CASTILLO CALABOZO STUDIOS in Panama

First!....
THANK YOU! Corinna, Don, Melinda, Matt, Daniel, Dan, Dain, Wyckan (like I can spell it), Meredith, Chris, Jane, Josh, Canada, Panama and all you other great peeps who have made this happen.......
YOU F#$KIN' ROCK!

Castillo Calabozo Studios (that's "Castle Dungeon Studios" in English) operated by Daniel Poisson and Corinna Haight, with overwhelming support by the San Fransisco Crew, Oregon Crew and Luna's Castle, is proud to announce we are underway in artistic production.

Following Captain Morgan's plundering of the Panama Vieja (that's the original city) in 1671, stones from the ruins were used to construct the massive walls of Casco Viejo (that's the real city but not the ultra modern skyscraper city) in 1673. Luna's Castle, built in 1905, rests upon this original city wall. Castillo Calabozo Studio is the dungeon, ajoining our beautiful central courtyard directly alongside this original wall.

Panama is a place of greatly contrasted cultures and delicately intertwined lifestyles. One side of a street can be gorgeous and modern and the other side filthy and rundown. Across the street from us is an ultra modern, extremely wealthy mansion and next door to them is a multi family, ramshackled structure literally crumbling to pieces. The fruit and vegetables here are the best I've ever eaten in all my travels (sorry Genetic Modification) and yet the street vendors can literally be stenching of stomach virus.

The Panamanian people are honest, hardworking and good humoured. The more I get to know the ones I interact with daily, the more I realize I'll have to call everyone a friend.

The work I have produced so far is diverse and intentionally so. This is life. This is Panama. No 2 days are the same. I realize that although there has been such a great change in my lifestyle and surroundings, my work tends to remain similar to the many styles I have developed over the last 30 years. I feel greatly inspired to produce and take great pride in not falling into, putting myself into, being put into, or ending up in one style of classifiable work. Genre is an old over used word.


Here are the first 4 pieces done in the first 2 weeks of arrival in Panama. DOCTOR GREYSCALE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!!!!!!!! BRILLIANCE IS THE NEW DULL!


SOLD "PANAMA SELF" - 48"w X 72"t - acrylic, ink. marker on wood panel
*although this did not start out as a self portrait, it appears as thought it obviously is one, complete with "poisson" foot, Panama Canal, flowing rain, brilliant sunshine, and loco vibes!



SOLD "PURE LOVE" - 48"w X 72"t - acrylic, ink on wood panel
*Again I was just painting away and it appears this is actually Corinna when I really had no idea who she was when I started. It's amazing actually.....nearly looks photo realistic!


SOLD "PANAMA POLICIA" - 48"w X72"t - spray paint on wood panel
*I believe there to be a lot of corruption here. You can feel it. Some authority smile and some just don't risk it I think. The police do not like being photographed, but their presence is everywhere. I really wanted to do a street graph stencil piece of them however. I felt the best way to get an honest picture to work from was to ask them if I could take their picture rather than just sneaking one when they weren't looking. I thought if I went to a super seedy part of town where I would surely get mugged and beaten, hung around for a few minutes near the policia and taking pictures of the buildings, then asked them if I could take their picture, it would sure as shit shock them into a "yes" answer. This is the result...I wanted one of them playing with their handguns, but they refused to unholster them for me. This casual look is perfect and more fitting anyways.


SOLD "THE NEW PLAID" - 96"w X 48"t - acrylic, marker on wood panel
*Pure release and nothing more! All the cool kats will be wear knickers with patterns like this one day!

PEACE!

Unclassifiably Yours,
Daniel Poisson
CODE OF CREATION-owner
Castillo Calabozo Studios-producer
Follow Your Passion!

CODE OF CREATION: Last days In Ontario

CODE OF CREATION: Last days In Ontario

Last days In Ontario

Hey there! Only 4 days until we fly out from Canada to Panama and I have been thinking.
If your head is attached to someone elses, you do not possess the ability to think for yourself, or you are too comfortable to think outside any other box....DO NOT READ ON!
Man....I love ART! I can not pronounce to you the depth to which my desire to produce art has solidified in my existence. This is it!

The older I get and the more knowledge I accumulate, the greater I feel like being away. Away in my own perfect place. Utopia, it is sometimes called I am sure, but not some fake place with perfect people and only good sense. I mean this in no negative ways to the people who understand me or love me. I mean this in no negative way to people who don't understand or don't try to "get it". It's just that I read a lot. I think a lot. I consume newspapers, books, literature, manuals, periodicals, magazines, brochures, signs etc. etc. I watch people. I listen, selectively sometimes, but I do listen. What I see and what I hear are not overly stimulating to the creative mind. The older I become the greater I understand myself, feel wonderful about it and struggle with the acceptance of those people, places, ideas, and beliefs so skewed towards......TV....let's just call it......if you get what I'm saying you get it. It not just "TV".

Like how did we ever come to the point where gnomes, trolls and elves no longer exist?

Since when does energy come from water and water generates money and only that?
Where have the spirits gone? Why are people complaining about everything? With only one mouth and two ears, shouldn't we be smarter than we are? Spiritually. Shouldn't we be hearing and actually understanding everything we complain about? What have we done to make each other complain so much and go so far in the wrong direction?
What about the individual? What about silence? What about being comfortable alone? What about freedom? What makes so many want to adversely affect so many others? Or do we see it?
Michael Franti gets it. When the music ends why is the silence not heard as clearly as the musical sound itself? Where has all the passion gone? Not the passion to make money or get something from someone else. Not the passion to take what one feels they deserve. Not the passion to "succeed" in comparison to the next.

I mean the passion to love. The passion to create without changing others. The passion to be confident....alone and move others. The passion to be. The passion to understand.

Be passionate. Love yourself.
Love those who love themselves.
Teach those who do not love how to love....something. ANYTHING! Anything positive
Try!
Try your best.
Give when you do not want to give and take when you need to.
Be the best....your best. Think of being the best.
Work hard at whatever you do.
Respect everything
Protect your love
Watch out for Mother nature
Dream
small
Dream
BIG!
Dare.......
Think for yourself
question authority!
Expect nothing
Appreciate everything
Be yourself
Follow Your Passion!!!

This isn't where you want to be. A broken warrior is a dead warrior.
PEACE!