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Writing about Chris Isner’s journey, the Ayahuasca visions that revealed an ancient woodworking technique, and the return to the jungle to teach children to create art for themselves.

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Selected Coverage

Three articles published by Samadhi Today on Medium trace the artist’s path: how the technique arrived, how it became sculpture, and where the work carries on beyond the studio.

  • Ayahuasca visions showed artist an ancient woodworking technique that he is now using to produce unique wood sculptures

    The story of the technique revealed in Ayahuasca visions and the distinctive wood sculptures that followed from it.

    Samadhi Today on Medium
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  • Emerging artist incorporates ancient wood carving technique that was shown to him in Amazonian Plant Teacher ritual bringing visions from a magical realm into material reality

    Coverage of the artist’s practice of carrying visions from a magical realm into material reality through ancient wood carving.

    Samadhi Today on Medium
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  • Giving back: artist who learned unique technique in Ayahuasca ceremony goes back to the jungle to teach kids how to create art so they can sustain themselves

    The artist returns to the jungle to teach kids how to create art so that they can sustain themselves.

    Samadhi Today on Medium
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Alongside the gallery, works such as Ceremonial Pipe, Multiverse Awakening and Ayahuasca Eyes form part of the collection. Enquiries about commissions can be sent to qtisner -at- gmail -dot- com.

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