Metagnosis

The Metagnosis gallery works exploring themes of illusion, awakening and institutional critique.

“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. — Hermann Hesse

A grieving woman in black cradles a child beside a gravestone inscribed in French, on raw linen.

For Glory or War I – Sancta Bellum

“War does not determine who is right- only who is left.” — Bertrand Russell - Oil on Raw Linen (unstretched) 78 x 100 cm

Gleaners: For Glory – oil painting by George Wendell Baker depicting fallen figures on a battlefield with a rider and circling ravens; an anti-war allegory. “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” – Goya.

Untitled design - 1

“All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” - Voltaire. “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” – Goya. Oil on Canvas 72 x 90 cm

A solemn woman dressed in mourning gazes back in grief, seated against a golden-hued abstract wall with a symbolic halo.

For Glory or War II – Sancta Bellum

“The living will envy the dead.” - Dostoevsky - Oil on Raw Linen (unstretched) 78 x 100 cm

Meliai

"Cast not pearls before swine." Matthew 7:6 - Dyptic / Oil on Canvas 115 x 170 cm *(Mod. credits: Below)

Scrying is an ancient practice of gazing into a reflective or moving surface to receive visions, hidden knowledge, or messages about the future.

The Scrying Well

"Scrying is akin to muscle, albeit one made of mystical energy instead of tissue and powered by the arcane rather than biochemicals." - Violet Lumani

Sibyl

“The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong; the next most distressing thing is to be proved right.” - Aldous Huxley - Oil on Canvas 120 x 120 cm

A child in red stands before four stampeding horses emerging from shadow, evoking the apocalypse.

Clades Belli

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.” - Francisco De Goya - Oil on Canvas 80 x 116 cm

The Creation of Adam

"He breathed his spirit into Adam. The spirit is the power of his mother, but he did not realize this, because he lives in ignorance."

American Empire, the Epstein, elite class

The Ritual Appetite

"The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. " - George Carlin - Oil on Canvas 72 x 90 cm

Available works – HERE

I would like viewers to note that, while some of this work engages with symbols and languages of the occult to explore how they operate within human consciousness, this is not done so to endorse or serve occultism and the dark arts. The hidden, the alluring, and the forbidden are presented as mirrors and illustrations of our vulnerability to deception. These images are evocations, not invitations. I paint metaphors of temptation and illusion as catalysts for anamnesis: messages to awaken and remember the sovereignty of the spirit. Like the Gnostics and Hermeticists, I view the world as a veil of mixed signals: truth interwoven with distortion. My art seeks to disentangle the threads, revealing how the light of Divine Grace can be refracted through the glamour of illusion.

* (Model Credits: Lovelifedrawing / SketchDaily / Croquis Cafe / GRAFIT / Mjranum /Mervilina)

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