Writing & Artwork by Ba Adonai :
Although I have created artwork with every one of the 144 coloring book pages of The UNITY LIFE COLORING BOOK, I have only done very few drawings using these printed pages which you can also download for free to print and color at home. Here is a small gallery of all these works. Click the icon on the top right of each image to expand it to full screen size.
"Dove of Peace & Liberation" aka "Dove of Liberation"
FACET 5(77) ◊ SEED
This is a very central example of my drawings which I often print and glue onto handmade greeting cards. My name Ba is Egyptian for "dove", which was a chosen legal name change. This way, it is a self-portrait. The proportions of the dove are deliberately a bit unrealistic in order to emphasize the liberation symbol of the flight anatomy. The vine on the left is Ayahuasca vine from South America, and the trees on the right represent trees you might find in North America. The open handcuffs are multi-interpretive, symbolizing a vision for evolution of North American laws surrounding psychedelic medicine traditions, specifically the Shipibo-Conibo Ayahuasca healing practices. However, it also references another of my works, "Healing Spirit" to represent universal spiritual liberation as this applies to the personal healing journey.
Evolutionary Alchemy
FACET 18(90) ◊ LANGUAGE
This was a demonstration piece designed for a public display of The UNITY LIFE COLORING BOOK at The SunnyCrest Mall, Gibsons, BC, CA. I specifically chose crayons in order to mentor the encouragement of this All Ages & Abilities art tool for mixed learning groups. Crayons are a children's art tool which often makes adults feel challenged artistically, but I felt that my use of the crayons could encourage this as a positive creative challenge for skilled adults sharing creative space with youth and children. I was currently taking a course from Evolutionary Herbalism (their intro course that comes with the book) with a section on how alchemy is related with herbal practice. As an exercise for the course, we were encouraged to draw a layout of all the alchemical elements. I combined that with this demonstration piece.
The Fibonacci Labyrinth
FACET 18(18) ◊ LANGUAGE
This is fan art that I created about the TV series Westworld HBO, featuring the maze which is central to the plot, after watching every episode so far, twice in a row. I finished the last episode of that run just days before Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood launched formal, public allegations against Marilyn Manson, something discussed indepth in my defence video, The MMII. This work also goes way into depth on a number of other topics which are now, and will be ongoingly thoroughly discussed in The UNITY LIFE ARCHIVE. The eyes of the pyramid capstone are a reference to The 64 CARDS and the corresponding ARCHIVE category Diamonds2UNITYLIFE. The tears in the eyes reference back to a series of my other drawings like Healing Spirit and Tobacco Sanctuary which depict the cosmic eye of God with a tear.
Singular Gravity Medicine
FACET 5(5) ◊ SEED
This piece was done for an educational exhibit of The UNITY LIFE COLORING BOOK at The SunnyCrest Mall, Gibsons, BC, CA. I specifically limited my drawing time to 6 hours for this exercise, in order to inspire success on shorter term drawing efforts. As is fairly obvious here, the main technique was tracing (easily done using a laptop or iPad screen as a lightboard), something which I strongly encourage for accessibility of the practice. This work is ecology centred and refers to information discussed about The 64 CARDS in The UNITY LIFE ARCHIVE category Diamonds2UNITYLIFE. Similar to the work directly above, The Fibonacci Labyrinth, this piece self-references a series of my other works which also feature a Buddhic eye of God with a tear, something which philosophically relates to the diamond themes here.
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