Theo Cedar Jones' first claim to be an artist is through his drawing, which began sometime soon after age one. He has a continuous documentation of his development drawing in pencil from his first drawings to the present. This spans a roughly fifty year period of development as a drawing artist. But it is not until around 2012-2013 that a clear breakthrough occured in the artist's style.
This breakthrough was a form of action drawing based on a drawing exercise - don't lift your pencil from the page or allow it to remain still for more than a second. This rule pre-empted deliberation, and enforced a rapidly executed spontaneity in each drawing, most of which clocked in at under sixty seconds from the beginning, to the artist deciding it is full and complete.
This is the artist's first foray into pure abstraction, as well as pieces that fill up every page completely. The pieces owe a clear homage to the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, but are possessed of perhaps clearer forms, in fact, a great abundance of what Adi Da refers to as "significant form". There is a clear influence from Adi Da's abstract and semi-abstract works as well, such as Quandra Loka, Linead, and Struwellpeter, which is not surprising given that Adi Da is Theo's Heart Master (Guru).
Swigglehorf may represent the artist's first claim to developing anything like a signature or original personal style in drawing. The lack of reference to any images of the iconic human "self" seems to harmonize with the artist's claim to have arrived at this breakthrough roughly concurrent with his awakening from the ego/self-contraction. The graceful spontaneity and freedom of line are for the artist a direct representation of the realization of consciousness and love-bliss beyond the bounds of ego/self-contraction.
Bunuelo Constantin
Naitauba, Fiji
This breakthrough was a form of action drawing based on a drawing exercise - don't lift your pencil from the page or allow it to remain still for more than a second. This rule pre-empted deliberation, and enforced a rapidly executed spontaneity in each drawing, most of which clocked in at under sixty seconds from the beginning, to the artist deciding it is full and complete.
This is the artist's first foray into pure abstraction, as well as pieces that fill up every page completely. The pieces owe a clear homage to the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, but are possessed of perhaps clearer forms, in fact, a great abundance of what Adi Da refers to as "significant form". There is a clear influence from Adi Da's abstract and semi-abstract works as well, such as Quandra Loka, Linead, and Struwellpeter, which is not surprising given that Adi Da is Theo's Heart Master (Guru).
Swigglehorf may represent the artist's first claim to developing anything like a signature or original personal style in drawing. The lack of reference to any images of the iconic human "self" seems to harmonize with the artist's claim to have arrived at this breakthrough roughly concurrent with his awakening from the ego/self-contraction. The graceful spontaneity and freedom of line are for the artist a direct representation of the realization of consciousness and love-bliss beyond the bounds of ego/self-contraction.
Bunuelo Constantin
Naitauba, Fiji
Prior Unity Temple from Is Da World 2008 at Burning Man