Ingress Vortices
Ingress Vortices is a visionary art symbiosis between Ziimina and Vytko Icaro. It spiralled into existence during late summer of 2014, at the time when the pair united their creative energies and started crafting visions together.
Ziimina studied art at the University Marc Bloch in Strasbourg (France) where she specialised in painting and photography and graduated in 2000. She moved to London in 2004. Aside from painting she started inscribing small books with hieroglyphics at rapid pace with an aim to enter the “twilight state” (hypnagogic) where the mind is finally subdued and landscapes of higher states of consciousness become visible.
In 2007 she met A. Dumarey and together they collaborated under the name of VA when living on Fish Island in the art community based in Hackney Wick, London. They took part of Hackney Wicked Festival in the summer 2009. In 2010 one of their works (Elements, 4m x 2m) was shortlisted for the art contest "Canvas Collectie" in Belgium and was exhibited at the Beaux Arts Museum in Bruxelles during the summer of 2010. The two artists went separate ways and Ziimina carried on inscribing her books, as well as, integrating her glyphs within larger pieces, sometimes depicting leafy and abstract landscapes such as "Essential" (shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2014) and "Sophie's Garden Summertime".
After travelling through Chile and Peru in 2012 Vytko Icaro reached “The Temple Of The Way Of Light” in the Amazon rainforest where he experienced the powerful and life changing effects of Ayahuasca jungle brew. During the stay he translated his experience into the mixture of drawings, paintings and poetry, all fragments and impressions reflecting visions and insights he had at the time of the ceremonies. Now they dwell in two books “The Book Of Portals, Souls And Immortals” and “Hieroglyphs From The Gods”.
Ziimina and Vytko Icaro continue on the quest to expand consciousness, explore shamanic realms seeking answers to the question, in which extend art could, not only be a reflection of the Vision, but concurrently be part of the Vision itself.
Ziimina studied art at the University Marc Bloch in Strasbourg (France) where she specialised in painting and photography and graduated in 2000. She moved to London in 2004. Aside from painting she started inscribing small books with hieroglyphics at rapid pace with an aim to enter the “twilight state” (hypnagogic) where the mind is finally subdued and landscapes of higher states of consciousness become visible.
In 2007 she met A. Dumarey and together they collaborated under the name of VA when living on Fish Island in the art community based in Hackney Wick, London. They took part of Hackney Wicked Festival in the summer 2009. In 2010 one of their works (Elements, 4m x 2m) was shortlisted for the art contest "Canvas Collectie" in Belgium and was exhibited at the Beaux Arts Museum in Bruxelles during the summer of 2010. The two artists went separate ways and Ziimina carried on inscribing her books, as well as, integrating her glyphs within larger pieces, sometimes depicting leafy and abstract landscapes such as "Essential" (shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2014) and "Sophie's Garden Summertime".
After travelling through Chile and Peru in 2012 Vytko Icaro reached “The Temple Of The Way Of Light” in the Amazon rainforest where he experienced the powerful and life changing effects of Ayahuasca jungle brew. During the stay he translated his experience into the mixture of drawings, paintings and poetry, all fragments and impressions reflecting visions and insights he had at the time of the ceremonies. Now they dwell in two books “The Book Of Portals, Souls And Immortals” and “Hieroglyphs From The Gods”.
Ziimina and Vytko Icaro continue on the quest to expand consciousness, explore shamanic realms seeking answers to the question, in which extend art could, not only be a reflection of the Vision, but concurrently be part of the Vision itself.
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