Art review: Karisma’s Monkey God & Twelvers’ Well

Monkey God!

Someone said an artist is merely a scribe, and her intended message is immaterial, but what the viewer interprets from her piece becomes its reality. Once her art is born, her soul exits her body. The artist does not own her work. Hence, she cannot ascertain who gives it life or takes it apart. Her job description is giving birth to her next piece, period! 

Monkey God is a sublime piece of oil born in the era of the Darwinian ape, where Nietzsche proclaims God is Dead. Hitler moves ethnic cleansing to its logical conclusion. At the same time, Freud pushes psychoanalysis toward a vibrant sexual revolution with the mantra 'If it feels good, do it. This culminates in Krishna's consciousness for Brahmavamso to offer suicide bombers some monk magic to align their mental issues with dharma rather than drama.

Twelvers' Well

As a child, he disappears into a well while attending the funeral of the eleventh, then ascends into a state of occultation. He remains for a signal of aligned stars to emerge, with a caveat that civilization engulfs in chaos, which adherents initiate, triggering the twelfth's resurrection. 

Twelvers' Well is a sick sheet of oil fleshed out by a male homo holed up in a basement with an unwashed bulldog. His theme and composition are aligned as he works on the easel. Inspired by Dante's Purgatory, the man weaves the Seven Deadly Sins into a well of fire, wrath culminating in the child's resurrection, but only when chaos is defined, validated, and dealt with. 

With her oil, the artist proclaims naivety, leaving the ministry of freedom in the hands of those encumbered within a hidden fence. The root of the twelfth's passion stems from fear of the unspoken injunction that prevents adherents from abandoning the enclosure at the threat of death. 

The end is nigh, the little one bellows!

Words – Tommy Peters