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Chris Isner creates unique wood sculptures using an ancient woodworking technique that was shown to him in Ayahuasca visions — an Amazonian Plant Teacher ritual that brought visions from a magical realm into material reality.
Every piece begins with reclaimed and fine woods: Mahogany, Oak, Acacia, Redwood and Poplar, joined with crystals such as Rose Quartz, Jasper, Labradorite and Agate. The work carries the markings of the Awaken, Aya, Aura Geometry, Shaman Flight and Pachamama series, each carved as a record of something seen rather than something imagined.
Giving back matters as much as making. The artist who learned this unique technique in an Ayahuasca ceremony goes back to the jungle to teach kids how to create art so they can sustain themselves.
Featured work includes Ceremonial Pipes, Multiverse Awakening, Ayahuasca Eyes, and the Fire Daemon series.
IsnerVision presents the visionary art of Chris Isner, a practice rooted in the idea that reality can be perceived in layers. The work draws on visions, awakenings, and an encounter with ayahuasca as sources of insight rather than simple inspiration. Ancient imagery associated with shamanic ceremony, the plant teacher, and ritual becomes a bridge between the seen world and the unseen. Through these pieces, Isner explores visions of geometry, aura, flame, and multiverse, offering viewers a glimpse of a magical realm shaped through wood and imagination.
Each sculpture begins with a vision and is carried into material reality through an ancient woodworking technique. Fine and reclaimed woods are selected for their grain, weight, and character, allowing the natural qualities of the material to guide the work. Carving emerges as a slow, attentive process, one that honours the irregularity of the block while revealing forms that seem to grow from within it. The resulting objects feel less like conventional products and more like presences, dense with symbolic and ceremonial resonance.
The visual language of IsnerVision draws strongly from the Amazonian plant teacher tradition and the ceremonial pipe. Figures such as the curandera, the chaman, the goat, serpents, and Cernunnos appear as recurring symbols in a shifting field of myth and psyche. Ceremonial objects, shrines, and carved models suggest a world in which the boundary between living and ancestral realms remains permeable. Symbolic density gives each work its own atmosphere, inviting reflection on ritual, memory, and the souls of the dead.
A sense of movement runs through the collection, from flight and speed to vortex, warp, and dispersal. Radiant light suggests energy gathering and dissolving, while spring waters and the dark woodland introduce a quieter counterpoint. The imagery is painterly and painter-inspired, built from glimpses rather than fixed narratives. Soft oval and full-bleed presentation allow the forms to breathe within the frame, and ornamental medallion motifs echo the circular geometries that recur in both visionary experience and traditional pattern.
For Isner, the creative process is inseparable from emergence and awakening. The visions arrived not as a complete blueprint but as fragments, feelings, and forms that required interpretation over time. Learning to sustain that encounter, and to translate it into wood, becomes an act of discipline as much as invention. The practice suggests that visionary art can emerge from collaboration between inner experience and the physical world, where the material does not merely receive an image but participates in its unfolding.
The gallery on IsnerVision offers an entry point into this body of work, with commissioned and unique pieces shaped around distinct visions. Even where viewers do not share the source experiences, the sculptures speak through texture, silhouette, and symbolic density. Deep teal and navy tones lend the setting a nocturnal depth, while warm metallic accents lend the display a ceremonial warmth. The result is an environment designed for looking closely, where each carving stands as an invitation to close the eyes and look again.