PANAMA COMMISSION COMPLETE!

It's CRAZY, but truly amazing that this place exists!

LUNA'S CASTLE is finally a visual art gallery, and from what we have been told by travelers, one of, if not the best hostel ever visited! So if your ever in Panama....please check it out!
All the paintings are complete and hanging on the walls in every room, dorm, common area, hallway, nook and cranny etc. In all, there are over 130 paintings from Corinna and I ranging in size from a few inches up to 4 feet by 8 feet. The concept from the beginning was to plaster the walls with as much work as possible and as good a quality as possible with the most diversity as possible. We've done that, aside from the new private rooms that have only 1 large piece in each room to keep them a bit more calming.

From the time you walk in the door, you are greeted with art on the walls.....and it never stops!

Corinna even made sure the lighting was right with custom panels on every light throughout the Castle.

While I recycled some of the waste to hang these garbage girls around the place.

Luna's Castle is massive, 4 floors, and complete with a full chef kitchen, movie theatre, 2 large common areas, a 20+ seating dining hall, overhead balcony, hammock breezeway, open courtyard, dorm rooms, private rooms and soon... a standing only bar in our dungeon. In total, there are 16 different accommodation areas, and Corinna custom made a different, hand-painted signs for each and every room.Here are a few pictures to give you an idea of what is going on here overall.

Luna's Castle from the street-Panama City Panama.

The view from the balcony out the front towards the city centre. I wake up to this!

The main common area with internet, couches, balcony, some of Corinna's best work ever and musical instruments.

The chill out room with balcony, hammocks, couches and a lot of my personal funk factor.

One of many hallways throughout the castle.

The main stairway leading to the top floor.

The main hallway upstairs in the castle.

The main entry way across from reception.

It is hard to truly capture the scope of this project as it's such a gigantic place.


As well, here are the last 5 paintings I completed in the last 2 weeks.


"ROBERTS SON STEPHEN MARLEY" - 60" x 48" - Acrylic and marker on wood

"MAN ALIEN" - 96" X 48" - Acrylic and spray paint on wood

"THE DUSTY FOOT PHILOSOPHER-K'NAAN" -60" X 48"- Acrylic and marker on wood

"BARACK H. OBAMA-Hope for America" 72" X 48" - Acrylic on wood
Painted the day of the January 20th, 2009 Inaugeration- 16 hours straight.

"THE GHANDI LAMA" - 72" x 48" - Acrylic and marker on wood

THANK YOU everybody for your support and taking the time to see my work!
See you soon
LOVE,
Daniel

CODE OF CREATION STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!!

Hello,
Corinna and I are back at Luna's Castle in Panama. Two more weeks of painting after riding chicken buses from here all the way north to Northern Guatemala and Southern Mexico over the last 2.5 months. What an amazing time beyond any attempt to even explain. Anyone who knows the way we do things will surely imagine where we went and how we went about it!!!! Truly epic, inspirational, random, loco, motivating, and powerful!

I spent some of my time creating art with the supplies I carried with me, along with garbage, scrap and random things I found along the way. I did not photograph everything I did, however, some of the creative outlets included: illustrations, paintings, graffiti, wood sculptures, rock carvings, seed, shell and rock collecting, knot tying, photography, visualizing and contemplation.

Here are a few of the things done.......

"SIGHTS FELT" - illustrated by candlelight on the shore of Lago de Atitlan, Guatemala, a volcanic crater lagoon

"SIGHTS SEEN" Also, illustrated by candlelight on the shore of Lago de Atitlan, Guatemala, a volcanic crater lagoon

"IGUANA" illustrated in the middle of nowhere, mountainous jungles of Guatemala

"HORSE MOUNTED WARRIOR IN THE SKY" Illustrated in El Salvador


"DANCER" Illustrated in El Salvador

"RUNNING MAN" Illustrated in EL Salvador


"BUTTERFLIES AND BALANCING ACTS" Illustrated laying in a hammock near the beach in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica

"UNTITLED" Painted under the sun on a mountaintop avocado farm overlooking a deep valley and 3 volcanoes...1 active and spewing smoke and rock.

"UNTITLED" Painted under the sun on a mountaintop avocado farm overlooking a deep valley and 3 volcanoes...1 active and spewing smoke and rock.

"CODE" Of Creation - marked in dry mud with a stick at a waterfall in the jungle hills of El Salvador

"CODE" Of Creation - written on the road in the mountains of El Salvador using pink rock. I actually left this 1 foot tall mark along with gigantic 3 foot pink hearts every few feet for over a kilometer.

"A ONE EARTH CONTINUATION" Painted and left on a wall in Leon Nicaragua


Hand-carved faces made from volcanic pumice collected in crater lagoons throughout Nicaragua. I left many of these throughout Central America in random places, but did not document them all.

Hand-carved faces made from volcanic pumice collected in crater lagoons throughout Nicaragua


"HOMBRE VACA" Cow Man...Painted as a gift for my Spanish teacher in Grenada Nicaragua. We found "hombre rana" frog man, in the dictionary, so I asked him if there is an animal-man for every animal. It's our joke I guess...


"CODE" Of Creation - written curbside in Nicaragua using a piece of charcoal I found in the gutter.


"ONE LONE SURFER" Painted on the beach in Nicaragua


"TRIBES IN PEACE" Painted on the beach in Nicaragua

As well, I am setting up a solo public art exhibit here in Panama.

Who: Daniel Poisson
What: "UNSEEN: Injustice at the Forefront"
When: January 26th 2009
Where: Central Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Casco Viejo, Panama City, Panama
Why: Freedom

Here's what happened on our trip....
Baskets on heads
kids selling gum
other kids selling cigarettes
other kids selling pot
farmers filthy
dingos fighting
cocks clucking
fireworks exploding at 4AM
cows on the beach
babies with no shoes
buses with no class
men with less
old folks with no teeth
cathedrals crumbling
sketchy people watching for anything LOOSE!
descending massive waterfalls
diving cliffs
surfing overheads
flowers everywhere
comfort no where
thieves all over
smiles ear to ear
friendly HOLA. Buenos!
money collectors not providing change
welcoming folk guiding us to buses
kids hanging on
V W size pot holes
Drivers conversating behind themselves
Passing on mountain corners
mud houses
and sticks too
coffee plantations
NO ENGLISH
rice and beans
more arroz y gallo pinto
y pollo
women yelling in our face selling ¨stuff¨ on the buses
babies naked
different currency in every country
money changers with 6 inch stacks
waving it in the air
fruit stands
big hearts
even bigger poverty
underwear stands
hair clip stands
political signage everywhere
che guivera is a god
so is the colour red
Volcanoes surround us all the time
Animals animals and more animals
Sellers selling things you wish for
And others selling things you wish you never need
Grafitti artists lending hands towards neighbourhood beautification projects
And...........A LOT OF LOVE!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO VIEW MY WORK
PEACE
See you soon
Daniel Poisson

3 MONTHS LATER!

Mission...ALMOST...Complete.
Yahoo!...ALMOST Travel time!

Corinna and I are in the finishing stages of work here at Luna's Castle. 4 days left...for now.
Looks like we will be flown back to Panama City from Guatemala in January for a couple weeks to provide the finishing touches on a major renovation, before we fly home in Early February.
We are in the midst of framing and hanging the last handful of pieces, solidifying our promotional materials, documenting all aspects and tidying up loose ends.
What a trip!
Here's a picture of me out in the street showing the Presidential Policia some of the paintings I did of them. I had some help hauling them off the walls and out into the middle of the road for them to see. At first they thought I was crazy for sure, but they couldn't stop looking at them. Alexis' smile tells it all. At least I didn't get arrested...again.
Thanks for the photo skills Corinna.
And YES, that is a Whistler Podium Auto Detail shirt I have on.
Luna's Castle is a truly amazing place, and when you travel throughout Central America, you will undoubtedly here stories about how people come here and stay a while. Many people overnighting it, end up here for a week or more. I get a little wild sometimes and the 160 vodka jello shooters I made the other night to toss around for good measure, certainly don't hurt the fun-o-meter, not to mention it's so damn hot, everyones nearly naked!

What Luna's lacks in a natural outback setting, it makes up for with gigantic space to move around, a jungle courtyard, lazy hammock breezeway, big screen movie theatre, free internet, timely laundry service, new guitars, bad ass art, panoramic ocean and city views and super rad vibes. Panama City is a modern hub and great jumping off point to South America and many awesome surf locations, islands and jungle treks.
Check out these little cuties we found on Isla Taboga, a 45 minute ferry ride from here.
Green and Black Poison Dart Frog
Yeah! The ones the natives used the poison from to tip their blowdart points for hunting.

Fiddler Crab
These little guys are reeeeeaaaaal darn fast and beautiful saturated reds, purples and yellows.

Central American Smooth Gecko
We found this guy in an old Army War Bunker on a hike. He's 10 inches long!

Redrump Tarantula
Actually....a little bigger than the size of my palm. On the trail at our feet.

Pictures of the finished project will be posted very soon, so in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this new work from the last 2 weeks.

"Black Love" - 24'x24" - Acrylic on wood panel - SOLD
Love is important.

"Range of 1000 Faces" - 72"x48" - Acrylic on wood panel - SOLD
What I think it is like back in BC right now.

"Island Pass of 1000 Traces" - 72"x48" - Acrylic on wood panel - SOLD
What the BC Coast would look like.


"Valley of 1000 Races" - 48"x36" - Acrylic on wood panel - SOLD
What the mountains look like.

"My Pirahna" - 48"x36" - Acrylic on wood panel - SOLD
Beware of monkey wrench throwers, Karmas a bitch!

"Lacking DMT in my Dream" - 24"x24" - Acrylic on wood panel - SOLD
The mind is a terrible thing to waste.


"Let it Flow, Let Yourself Go!" - 36"x48" - Acrylic on wood panel - SOLD
Confront your demons, before they confront you!


"Green Without Envy" - 9"x12" - Acrylic on wood panel - SOLD
Everyone is different...real different.


"Gold Love" - 24"x24" - Acrylic on wood panel - SOLD
LOVE!

Thank You for taking the time to view my work and read my story.

Daniel

A DIVERSE PORTFOLIO

Be careful what you paint for................
When Realism is boring...
When Impressionism is unimpressed...
When Graffiti is shit...
When Lowbrow isn't soooo cool anymore...
And Nobrow never made it...
When Shepard Fairey rises from the dead...
When Juxtapoz is read by ceo's of The World Bank...
When Street Art is everywhere...
When Banksy is a gay martian...
When Abstract is totally untalented...

Heck!...he said to me..."ANYONE CAN THROW PAINT AT A BLOODY CANVAS!"...
I responded, "I agree...but the difference is...I just did...you didn't!"...
I had to repeat myself to him more than once until he got it.
He was pissed, but he heard what I said and really understood.
He just didn't see why, but now he did.
By the end of the conversation, he thanked me. REALLY THANKED ME!
He never looked at art that way before.
For his first 35 years of his life, he missed the point of art.
That's the difference...
I JUST DID!..YOU DIDN'T...an artist knows and does what he does because "I JUST DID"
So when all those genres, categories, trends, classes, qualities, styles, subjects, directions, and reasons for art, have been rehashed, redone, overworked, undervalued, overvalued, undermined, and promoted to shit, stolen, borrowed, copied, defaced, hated, loved, bought, sold, and burned...
I'll be proud to say I have NO STYLE...NO GENRE...
and ONE REASON...
PEACE!

"WORLD PEACE"-OCT 3rd 2008 - 36"x48" - SOLD
This painting was done as the global economy began to collapse, in hopes that the 75 + people from over 16 countries who signed it, could maybe help spiritually offset the damage the Reptilian Greed Mongers are doing to their own children, among others.

There are two major coincidences in this work that became apparent after I finished it.
1) It has eight rays outward...Buddhism...but let's not get tooooo religious here.
QUESTION AUTHORITY!

2) The entire piece is actually one gigantic peace symbol, aside from the 33 obvious ones.

"FREEFLOW" - 16"x20" - SOLD
There are those among us who have completely lost control morally, financially, economically, and rationally...so if you know one of these people...please print this image and give it to them for a gift, free of charge. SMILE!



"PRESIDENTIAL POLICIA" - 36"x48" - SOLD
Believe me; he wishes it was not this way. I am sure the ring on his finger tells the same story.
The fact is, there's just too many dangerous people out there who don't get it.



"SPIDERS ANKLES IN PLAID" - 48"x36" - SOLD
There is no style. There is no category. You either love it, or you don't.


"BEES KNEES IN PLAID" - 48"x36" - SOLD
LOVE IT?



"REBIRTH CACOON" - 36"x48" - SOLD
This is the after effect of death...the new life!


"AFTERLIFE" - 36"x48" - SOLD
Because we're all just energy.


"FUTURE PULSE" - 24"x36" - SOLD
Everything is gonna be all right.


"LIFE BLOOD" - 24"x36" - SOLD
Stay focused, realign the path, think positive and love yourself.
Love your energy!

Thank You for taking the time to view my work, read my blog, and don't eat money even if it's all you have!

PEACE!
DANIEL POISSON
CODE OF CREATION