DEBZ COMMISSION

I believe that most art requires some level of ambiguitea to work as art.

But here are some clues.

I approached this piece as a multi-dimensional soul portrait which meant that I had to use my intuition to grasp for her inner essence without knowing Debz very well.

The astro helped in that it showed me a little of her personality and that she appears to have quite a lucky life. But mostly I spent hours pondering over her body language and little by little it revealed its inner being to me.

I was fascinated by her hands, large, graceful, capable and I used them holding in place a psychic shield over her plexus and sex chakras to symbolize her need to protect herself so to conserve her own personal secret magic.

Debz is standing on an image-crossover between a pair of lips in the act of kissing and/or a dolphin symbolizing deep oceanic (unconscious) links.

Her head is slightly tilted to the right and there is a fine channel of polar light shooting vertically up, sustained by the owl of understanding and ultimately crowned by the teapot of transformation. A dancing self holds to the polaritea.

In the background and below, various shadow selves, daemons and protective pixilates flit about nourished by her kind heartedness and compassion for those around her.

A supportive time sphere from the mother planet provides insight (and visual tension top right) while a circle of urban shaman festival goers spin out while chanting <om mani padme hum> bottom left.

These are simply clues to the total meaning but the overall effect is now up to you and the relationship you strike up with the drawing.

I believe you must be free to discover what this means to you by dissolving any remaining ambiguities yourself through contemplation of the drawing over time..

Daevid Allen

JC's WHITE LENS SPECTACLES, COMMISSIONED BY JOHN CULLEN

The drawing is presented as a pair of white lense spectacles mentioned in the gong mythology and defined as lenses which are able to see through the outer appearance of things and reveal secret realities.

The left hand lense carries the experience of making the album: daevid allen 'n'existe pas' in 1978. This was an emotionally turbulent time in Deia, Majorca, where I was living. The relationship with Gilli was about to change radically and I was on a path of chaos where everything I believed was being radically challenged by the world around me.

The inverted triangle represents the downward path into density. It is interesting to note that two tracks on the album are in 22:7 time. This is the secret purpose of the Gong Mandala, i.e. to bring into parallel proportion 22 and 7 otherwise known as Pi. You can hear the two beat cycles one against the other on track two. The same sequence is repeated on track 7. Around midnight as I was recording the vocal to NON GOD WILL NOT GO ON a local artist friend who was angry with me, climbed up the wall on to the balcony and burst in through the studio door. He wanted to kill me but I just sat him down, put a microphone in front of him and he screamed: "LIFE!". You can hear this voice at the end of the track.

The right hand lense carries the experience of making the album: 'Now is the Happiest Time of Your Life' in 1976. This was a time of joyful spiritual discipline and self discovery. I had left Gong behind and had survived the hangover with a year of holistic healing in Deia. I was drug free and alchohol free and meditating daily. Every afternoon I walked the goat tracks up the mountains playing my tiny guitar and most of these new songs came to me as I walked. It was the start of a bright new cycle in my life. Gilli and I were strong together, Tali and Orlando were both at pre-school and I had found a group of talented local musiciains to work with.

The woman supporting the circle of meditators in the Deia valley represents the sacred female manifestation of the male deity above. My spiritual guides at that time were sourced from esoteric philosophies and thus religion free. The Sadhu with the long dreadlock represents one of the many Babas I had learned from on my travels.

The person in the circle bottom left represents the contemplative observer who watches and writes

Daevid Allen

PUNK ASS SCHOOLGRRL. COMMISSIONED BY ISABEL BARRE PEDERSEN.

A Saphic conversation between traditional punk philosophy and the popular punk ass schoolgirl stuffed doll.

Daevid Allen