What is the visionary realm?
The visionary realm embraces the entire spectrum of imaginal spaces – from heaven to hell, from the infinitude of forms to formless voids. The psychologist James Hillman calls it the imaginal realm. Poet William Blake called it the divine imagination. The aborigines call it the dreamtime; and Sufis call it alam al-mithal. To Plato, this was the realm of the ideal archetypes. The Tibetans call it the sambhogakaya – the dimension of inner richness. Theosophists refer to the astral, mental, and nirvanic planes of consciousness. Carl Jung knew this realm as the collective symbolic unconscious. Whatever we choose to call it, the visionary realm is the space we visit during dreams and altered or heightened states of consciousness.
- Alex Grey
Louis Dyer is a professional artist who explores and expresses the visionary state, his source of inspiration and images manifest from his awe inspiring lucid dreams, altered states of consciousness and meditative practices.
Painting offers Louis the chance to make his intangible perceived images more concrete in this reality and existence. He prefers to approach most of his work in a digital format, but is also a skilled traditional painter using watercolours/acrylics/oils.
This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks. Each art print is listed by sheet size and features a minimum one-inch border.
