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Loren Marks

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About Me

View my website here -www.lorenmarks.com


Making art can lead you to a balanced ecstasy and it can often leave you feeling cursed. I've driven myself close to the vibrations of madness with the desire for truth, gripping the idea tighter until I feel myself choking. I then (again) realize the secret. Move from the INSIDE OUT rather than the outside in. This simple yet challenging, ongoing process of recognizing truth is where authenticity is grounded. It's where the highest choice is made, the only way to make art and...the best way to live.This way has been carried into the theme of my work.SACRED ART is the title to my continuing series of paintings and sculptures. They are visions, epiphanies, prayers and objects of ritual which are intended to serve as tools to guide to the freedom of instinct (the ultimate survival tool). Instinct is too often ignore and this, I believe, breeds sickness on all levels, be it mental, spiritual or physical. No matter who we are, where we come from or whether we realize it or not, we humans inherently desire the same things: to be awake - aware- whole.My desire is to bust open lies, sanction the holy forgotten, bring the balance between dark and light and to go perhaps beyond there. By combining universal symbols that go with the grain of instinct, I aim to bring an objective view of ourselves and our world.In sharing my personal journey with the viewer, I hope to spark their desire to honor the self. We must give birth to the highest choice. This is when we are truly awake and can live our lives to the fullest. This idea is my wish and driving force. - Loren MarksMyspace Layouts
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My Interests

Animals, stones, bones, the sun, shooting dice, hiding out, guitar, drums, pulleys, alleyways, the Met, the Guggenheim, walking, old man bars, rituals.

I'd like to meet:

Anybody who doesn't suck on the soul of another. If this is not you, turn back fucker.

Music:

Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Miles, Parker, Coltrane, Elvis, Doors, Jim Carroll Band, Velvet Underground, Stones, White Stripes, U2, Crass, Pistols, Discharge, Nausea...

Movies:

Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Marlon Brando, The Lost Weekend, El Mariachi, Like Water for Chocolate, The Dreamers, Amadeus, Taxi Driver...

Television:

Turner Classic Movies, Discovery, History, OTB, Arts, CNN...

Books:

Charles, Charles and Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante, Celine, Hemingway, Jim Carroll, Dave Eggers, Hunter S. Thompson, Kerouac, a few other beats, a few good poets, David Sedaris, Neitzche.....

Heroes:

Bukowski, destroyers and healers.