RESTORE ARTS FUNDING NOW!

DAMN RIGHTS IT MATTERS! IF YOU ARE AN ARTIST OR ATTEND ANY SORT OF THEATRE, MOVIE, PLAY, BAND, PERFORMANCE OR EVEN SO MUCH AS LOOK AT A PIECE OF DESIGN OR COLOUR, YOU BEST PAY ATTENTION!

Everyone reads, books written by writers…creative writers. People buy clothing with patterns and designs, all made by artists. Old men widdle sticks and old ladies knit tea cozzies….they are artists. It helps calm life and keep sanity close.  Many people are artists and for some twisted reason others refuse to accept this because of their precluded stigma about who or what an artist is. Everyone goes to plays, theatre, a movie, a festival or something similar throughout the year. These are all artists. Some people such as myself participate in many of these from both the audience and participant side with little or no funding at all. It’s hard enough, but art is what we do, so we do it! If you are an audience member at any point…you are an integral part of the arts and must support what you are buying or watching. That band on stage while you drink your martini?.....that's ART!  Some people such as myself feel worth being alive on this planet, partly because of the ability and support we receive through the “arts”. Some of us become ill, suffer depression, mental illness, loneliness and so on if we are not able to function effectively through the arts. For everyone like me who has some issues and finds the balance in life through the arts, there are many who can not or will not be brave enough to stand up and tell it this way. Removing funding from the arts is worse than or at least equivalent to cuts to education and health care as ultimately, they are tied as one. Cutting arts funding is refusing to acknowledge our future and our children’s future and well-being.
Much Love
RESTORE ARTS FUNDING NOW!

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IT'S A MEAT GANG!

I was messing around with the concept of transfer from one surface to another using fluid mediums....if you know what I mean...what happened was that I started a gang. Yes, a gang!
This is not your ordinary gang.   There are seven exclusive members....the "seven deadly grins".   If gangs aren't for you, then please don't read on....IT's A MEAT GANG!

This is "Peppered Clit Chicken", he's the leader,  run's the show.

These are his three main boyz...

 

That's "Henchman"...

"Lynchman".....

And this is "Doucheman"....

 

This here is "Keep Six"...

 

And this is "Keep Nine"

Together Keep Six and Keep Nine make a great 69!...

 

And this beauty here,  she's "The Prize!"

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE!

The harder the cock the tighter the pussy

and this meat gang means it.

Don't mess with gangs!

IT JUST MIGHT BE....THE MEAT GANG!

A MONUMENTAL DREAM

I have relocated from Whistler to Vancouver after 7 years in the coastal mountains. I have set up my studio space in my suite for now and will be exploring options in the coming months to acquire a proper production facility somewhere in Vancouver.

The following pieces of work are something a little smaller, more affordable and more intimate for those who appreciate something more subtle, calming and unsaturated with colour. They were produced after a dream I had about the future.

Each piece is watercolour, acrylic, ink and graphite on bristol board. They are all 11"X14", framed in beautiful one inch black frames, with single layer matting and glass. Each piece is ready-to-hang complete with wire and hand-signed. "Mother of Rebirth" and "Mother of Initial Rebirth" are 16"x20" on stretched canvas........ENJOY!!!!

"Mother of Initial Rebirth" - 16" X 20" SOLD


"Mother of Rebirth" - 16" X 20"


"Monumental Female" - 11" X 14"


"Monumental Creativity" - 11" X 14"


"Monumental Atmosphere" - 11" X 14"


"Monumental Canada" - 11" X 14"


"Monumental Universe" - 11" X 14"


"Mother of Re-transformation" - 11" X 14"


"After the Netherworld" - 11" X 14"


"MIND' is an illusory outgrowth of basic cerebral processes. It is like a tumor. It comprises all the random, uncontrolled thoughts that bubble into awareness from the subconscious. Consciousness is not the mind; awareness is not the mind; attention is not the mind. Mind is an obstruction, an aggravation. It is a kind of evolutionary mistake in the human being, a primal weakness in the human experiment. I have no use for the mind."
---Dan Millman - Way of the Peaceful Warrior--

Thank You for your time......Much love!
Daniel

LUNA'S CASTLE RANKED TOP 10 IN THE WORLD!!!

Luna's Castle in Panama City has been ranked by Trip Advisor in the Top 10 Places to Stay in the World for Under $19. Luna's Castle is a beautiful, oceanside hostel offering dorms and private rooms, a stainless steel chef-designed kitchen, free internet, big screen movie theatre, hammock breezeway, standing bar, excursion organization and tonnes of artwork among many many other great things.

Please see this link to the NY Times Article in their In Transit section.
http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/travel-deals-10-hotel-under-19/

and for more information about Luna's Castle itself!.....
http://www.lunascastlehostel.com/

CONGRATULATIONS GUYS! YOU REALLY DO ROCK! NICE WORK and ALL THE BEST!

PEACE!
dan

BC ROCKS!!!!!

The Okanagan Cherry picking team - Thanks everyone.....you are all awesome people

Well, what a freakin' summer....so far!!
Been gone awhile, but still managed to produce some artworks on the road.
I have always been one to throw myself out of my own loop and never be afraid of change.
I fear those who fear. I fear nothing really, because ultimately, there is no future that I can predicted; only search for. I firmly believe in routine, but my routine usually tends to be the actual uncontrolled or lack of routine that brings me the best results. The flux of movement, the alteration of place, the desire for the unknown.

So early this summer, when the loop had to be broken, I decided to take the summer and head to the Kootenays of British Columbia for some far out, off track, way gone fishing, camping, exploring, gold panning, business contacting, proposal writing, searching and living. My friend Phil mentioned while out there I should try picking cherries for some cash.

WOOOOOOW! There's something I have never thought of, or done. So I did it. Why not?
It didn't take up my whole summer, but it definitely added some zest.

Let me tell you, it's a strange, yet incredibly awesome job. Never would I ever have imagined I would be willing to climb up and down ladders with a 25 pound basket starting at 5AM, 7 days a week. Being so far from any concept of employment I have ever considered, I learned that I actually loved it. We finished work every day at 11AM. The rest of the days were spent swimming, tubing down rivers, gold panning, cliff jumping, suntanning, reading, studying, driving, and of course napping.

I met some incredibly smart people and some incredibly douchebagged people. Some days were so beautiful, the lake 5 minutes away was too much effort. There were massive forest fires and torrential rains, gale force winds and blazing suns, full double rainbows and 16" trout.

The harvest season came to an early end this year as the rains came so hard for days and split and rot the entire crops. No matter the circumstances or trail of events this summer I conclude I will always be willing to follow this routine......the lack of routine......it brings life!!!

I am now in Vancouver re-establishing my artistic venture and Corinna is attending photography school. Vancouver is now our home base.
Looking North towards Revelstoke off the east side of....Mt Mackenzie

Fresh work- 3 gloss coats of marine resin over acrylic on wood panel - $3000.00

This fire west of Okanagan Lake, north of Kelowna nearly drove us out....the smoke...man.....the breathing.....

It started small........

And ended massive.....lasting almost 2 weeks.

This was the first time in my life, along with a few others, that we saw a full arc double rainbow. 2 full ground to ground arcs.

Thank You for your time and PEACE!
Daniel

"FULL CIRCLE" MURAL PROJECT COMPLETE AT WHISTLER BC CANADA

Photography courtesy Bruce Rowles Photography



Photography courtesy the artists


Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Daniel Poisson or Corinna Haight
email: codeofcreation@gmail.com or h8mtn@yahoo.com
blog: codeofcreation.blogspot.com
websites: danielpoisson.com
corinnahaight.com

"FULL CIRCLE" MURAL PROJECT COMPLETE AT WHISTLER BC CANADA

Whistler, June 2, 2009 - Code of Creation kingpins, Daniel Poisson and Corinna Haight, are finished painting Whistlers 2nd large mural; the first painted by Chili Thom and Stan Matwychuk. This project, commissioned by the RMOW (Resort Municipality of Whistler) and the Public Art Committee is a gigantic, super vibrant 95' x 6', two-piece mural on the Blackcomb Way Bridge underpass in Whistler, BC, Canada. Whistler is a mountain biking, winter sports and outdoor enthusiasts mecca, North America's #1 ski resort and mountain host to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Recent travel abroad and life in Whistler gave Daniel and Corinna the unique vision for this new and necessary mural project titled: "FULL CIRCLE". This mural is visible to the public for everyone to enjoy!

Sure to captivate the viewer and leave a positive, lasting impression in the minds of the observer, the "Full Circle" mural incorporates vivid elements of nature from the highest peaks to the deepest oceans. Imagine being perched atop a snow-covered rocky outcropping, basking in your glorious state of wonder and fulfillment. Set out in front, is the view out across the magnificent Whistler valley, overtop the towering vertical peaks, vast mountain ranges and luscious evergreens, beyond the tranquil, glacier-fed lakes, through the motionless rocky bluffs, across the seas shoreline into the weather-hammered, adventure-drawing seas and into the depths of the deep, dark ocean where the largest marine mammals on earth reside. This leads you back to the shoreline and into the valleys again, up to the mountains where you have begun your awe-inspiring, life changing vision; having now come: "FULL CIRCLE". Keeping with the innocence of life itself, in it’s truest form, the mural is brilliant in hue saturated in colour and child-like in content”.

Corinna Haight has produced her own art and music event in Whistler, called Diversity, organizing over 30 artists and numerous bands. As well, Corinna has participated in group art shows including Artrageous along with selling and displaying her work at Fitzsimmons Pub and Cafe de la Place. She took the first place prize during the Masterpiece In Motion global snowboard design competition in 2007. Recently Corinna and Daniel were commissioned in Panama City, Panama to produce artwork for Luna's Castle, a new, world-class hostel. She produced over 70 pieces in total, now on display.

Daniel Poisson, producing 50 pieces in Panama, also has a long track record in the arts. Having been called "Whistlers Own Picasso" leaves Daniel with the passion, drive and desire to fulfill his dream of painting...forever. His parents and teachers collected his art from the time he was born. Daniel has donated dozens of art pieces to charities as well as put private collections in place around the world. Daniel is well known in the Sea to Sky region for his large, bold live paintings at festivals such as TWSSF, Artrageous, BlindMute Productions shows and Whistler Street Entertainment. His abstract African tribal pieces have become well recognized and collected, although his work is tremendously diverse and ever changing.

Daniel Poisson and Corinna Haight would like to thank each and every person who assisted us including:
Craig Ross and crew, Christian Carter and John Lawson, at CR Contracting
Auli Parviainen
Jane Roberts at Incognito Event Décor
Dave Petko and Randy Smith at Blindmute Productions
Dave and Laura Kinney at Mountain Paint
Eddie at Sherwin Williams
IGA Marketplace
Juan and Gillian Pineda
Esther Searle at Garibaldi Graphics
Luna’s Castle Family in Panama
Merlin’s Staff
Diamond Doug’s DJ Services
Bruce Rowles Photography
All Whistler Artists and Musicians


Photography courtesy Bruce Rowles Photography


Photography courtesy Bruce Rowles Photography


Photography courtesy Bruce Rowles Photography


Photography courtesy Bruce Rowles Photography


Photography courtesy Bruce Rowles Photography


Photography courtesy Bruce Rowles Photography


Photography courtesy Bruce Rowles Photography

PEACE!!!!!!!!!

17 17 17 - 2 Human Weeks

Hello,
I am producing back in Canada. This is a long, important letter for those interested, please sit down and read it.

There are many images at the bottom, but please read this first, otherwise it's only a half-truth.
You are the first to see them and they are now all for sale, ranging from $61.00 to $771.00.

Daniel John Poisson-artist
Presents: “17-17-17-TWO HUMAN WEEKS”


Soul (sohl)–noun
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.

Conscious (kon-shuh s)–adjective
aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings,
fully aware of or sensitive to something (often fol. by of), having the mental faculties, fully active, known to oneself, aware of what one is doing, deliberate, intentional.

Life (lahyf)–noun
a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul: eternal life,
the general or universal condition of existence, any specified period of animate existence, the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.

April 7th 2009

My name is Daniel John Poisson. I am 32 years old now. I am an artist. I paint mostly. Sometimes I get into these states of productivity where I feel I cannot stop and should not stop. So I don’t. It used to drive me mad and surely annoy those around me. People continually tell me I need a job so I can support myself, however, they do not understand what I feel. I just cannot do it. After sometime now, I refuse to give up this intense focus and realize something magnificent is occurring here. I struggle. Financially. Change is important. I feel there is a massive energy inside my soul slowly boiling over into the world and getting ready to explode. I love this feeling more than any feeling I have ever had. I have found something in painting that cannot and has not been found throughout my entire life. I refuse to give this up. If I do stop, I immediately feel that I am not fulfilling something. This “something” I can not really explain, however, for some time now, over the last few years, I have not been able to remove myself from my work of creating art. I cannot seem to work for someone else at a so-called “dayjob” as I am unable to focus enough attention away from my higher mental state going directly into my art, to provide that person with the effort they deserve. I need to produce. It’s the most important thing to my conscience. I need to think. I need to expand my conscious thought pattern as far into the universe as life's interruptions around me will allow. I feel a lack of energy and a breakdown in my constitution if I am not maximizing my productivity.

I originally started this condition, with images that were very messy, abstract, out-of-control some may say, however, very well intentioned for the greater good of our species. I use colour, and I love life. I have allowed my work to take it’s own direction, and although I often begin a piece after a solid concept, idea or image forms inside my mind, that initial image has rarely been the outcome in the final products. My work falls into no genre or style. I prefer that. What is “grafitti”? Why do people paint “lowbrow”? etc. etc. I paint. I create. That’s all. I copy no one, strive to be no one, idolize no one, and feel the need to just create, everything.

There is no desire to copy. There is no focus on certain methods or structure. My work ranges from fast scribbles to detailed ink designs, massive thrown-paint abstracts to maticulous renderings of tribal faces and clean lines, unidentifiably separate from one colour to the next. I like it this way. I don’t know why it’s this way. I let it be.

Recently, in the last year, I have begun working with the instruments of Sacred Geometry. Compass and Square only. Design work interests me. Graphic imagery is fascinating. I love shape. Contour is underlying in everything. I started to feel very calm and focused on a recent trip to visit my brother in Spring 2008 in Revelstoke BC. While there for 2 weeks, I completed over 10 perfect, symmetrical, interwoven images on paper working off one central point. These images all radiate from the centre. I have not yet discovered where these images come from inside me but they are seen, felt, heard, and original. I have been creating these images ever since and now this concept has transpired into a world of it’s own.

“THE PEACE VORTEX”

This concept brings me balance. It focuses me. There is something within these central images that draws my soul in and cleans it up and allows it to function efficiently. The perpetuation of creativity within this concept of the Peace Vortex has evolved into colour images, larger-formats, and multi-media, heavy-process creation. They are beautiful, geometric, and captivating visually. I feel they mean something. I have not figured out what exactly.

Recently, I was fortunate enough to travel to Central America for 6 months. The first three months were on a painting contract in Panama where I had complete and total freedom of expression to paint whatever I wanted, wished, or felt. I made a complete mess. I worked slow, worked incredibly fast. Painted abstract as large as 8 feet and spray painted stenciled images of presidential police officers I photographed. I got political, sarcastic, loving and angry. I flipped out, worked in a trance, got drunk, and threw paint. I smiled, laughed, yelled, danced and went free. I kept my nose 4 inches from the canvas for hours at a time in the same spot, as close to meditation as possible and everything in between and outside this explanation. It was an exercise in creativity from the beginning. I have no style. I paint feelings. I paint love. I paint what matter to help this world. I learned a lot. I learned so much in that time that I learned too much. I am still putting it all together.

After this adventure in creativity, I backpacked north from Panama to Southern Mexico, drawing along the way, building things in random places, and riding with the locals. I was searching. I used the next two months to bring personal awareness to my misunderstood creative situation I’ve mentioned. This is my conclusion, and although I need to survive financially, maybe I will never extend this justification to the proper plane of understanding towards you. I love ART! I refuse to stop and so does my soul. Unfortunately, this mindset has dug so deep into my constitution that, although being very open-minded, intelligent, aware and rational, I will not accept doing anything other than allowing myself the ability to function within my mind, body and souls own productive parameters. I am driven. I work long hours. I stay ahead of my own game. I’m organized, honest and dedicated. I HAVE TO CREATE! I feel an energy that I must harness. I need tojustify this feeling to myself before I can move backwards, because right now and for the last time period, forward is all I see.

Upon arriving back in Canada after this life-changing journey, I was eager to set up my work area and get creating. I had the basic idea of where I wanted to start image-wise. I began painting on March 17th 2009, after setting up, my studio, purchasing many more supplies than I could afford, and having my work space set-out ready to go at it. I created this series with only the initial image in mind and allowed the series to take it’s own direction. In fact, I had no intention of creating a series like this, but only to get a few pieces done for some upcoming shows. Now, it seems silly to break up these completed pieces into individual paintings.
I had to purchase materials nearly every day to ensure the vision was correct as it came to my mind. I worked on as many as 5 pieces at one time. This series has many amazing things that came to light after I went to bed after what is now to be the final piece in this series of 17 pieces. I worked everyday with little interruption for as long as 17 hours straight and as little as 6 hours.

This series has come to be titled “17-17-17-Two Human weeks”.
I began the first piece on March 17th titled “Bang!. I felt the last piece, titled “Mother of God”, the 17th piece completed was a fitting place to stop, which happened to be 17 days later. 17-17-17. I am not sure how this happened, but it’s a prime number divisible only by itself and “1”, which is also an important number that I have utilized repeatedly in my past works.

The first piece “Bang!”, conjuring thoughts of noise, or the Big Bang, initiation of life, is the messiest piece and the biggest. The last piece “Mother of God” is tribal, loving, and very clean and precise. All the images in between this have a natural flow of design from one image to the next that really makes sense upon analysis. It’s all build upon Peace and transpires from earth, peoples and respect. This is an ongoing theme and underlying importance in all my work, however, a series has never come out so perfectly with so little pre-conceived intentions.

So here is “17-17-17-TWO HUMAN WEEKS”…as the pieces were completed and signed first to last.

PEACE!
Daniel John Poisson
“BANG!”
48” X 48”
acrylic, resin on wood panel

“Rollin Hard”
48” X 48”
acrylic, varnish on wood panel

“Whistler PEACE 1”
24” X 24”
acrylic, paper on wood panel

“Whistler PEACE 2”
24” X 24”
acrylic, paper on wood panel

“Whistler PEACE 3”
24” X 24”
acrylic, paper on wood panel

“Whistler PEACE 4”
24” X 24”
acrylic, paper on wood panel

“PEACE Radiant 1”
24” X 24”
acrylic, spray paint on wood panel

“PEACE Radiant 2”
24” X 24”
acrylic, spray paint on wood panel

“PEACE Radiant -Portal to Life”
10” X 10”
Lazertran Transfer, Varathane on wood

“PEACE Radiant -Triple Threat”
10” X 10”
Lazertran Transfer, Varathane on wood

“Tribal Freedom”
10” X 10”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Varathane on wood

“Wargod Mother “
5” X 6”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Varathane on wood

“Principle Warrior”
11” X 15”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Varathane on wood

“Fractured Life”
10” X 10”
Acrylic, Ink, Varathane on wood

“Respect Your Peoples”
7” X 11”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Ink, Varathane on wood

“Save Yourself First”
7” X 11”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Ink, Varathane on wood

“Mother of GOD”
20” X 30”
Acrylic, Varnish on wood panel



PEACE!
Daniel John Poisson
Code of Creation
w: www.danielpoisson.com
e: codeofcreation@gmail.com
c: 604-902-3474