Burgandy Viscosi has over twenty years of expertise creating fantastically vivid work designed to awaken humanity to our collective consciousness. Whereas she shows most of her work at her artwork gallery in Seattle, Washington, she additionally has painted many murals at numerous native companies and has some featured at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport and Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport.
Each artist has an origin story, and Viscosi’s is a strong one. Following the occasions of a devastating automotive accident when she was solely 20 years previous, Viscosi was unconscious for not less than 10 hours. Throughout this time, she witnessed visions that finally turned a potent supply of inspiration for her artwork.
“I had a lot data [after the accident], I really feel like many of the workings of the universe have been answered, after which [I was] simply making an attempt to determine easy methods to translate that into data that I may present to the world,” she explains. “My physique was fairly demolished, however my arms and palms have been superb. That’s actually after I began portray, after which I by no means actually seemed again. I simply saved portray. It helped heal me, after which I simply was dedicated to it from that time on.”
One major theme of the imaginative and prescient she acquired remains to be an inspiration throughout lots of her work.
“Type of the common nature of actuality—simply sort of a matrix of all present beings related to one another was so distinguished in my authentic imaginative and prescient,” Viscosi says.
Different influences come from frequent meditation and her present environment at dwelling or whereas touring.
Hashish additionally performs a component within the early levels of her artistic course of, particularly when she begins to think about the structure of a brand new piece or decide the place sure parts ought to go. Viscosi says tinctures are her consumption methodology of alternative, whether or not she’s doing yoga and meditating or working by means of easy methods to tie sure parts collectively in her work.
“Hashish is a good activator to sort of swap perspective in order that I can see perhaps a unique angle of how these items can really be included or completely different transitions,” she says. “I find it irresistible for transitionary concepts.”
Viscosi’s work are brilliantly coloured with all kinds of detailed patterns corresponding to honeycombs and geometric kinds, typically that includes people and animals, however there’s additionally a separate layer of the viewing expertise that may solely be seen by means of particular glasses.
“I exploit a expertise—it’s not the traditional 3D glasses, so should you attempt these, it’s not going to work—they’re known as Chroma Depth,” Viscosi explains. “And I exploit a shade concept (the science and artwork of how we understand shade and the visible results of how colours combine, match or distinction with one another) with these. What they do is that they put the spectrum so as. And what I do is I place issues in sure methods in sure colours and [the glasses] present depth.”
Chroma Depth was initially created for 3D web sites, however Viscosi makes use of it to present her work extra depth.
“3D web sites have been a factor for a second, and the glasses have been created for them. While you design these web sites, you utilize a sure shade concept in designing them. And that’s what is going to make it 3D, proper?” she says. “So it’s simply me utilizing that very same shade concept. And since I paint so vividly, it registers the identical as a pc display as a result of I put sharp colours subsequent to sharp colours.”
The result’s a one-of-a-kind expertise for many who cease by her gallery, the place they see her colourful shows come to life by means of a brand new lens.
“When individuals come within the gallery, I give them the glasses, after which I do a lightweight present,” she says. “So that they full-on have a psychedelic expertise, [and] I’m capable of, like, microdose individuals mainly. It’s actually fascinating to observe individuals from all walks of life are available. At first, they’re tremendous nervous, and so they’re like, ‘Oh, I don’t know if that is my factor.’ But when I can get the glasses on them, the second of suspended perception is wonderful as a result of people simply flip into kids. They’re identical to, ‘Oh, my gosh, how is that this occurring?”’
Viscosi is the previous artwork director for a Seattle-based hashish firm known as Leaph. Though the enterprise is now not in operation, she helped function quite a lot of artists throughout the globe on Leaph’s packaging. She has additionally turn into well-known within the surrounding Seattle space for selling the native artwork and hashish industries, the place she has designed artwork for the packaging of Mobius infused hashish drinks and has contributed to Artwork Hashish, which strives to advertise native artists and hashish in Washington state.
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This story was initially Up to date within the September 2022 concern of Excessive Occasions Journal.