Magic Universe World Puzzle

2012 End of the World?

9/10/2018

.5 2012 END OF THE WORLD OR NEW BEGINNING?

2012 Was a mellow year for Magic Universe, as most of my energy was focused upon the Gathering of Tribes where thousands would meet taking place at the end of the Year in Mexico.

However with our friends we threw our own festival in Golden Gate Park, San Fransisco called the Human Be-In, an homage to the 1960s event that took place also in Golden gate park where I collected 33 drawings. Afterward the journey carried me away to the Land of the Mayans....

2012 saw the invention of TEA HERE NOW, a place where I would serve tea, hold workshops, and collect drawings for the Magic Universe. First was in Guatemala for the World Rainbow Gathering, then in Palenque Mexico for December 21st, 2012, the end of the Mayan Calandar!

Rainbow Family, a loosely organized group of Travelers from around the world, Together at the Temple of Inscriptions on December 21st, 2012 Welcoming the 13th Baktun's (a New Age!) begin!

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.4 2011 MAGIC UNIVERSE WORLD TOUR BEGINS

5/1/2016

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.4 2011 Magic Universe World Tour Begins

World Rainbow Gathering 2011 Argentina- First Destination on the World Tour! Where people from around the world made their first Marks onto the World Puzzle!

Drawings from Lago Atitlan Guatemala along the way, where I first encountered World Travelers

Setting out into Mexico Alone, with my backpack, without speaking Spanish, Magic Universe World Tour began. Thanks to a few Mexican Travelers, Backpackers in Guatemala, and Rainbow Family in Argentina the puzzle grew to nearly 100 Pictures in this year!
They not only added to the puzzle themselves but taught me the Way of Traveling to bring about the lifestyle that would carry me around the world!

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.3 2010- sapling takes root! first Showcase in the BIG City

4/14/2016

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.3 -2010 IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY

It was a JOY to bring MAGIC UNIVERSE to the wide world at the free
FIGMENT INTERACTIVE ARTS FESTIVAL in NEW YORK CITY!

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2009- LETS GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD! FIRST PANEL & ATTEMPT AT PRINT!

4/9/2016

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2009- .2 SPROUTING the Vision
All twelve zodiac signs assembled, six males and six females, were merged to Create our first PANEL:

Before me unfolded the years ahead and magnificent possibilities of the Medium I had discovered! Pondering by the duck pond, the first image of what became the MAP could be seen in my minds eye, drawings pouring onto it, representing a Larger Image I wouldnt yet dare to imagine! At this point I was thinking about friends and people I could meet in person, around my local environment, drawing these pictures.

Alight with possibilities I embarked to publish the first version of the Magic Universe Coloring Book (as it was called at the time!) A friend (Thanks Brian O'Shay) put $500 up front for me to print 500 copies! As I was just completing my Undergraduate for Anthropology at Southeast Missouri State University, my travels began!

Unfolding this display of taped together from recycled filing folders I would engage campers at local festivals in Missouri! This photo was from Festie Fest (a one time festival small enough I could pitch the idea to all).

Visiting Schwagstock festival in Missouri for my Big Premiere, my confidence faded. I was ahead of my time in offering a coloring book puzzle before coloring was popular. The lukewarm response of the Festival Goers made it difficult to even pitch the idea at bigger festivals I attended that year (Wakarusa in Arkansas, and Bonnaroo in Tennessee).
I sold maybe one copy of the book to Bonnaroo's 80,000 attendees, seeing the great idea was lost in it's 'little delivery' in the ocean of creation. However it was there that the inspiration, amongst these masses of humanity, came that I could get EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD to add a drawing to the puzzle!

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2008- soulgate plants the seed & more drawings are sought

2/22/2016

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2008-.1 THE SEED IS PLANTED

Inspired by my friend's desire to color my drawings, an idea had begun to move within me. Coloring books...I could make my art into coloring books! Better yet, I could help different artists turn their work into coloring books, as well!

In excitedly sharing my new ideas with friends, one of them, a local artist girl (Kat Maddock), wasted no time! In January 2008, spontaneously she brought me a drawing for the coloring book I had been talking about.

Sudden insight granted a boon to the project: the drawings could all connect, making a larger image! So I gave her drawing to four artists around town, asking each one to go off of a different edge of the drawing.

While waiting the rest of the year on those first pieces, The concept had grown even grander. Enter: The Zodiac Puzzle .
Like a game of human sudoku, I needed to get a male and female of each zodiac sign connected in each book. This would bring energetic balance & allow the creation of a divine composition.

Divine composition- allowing Divine forces compose the greater image
(so what we all make is in the image of the Divine, not man)

Trusting Synchronicity, where puzzle pieces fit in the overall image was predetermined when I met someone, instead of myself making a Decision.
For example, I needed a female Taurus to help finish the first panel of 12 pieces. I saw a girl, chalk drawing on the River wall in Cape Girardeau Missouri, by the Mississippi river! She was in the zone so we left her to it.
As we were leaving she asked us the date, to sign her drawing, and we started talking! After describing the project we found she was the girl I was looking for! She drew the picture below:

This was the FIRST CODE informing just HOW this will come together! See: MAP for more info on these CODES

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The Organic Unfolding of the Magic Universe World Puzzle

2/1/2016

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2007(0)Groundwork- fertile ground for creative ideas

On a hot and balmy Missouri summer's eve, Whilst restoring an old Historical Building, a friend and I were making art after work.
He was quite entertained by the animals and images that would reveal themselves when rotating my dense and intuitive line drawings, so he asked me if he could color one! "Of Course," I responded, so he picked up my coloring pencil box, a gift from my mother.
He then shook the box in such a way that a single color of Random selection popped out!

"Its the Magic Universe coloring box!" he proclaimed, since the Universe selected the color for us!

Then and there the term Magic Universe was born! Conceived by chance, Randomness it's seed. That is if you believe in such things!

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years past...

2012 End of the World?

.5 2012 END OF THE WORLD OR NEW BEGINNING?

.4 2011 MAGIC UNIVERSE WORLD TOUR BEGINS

.4 2011 Magic Universe World Tour Begins

.3 2010- sapling takes root! first Showcase in the BIG City

.3 -2010 IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY

2009- LETS GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD! FIRST PANEL & ATTEMPT AT PRINT!

2008- soulgate plants the seed & more drawings are sought

The Organic Unfolding of the Magic Universe World Puzzle

2007(0)Groundwork- fertile ground for creative ideas

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