Painted Worlds: Color and Culture in Mesoamerican art
Good Morning Space-Time & Multiverse Travelers,
Thank you so much to everyone involved in the creation of this exhibit. 
Hypno Toad sparked the idea
Yesterday, I left the digital world and ventured into reality. The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City have a very special exhibit going on right now. I'll be visiting a few times before it leaves. Painted Worlds- Color and Culture in MesoAmerican art. The Museum has been doing a great deal with expanding its exhibitions. There has been a number of pieces that I have been impressed about. All of them running with themes of a colorful world.
The Exhibits are wonderful
The Painted Worlds has me most excited. The Laud Codex is on display here. The real one! I could hardly believe my eyes. It looks new. The colors are vibrant. It's age is impressive and I would not have known it by looking at it.
The Cosmic Trees commissioned for this exhibit are beautiful. The four corners of home with the sacred pigments is break taking. Skeltons climbing the thorn tree stuck with me. But my inner goth girl was very pleased with the motifs of death and famine. I moved on to watch the video on how the commission were designed and made. I felt humbled and was moved by joy. I have zero regrets here. I'm glad I didn't ask for money. The ripple effect of my wishes is in my face. I can't look away. And I cannot deny what I'm seeing is true, good, and beautiful. Our hands are the hands of the Divine reaching across land and sea, space and time, to spread the abundance of Divine splendor. Look what we can do when we put down the BS and get it done.
The textile arts are beautiful. The corresponding video really was helpful when looking at the sampler pieces. I was surprised about the depiction of stars in the weave. Most of us depicting stars create points of light indicating rays. But in this medium and culture, stars are depicted completely differently. They look like pixelated blocks. Stars are square. I think that Aztec and Maya culture would really like Minecraft.
MLK day, I was stopped by the pop culture in high art display that I had missed. My daughter and I were shocked by the Warhol paintings. But we should not have been. Mrs. Bloch was a Warhol fan back in her day. Her portrait is on display there with the soup can. Seeing it in person, instead of online gives these pieces a different perspective. Both of us like His "Baseball" over all the other Warhols.
Then we swung down into the artist-athlete exhibit. Kansas City has some really great talent here. The cycling performance art display got me excited. This was part of that pitch package. I posited that with all the tech we have now, the museum could display performance art in this style to celebrate the FIFA World Cup coming to Kansas City. 2026 is a very important year for this city, they don't even know it. (See the thinking side quest at the bottom for other unrelated thoughts)
The jewelry exhibit with the Tiaras! You know how much I like Tiaras. I often wear a headdress of some kind. (The evolution of that was weird.) I got to see some styles and materials for future commissions that I would like to make/have. And the minute I get some money and a house that I can live in safely, I want to set up a workspace for that. I also need equipment too. And I need time...I may never get to do this. I don't know. It really comes down to the day of destiny. And it was a conversation I had with my daughter coming home from the museum.
Planned over 10 years ago
I went to great lengths to get my head on so that I could be ready for the second coming (that's a joke people) I wanted to be ready in my head and in my heart so I wouldn't blow a chance to get lifted out of Hell. And the hand that is provided to me, is a sacred hand. I didn't want that kindness to be wasted. That would have been a betrayal to him, the Divine, and to me.
I have no doubt that there are people involved wondering why the hell I would vanish for 10 years? My answer is a movie called "Death by Lightening" Becoming wealthy and powerful overnight can be devastating to one's mental health. It shatters relationships. Without fixing myself, there was a very real danger that, through my own ignorance and self-sabotage, could have it and very quickly screw it up and lose it all. That's why. I need to lead myself out of a paper bag before I can lead others out of the same paper bag. So, I left Scott in charge and walked away to pursue a lasting healing. He is a good man. And he won't leave another good man behind, even if he is a she. Scott has a good family too. They won't let him forget me or leave me behind either. I have Faith in them. Mbutu.
This art exhibit, and other things I asked for, are physical experiences that I asked for to help me heal myself and others. The world isn't something to run away from, it something that is worth running toward! Living here and now. Being here and now. Is a gift. This world is worth it. Its worth the pain and sadness. Its worth the hard work. Its worth fighting for. The Nothing will not win.
The seed of the Idea
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| ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO TOAD |
In the movie, Brother Grimm, the brothers must lick grandmother toad to navigate through an enchanted forest. Licking toads is another method our ancestors used to commune with the Divine. Is it a stretch to assume the ancient Mesoamerican's did the same thing? No stretch here. These universal customs, symbols, and ideas are all a part of the story of humanity. We are all connected by realms of spirit, and this is a sample of how. This 'how' is not dependent on what or who we define "god." There is no structure of dogma here. No book to lean into. There is no ONLY ONE GOD to fight about. Its one people with a shared history and dream for the future. This idea connects us, not separate us. This idea should be a fixed point in human Space-Time perspective. One of the ways to express that is art and the color we use to create that world together. So, glory to hypnotoad. in the future and in the past. (Now I'm laughing at what the cast of Futurama would say to this.)
That's all I have for today. I'll be going back in a week or so to look more. I have a concert in April I'm attending. The Dos Amigos tour. (I'm really grateful to be able to share these wishes.) The family will also be attending Gun'n'Roses too! I'm pretty certain I know who Robert Harrington is. So, Thanks to that hairy Butt crack I got to see Weird Al in concert. I'll fill you in as stuff happens.
Always
NOTE: Despite the administration's doing, I think FIFA 26 will be ok. It's too important for POTUS to interfere in the business surrounding the Cup. I had been on edge about the possibility of The Administration throwing ICE into our city during the World Cup due to tourism. Interference on that scale would piss off the entire world to the point in which, after his seat is over in Washington, there will be nowhere he could hide. He wouldn't be safe ever again. I'm not talking about unaliving a person, don't be ridiculous. There are far worse things to do to a person that that. Shunning. Neglect. Verbal abuse/harassment (not a single individual. when standing in the center of a room and having thousands of people line up, and each one gets to say something. who are you going to arrest? The entire country? Nope, you got to stand there on your Dias and take it) refusal of future cooperation, the feelings of powerlessness (you went from being the POTUS to being a nobody again. You had everyone bowing and jumping at your word and now not a single person will take you seriously ever again. This is why I'm certain there will be zero interference about the FIFA.
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