paint to explore the bridge between psyche and nature—where archetype, earth, and mystery meet, and where making becomes a way of belonging.
You decide who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium's Salon!
Creating paintings as medicine within inclusive, accessible spaces where viewers and art can meet as equals—free from transaction—fostering genuine connection and deepening our relationship with each other and the wider world.
Where do you find inspiration?Deep ecological history, Carl Jung depth psychology , Jung was mapping the inner landscape—looking for pattern, depth, and the hidden currents shaping what we see. Alfred North Whitehead process philosophy. Alfred North Whitehead saw reality not as a collection of static things, but as a living process of interconnected events constantly becoming and shaping one another.Gustav Klimt created luminous, ornamental paintings that fuse sensuality, symbolism, and elegance to explore intimacy.
What would you do with $25,000?What You’re Really Funding: Not paintings. Not even events. You’re funding a prototype of a different way of being together called Spirit of Place, a community-based art project exploring the living presence of place through painting and shared experience.: * Art as relationship, not object * Space as living organism, not container * People as co-creators, not audience The paintings become evidence of that process—like fossils from a living culture moment.
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