Dream alliance: Art, anthropology, and consciousness
Anthropology of Consciousness August 31, 2023 Christopher Santiago, Melinda Kiefer Santiago 3 citations
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Christopher Santiago
2 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2023
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Phantasmata
Anthropology of Consciousness July 31, 2023 Christopher Santiago
My art (Figures 1-7) revolves around the theory and practice of cultural resistance, which I call the ‘dreamweapon’ or the shamanic aspect of the fight for social justice. Through repetitive patterns, highly saturated colours, stark black and white alteration and abstracted anthropomorphisms, these paintings unleash an excess of spirits, a profusion of phantasmata, pineal eyes in ecstatic...