Doze Green: Chaos Magick

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Interview by Sarah L. Myers

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Your last exhibit, The Left Hand Path (Jonathan LeVine Gallery) in New York focused on your roots in graffiti as well as metaphysical and ethereal ideologies. Tell me a little about your exhibition and the pieces included.

These were basically all new paintings, all new works that have not been previously exhibited except for one, and they were based on, and enveloped from previous studies and sketches of metaphysical theories that I have been studying over the years, about chaos magic theories. H.P. Lovecraft was an inspiration, people who have theories about time and space, and I’ve just been really inspired by that recently so I just wanted to touch on darkness and shadows and refracted light and spirits more than usual.

You represent dimensions and material planes in your paintings through unfinished, incomplete characters. How does this relate to your stream-of-consciousness method of painting?

Incomplete characters who are fragmented, who look like they’re kind of ascending and descending are basically just a metaphor for my life and experiences I’ve gone through, people in my life I’ve engaged with, people who have been fractured or basically have holes in their characters – they’re windows to the soul. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul but I wanted to show their frame, their essence exuding from their insides, from their shell. I want to show the different modes. They’re incomplete because they’re still evolving.

My characters represent the past, present, and future, and they kind of come into existence by themselves. When I draw, and when I paint, I don’t dictate to the characters. I don’t do many studies. I kind of like basically let them come through the painting, through little nuances and little things that come, that peek out through the paint little anomalies in the paint and it could be something as subtle as that. At any given moment my eye might catch something and I’ll say I’ve had enough of this character. That’s where he is in his evolution, I’ve got to move on to the next thing. So when I do a painting I look in all directions It’s kind of like I have a mental picture of the painting as a whole and things pop into the void of the canvas or the void of the wall or whatever I’m working, or whatever medium I’m working on. They kind of come into existence through these little portals or windows in my head, or through sight, or just through feeling. So that’s the stream of consciousness in the painting. It’s definitely free flow and it definitely develops on its own. It’s like I’m the vehicle, I’m not the essence of it. I don’t dictate to the painting, the painting pretty much drives me through it.

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