Bring Rescue or Destroy to Miami Basel

I will be Bring Rescue or Destroy to Miami. During art Basel Miami this Dec I will be Showing at VERGE art fair.and will also be bring a street team to bring Rescue or Destroy.

OpErotica

       OpTwister 24in by 60in Acrylic, Epoxy Resin


 I wanted to share my new series OpErotica with you. I have been studding optical illusions for the last couple of years and have been trying to figure out how to incorporate it into my art. I Finally figured it out with combining op-art and erotica to create OpErotica.

OpOrgasm 48in by 36in Acrylic, Epoxy Resin

OpOrgasm is my most successful OpErotic painting. When I look at this work it creates a physical feeling that ripples threw your body makes you feel that moment before orgasm you can get the idea from this small image but when the paint is almost as big as you the felling overwhelms the hole body.

 OpLiquid 36in by 48in Acrylic Epoxy Resin 

OpDream 48in by 36in Acrylic, Epoxy Resin   

Mike Reynolds Rescue or Destroy

RESCUE OR DESTROY

 Justin Bieber as iconic women of the Renaissance

10in by 8in Oil and gold leaf framed $800 to Rescue or $1600 Destroy  

My Good friend and great artist Mike Reynolds has joined Rescue or destroy with one of his portraits of Justin Bieber as iconic women of the Renaissance. I highly recommend checking out his blog were you can see all of his Justin Bieber spoofs justinbieberasrenaissancewomen.blogspot.com .

Child Hood Influenced Rescue or Destroy

I was an avid reader of National Lampoon and Mad magazine as a child this was one of my favorite covers. It was one of the inspirations  for Rescue or Destroy I will never grow up.

Disco

JULY

Rescue or Destroy

Disco 24 by 18 acrylic, epoxy resin  $1600

I relinquish conscious control over my limbs, my mind drifts back into the periphery, allowing a primal call to create the motions of my body. The mind becomes quiet, and I behold the glorious interweaving patterns and colors breathing and colliding in vivid translucence. My skin ignites with burning energy, growing hotter and hotter until I burst into flames. My body extends out to the furthest reaches of the flames, where I burn even hotter, fueling the conflagration. Steadily, I become a pillar of flame, ascending higher and higher over the earth. And from this height, I have the vision of a million worlds.
When the mind and body ascend into another plane of sight and existence, the sensations are beyond what is conceivable in the existing material world, so the words fail me, and I can only describe it as ‘other-worldly.’ In my experience, I have been able to reach this lucidity through direct mental meditation-in a waking or dreaming state, indirect meditation-often brought upon by the trance-inducing power of sex or dance, and with the use of psychedelic drugs. All have played a profound role in weaving my transcendental experience, guiding me to realize the infinitely complex dimensions of the human mind and spirit.

This painting has till the end of July or it will meet its end unless you rescue it

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Don't like Destroy It

I do not promote this but thought it was interesting what extremes people will go to if they disagree with something.

Woman Arrested in Colorado After Destroying Artwork

By DAVE ITZKOFF

A Montana woman was arrested Wednesday at a Colorado museum after she destroyed an artwork that some observers say depicts Jesus engaged in a sex act. The Denver Post reported that Kathleen Folden of Kalispell, Mont., was taken into police custody after she entered the Loveland Museum/Gallery in Loveland, Colo., and destroyed a work called “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals,” a lithograph by Enrique Chagoya. The police told The Post that Ms. Folden had used a crowbar or similar tool to break the plexiglass in front of the work and then tore it up. She has been charged with criminal mischief, a felony punishable by a fine of up to $2,000.

For several days the museum has faced protests for displaying the work, which also depicts comic book characters, images from Mexican pornography and Mayan symbols. The Post reported that Daryle Klassen, a Loveland city councilman, objected to the display during a council meeting, calling it “smut” and adding, “That’s not what our community is about.” Some Roman Catholics in Loveland had also sought to have the work taken down.

Mr. Chagoya, a professor of art and art history at Stanford University, told The Post that the lithograph was a commentary on revelations of child abuse by Catholic priests.

“My work is about critiquing institutions and politics,” Mr. Chagoya said. “I wasn’t trying to portray Christ; it’s a collage of cutouts from different books.”

Letting go of your Ego

What does Rescue and Destroy have to do with letting go of ones ego. Every Thing, to let go of ones sacred possessions such as ones art that we as artist use to define our selves. Not to be afraid to ask for what we need because the ego is afraid of being hurt.

Your ego makes you feel entitled to get things you deserve. So what do you deserve? You deserve all the things you ever wanted of course. The problem is if that thing you want is in conflict with social conditioning. We wait to be discovered or we are afraid to ask for what we need because we are afraid our ego will be damaged. Letting go of the ego and not taking undesirable outcomes personally… but there is so much to be gained from it.

Many times has my ego grown to big and blinded me of my reality and true path. Rescue or Destroy helps me let go of my ego and take risk and to be willing to let go of things that I hold important. Becoming aware of your ties to ego based consciousness, recognizing and releasing the emotions and thoughts that go with it: the middle of the end

The ego is a limited belief system within our minds that we have molded and identified as being who we are. The ego survives by establishing boundaries, borders and limits on everything it sees. The defining of such boundaries, borders and limits gives it the illusion that it can tell us what is right and wrong, all in an effort to control us by instructing us on what we are and are not, how we should act and not act, and why we should judge those who challenge it; the status quo. We are taught the right and wrong