A funnel of spiritual light swirling into the crown brings glowing visions. Spectral presences of great artists from the past surround and influence the painter. Behind, a leering thanatopic phantasm represents dark psychological forces, passions and fears that drive us and remind us that our time to create on this mat

copyright 2006, 2011 Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale An addendum was added in 2011. (The follo

Alex Grey is a wizard. In a few square inches, instantly apprehensible, this picture may do a better job expressing my trip than all the words I am about to type, but this is his gift. My gift - the net I get to take into altered-states - is language. This trip report is my best attempt to create s

Alex Grey is known for his paintings of glowing anatomical human bodies, that "x-ray" multiple layers of reality; an integration of body, mind, and spirit.