Dorian Visionheart Dyer
My art speaks for itself -- words are not really needed. But there are a few things I would like to add.As I see it, the intention of my pictures is to help us remember the love and freedom that is the core of our being, that we are multi -dimensional beings of light existing in many worlds simultaneously, and we can develop within ourselves the ability to remember and function from this vastness and power of our spirit and bring heaven on earth into our lives.
The challenge is to clear enough of the limiting fears, conditioning, addictions, pain, and abuse we have embodied and gather the clarity and strength necessary to let go of identifying with our personal history - who we think we are - so we can lift the veils over our perception and reveal the our miraculous potential.
The beauty and abundant selfless giving of nature and the planet is humbling and is a great teacher to me. Growing up in the Northwest among the snow-clad mountains and rich forests has been soothing and healing and has opened inner doors.
To see and experience myself as mountains, sky, sun, rain, eagle and hummingbird -- as everything around me ñ and feeling myself to be transparent as if the light of the sun was going right through me, spontaneously finding myself infolded in a state of pure joy, bliss and happiness as if touched by some angelic hand, has happened to me more then once.
Life is a quest to step beyond accepted assumed beliefs of what reality is and what we are. By the time most of us reach adulthood our awareness has narrowed and many limitations and walls are in place, usually created from fear and pain, and what we think is expected of us, defining our lives and awareness into small worlds of the safe and the known.
I am self-taught as an artist, having no formal western education since high school. I found it easiest to play and experiment with soft and oil pastels and colored pencils. I now work in acrylics on canvas.
Inspired since early in my life by a feeling of existing beyond the boundaries of my body, in worlds only the heart can perceive, I struggled to live and grow in the so called "real world. A world filled with the stress of conditional love, fear, rejection and competition that is difficult for so many of us and creates so much suffering.
As I matured and grew in awareness I learned to embody the attitude of the warrior and take the wounding of my heart and mind, and sometimes body, and transform it into the fuel necessary to reach greater levels of understanding and compassion and develop the skill to walk in the inner and vaster worlds of spirit which is the source and guiding light of my art.
I sense, as many of us do, that we are being offered opportunities to see more clearly and deeply into the nature of ourselves and our connection with everything. Indeed that we are everything we see and experience. The veils are being lifted and many blessing await us, as well as challenges, in this time of planetary crisis.
Our future selves are calling us. Calling us to remember the way we already know, the way we have already taken.