in a situation of re-established male dominance.Β
The paleolithic situation was orgiastic and this made it impossible for men to trace lines of male paternity, consequently there was no concept of 'my children' for men. It was 'our children' meaning 'we, the group.' This orgiastic style worked into the effects of higher doses of psilocybin to create a situation of frequent boundary dissolution. That's what sexuality is, on one level, about and it's what psychedelics, on another level, are about. With the termination of this orgiastic, mushroom using style of existence, a very neurotic and repressive social style emerged which is now worldwide and typical of western civilization."Β
So the mushroom as sex organ works perfectly to represent this idea...plus the human figure looks not only like he is emerging from the earth (as if nature and the mushroom were forming him) but also that he is hairy/grassy and looks like prehistoric man. This is a fantastic picture!!!
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Oh wow. I wanna know more of what you've studied. I was only going to go as far as perhaps say something about fungus flowers... Love your interpretation.
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Haha... Thank you! You might know too much about mushrooms.
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ordered a print...super excited! your on my radar now...look forward to checking back here!
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Wow! Thank you SOOOO much. It really means alot. How big was the print? I'd love it if you would send me a pic of the print hanging on your wall. I'd be happy to post that on my blog/facebook.
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i had to go with the larger one. 24 x24. I will send you a pic for sure!
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Cool! Thank you very much!
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omg this is so cool. The mushrooms almost made me spit coffee all over my keyboard. I love this so much, thanks for showing me!
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Thank you, that's very nice to hear. I really do appreciate being able to use your stock and will probably do it again.
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I shared on tumblr and FB and I showed the model, too 
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Wow, thank you! I hope he liked it as well.
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I don't think he's seen the message yet, but we're getting together tonight so I will ask ;D
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I see what you did there mate! XD!!!
Gotta love how beautifully painted yet ironic your art is at times!
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Thank you, that's what I usually aim at.
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And you always succeed (-u-)b
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Yeah, I feel like this some days, too.
It looks great!
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The Mushrooms are placed in a funny way XD
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right? i wont lie thats what got me to view it
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