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The Wizard in the Spiral - this is a collection of biographical pics, as well as self-portraits and photos of various artworks in progress. Sorry about the face - most of the actual pics of me are hidden for that reason.

I just realised how amazing the on-line caption and keyword editor is in SmugMug's Tool Kit. Whoever dreamed up 'Select All' and 'Deselect All' feature and multiple fills with Cut and Paste gets the Samuel Johnson Award for Digital Mastery. To you i gift 'Desert Gallery' - the original and framed seen in my Faces of Earth gallery. Let me know where i can get hold of you.

Some of the pics illustrate the artist in action; that is a moment we usually share alone - if that sounds right! Someone must have taken the photograph - hey Miles from Nowhere - where are you?

inanga

Please contact me at any time - Google 'jeff jville'.
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SmugMugly

a collection of my paintings around my smug ugly mug

courtesy of Picasa 3 (especially), SmugMug (especially also), Google and Mozilla Firefox August 2009

all in all a fun exercise on inanga's Big OE
Nanosecond Sorano - inanga and Ms P

from the Tuscany Series, framed - Vernon the Vauxhall in the background. inanga at left - Ms P at right - mfnw's verandah and shed as backdrops.

420mm x 595mm on paper framed
Marty and i learning Life Mastery Mary-style

I had the pleasure recently of meeting the most gentle of men. One was named Marty and he is centered above. He taught me about reptiles and the ancient Eastern Martial Arts. I promised to provide him with information on Aotearoa's ancient creature - the tuatara. Hey Marty this is as good an opportunity as any, so here goes.

The tuatara is old, very old. It predates the dinosaurs that perished in the Jurassic, and is reliably reported to be 260 million-years-old and yet still survives as a distinct species. It is the only survivor of the Sphenodon Class. It has a third-eye that is still highly photo-sensitive to light and fully operative.

[Marty, they spend hours staring directly at the Sun because it activates calcite crystals in their pineal-gland-equivalent initiating a second harmonic generation process whereby incoming and splitting photons leave with equal frequency and third-phase entangled.]

As I said Tuatara is a Class of its own, similar to Reptilia. I suspect that Sphenodon punctatus, still living, was the only member of TUATARA Class.

The correct taxonomic sequence is: Kingdom Animalia; Phylum Chordata; Subphylum Vertebrata; Class TUATARA; Order Sphenodontia; Family Sphenodontidae; Genus Sphenodon; and one species only of the entire Class SPHENODON PUNCTATUS. I agree with you, tuatara are more dinosauric thus birdlike than reptiles, hence the exposed vertebra.

Curiously, the diet of tuatara is Clematis (a local climbing plant), kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum) with properties similar to the indole alkaloids of kavakava, and several weta species (the largest insect in the world and also endemic to NZ).

I will send some pictures to www.northernberksreptileshow.com and you can use them if you wish. I got some great pics of Henry, currently imprisoned in Invercargill, New Zealand, when I was working there for Lonely Planet. Wiki gives this news:

"Tuatara eggs have a soft, parchment-like shell. It takes the females between one and three years to provide eggs with yolk, and up to seven months to form the shell. It then takes between 12 and 15 months from copulation to hatching. This means reproduction occurs at two- to five-year intervals, the slowest in any reptile.[11] Wild tuatara are known to be still reproducing at about 60 years of age—"Henry", a 111-year-old tuatara at Southland Museum in Invercargill, New Zealand, became a father (possibly for the first time) on 23 January 2009.[50][51]"

The oldest living creature on earth - the tuatara - is considered here to be the Keeper of the Twelve Kete [Baskets] of Knowledge, an appellation it shares most probably because of its manipulation of serotonin, melatonin and epitonin in third-eye visualization - SUN, MOON and SOMA as discussed.

I treasure the chance to meet you again so we can do some Sufi spinning and enjoy a laugh.

Jeff

thanks to Helen Gale for the great photo of Marty and I.
Why I Paint!

"I paint to capture the moment I am in; that nanosecond when light is fused into the image in front of me.

Each painting starts as a swirl and then evolves into a lattice of swirls -

The results astonish, regardless of method, media, size or surface.

It is my tangible Hand of God"

inanga

Background: 'Hopi Country'

acrylic, gouache, oil, gold leaf, gold spray paint on canvas board, framed by the artist, 2007.

Kaitiaki: Maria, Khandallah
No fun - self-promotion

Original: 'No fun - self-promotion' by inanga; photography by mfnw

inanga
The Wizard in the Spiral (detail from 'Tarawera 1886') 

gouache, acrylic and gold leaf on photographic paper

Original: gifted to Gerry the German Mushroom King (seriously!)
Portrait of inanga as an Old Man

THE MIRROR

I am in a bar
Looking in the mirror
Is that what I am?
Is that what I have become?
Hair, face, arms
As I see them now
Is that me?
Or is it illusion?

Is that me in the mirror
Or is it what I have become
It must be me
I feel it must be
As I see it in front of me...
As this reality
Perhaps it isn't
But then -
Why am I here?

Wraparound mirrors
I can see me
From all sides.
Back and front
Left and right
All my ugliness
And part of my beauty
All in sight
In the mirror...
... that gives me such a fright
Is that me -
Do I really care -
I see other faces in the mirror
Are they really there?
Is it me or them
Probably both
I have no fear.

Look into the mirror
See yourself for who you are
But perhaps not 
As you look from afar.
In the mirror
Truth or untruth
Just you as you are
Peering in aloof...

inanga




gesso, acrylic and oil on canvas, and two wooden panels (gold and silver spray paint, collage, acrylic and sand on wood) 2008

420mm x 420mm

No great secret here - you look weirder the older you get. I don't know where the arty cap came from as I never wear such a thing - except one night when I went to a party with Harry Potter and I (and he) dressed as 'Beat' poets.
Telephone Book Secrets

This is a detail from the Greymouth telephone book. It has been incorporated into Whitebait's Partial Autobiography - see galleries. Listed in the frame of the whitebaiting net are rivers where Whitebait (inanga) is sometimes found.
'Ploggable' Fare Collage - Smug Ugly

A collage - totally random - that seemed to fit in with this gallery. Techno painting gone mad. I am in there somewhere hiding behind Homage to Caravaggio.

courtesy Picasa, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
SmugMugly

a collection of my paintings around my smug ugly mug

courtesy of Picasa 3 (especially), SmugMug (especially also), Google and Mozilla Firefox August 2009

all in all a fun exercise on inanga's Big OE
SmugMugly

a collection of my paintings around my smug ugly mug

courtesy of Picasa 3 (especially), SmugMug (especially also), Google and Mozilla Firefox August 2009

all in all a fun exercise on inanga's Big OE
SmugMugly

a collection of my paintings around my smug ugly mug

courtesy of Picasa 3 (especially), SmugMug (especially also), Google and Mozilla Firefox August 2009

all in all a fun exercise on inanga's Big OE
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