Budh &Ray Art Books
2 IN One EYE – An Anthology of Appearances and Art Actions
For the artists Budh &Ray, the formality between object and concept, subject and percept, detonates into a meteoric burst of conflations, freewheeling assemblages and delicate subterfuge. With minimal filtering between the folds of hypnagogia and tactile imagination, their pageant of synesthetic sensibility and visceral semiotics soars on visions of luck and grandeur. Like the effects of surreal interpolation—only all too real—everyday contexts in 2 IN One EYE morphed into “baffling” or “released” depending on the perspective. Here is the first of the Budh &Ray art books introducing their assemblages, performance art, and assorted texts.
An Archetextural Digest – Artifactual Maneuvers and Indefinite Art
From a heightened synesthetic aptitude nurturing the founding of a restaurant-music venue to a mystical approach to formal logic and sensual contact… from a hands-on hands-off relationship with endless surface-play and purposefully uncompleted projects to curating Imagination itself… An Archetextural Digest presents more than just a sampler of Budh &Ray’s artwork. Here we meet textural sensibilities blown from mystery and ideality as they’re being tactically seduced into lyricism and artifact. All from their thoroughly flexible nose for art.
Magical Agreements – Art Incidences & Intrasensory Conduct
In this gallery of incidences and art conduct the Budh &Ray engage awakening in sleep, the not-yet of appearances, transpersonal glow, and their sources of reverie… shaping resonances between objects and color, words and silence, intelligence and beneficence. Heedless of appearing sophomoric while addressing perspectives regarding predication and method, Budh &Ray here circumscribe art and its reincarnations; they position ideation by way of surprise, and explore the ignition of inner tremble through the beheld surface.
Absorbing Directions – Aesthetic Traction & Vivifactions
Positioning themselves via medium-grade synesthesia and spirited self-improvisation, Budh &Ray endeavor to stir intention with aesthetic traction, presenting their aspirations by way of supernal orientations. Their work, initiated especially through touch and smell, embraces the “outside” of things by way of inward appointments: Left and Right emanate their limbic resonance; Up and Down configure their vertical travels; Forward and Back, their hidden geometries. At the frontier of ardor, the Cosmos’ own coordinates provide their means for dreaming inside appearances. . Here, amplifying their exceptional attitude, they portray a horizon of intimacies aiming to vivify the Unseen.
New Bodies – Configuring Attitude To Articulate Artifact
Finding that they’ve been dreaming inside one another, Budh&Ray’s inner-life gathers a whirl of excitement. The moisture is perfect, the glow exudes a fragrant prospect. They awaken in the course of donning their own surface, presenting a standing wave approaching its outer dimension. Inside-out, they climb into the unimpossible. So, seeing that mythic is as mythic does, they hatch themselves out of an egg; a feat of atmospheric spark. Attitude diffusing, nosing about, a flexible proposal spawns a primal moment. At this point, the world offers itself as the seeming it elects for them to unseem. “It all has to do with how it can be done,” Budh&Ray muse, as their perception blossoms an imaginal festival.
The Substance Of Feeling: The Aptitude For Art Implicit In World Conception
The very suggestion of imagery surfaces intimacies between textural buoyancy and bearing, fluid density and deep fixity. With a sensitivity sparking a backdrop of impressions, a yet-to-open aperture feeds the vision of it all, sending shivers into resplendent feeling. That’s what receptivity and all its underlay dresses to aspire. In this moment, Budh &Ray cross the threshold into physical objects. They soon fathom how this is attitude become substance for fashioning the world, aptitude demonstrating a way to begin. The Substance of Feeling gathers once again a stirring and inspirited display of Budh &Ray’s performance art, assemblages, text, paintings, and projections.
Astralities: Paintings on Printed Magazine Paper
Budh & Ray examine the allure of erotic suggestion alongside its infra-and supra-dimensional pull through the physiography of sensual fields. Seventy-two paintings and studies using oil, acrylic, gouache and graphite on printed magazine paper. Astrality via desire’s captivating surfaces.
Of And Into All Of Three: An overture of interpolated anachronic avowals with regard to creatureliness, liminality and refractive sensibility
Reflecting on the liminality of certain sensibilities within creativity and its consequences, the artists Budh &Ray launch an ontological adventure gestating through a Möbius strip of awarenesses.As premonitions and amatory nuance steadily freshen the means for aptitude, appearances come face-to-face with how the foundation for insight and human understanding unfolds inside a number of entities like Bunny, Raku and Peacock, who metamorphically assemble destiny by dreaming backwards. All this while causation readies to kiss the altogether everything. Romance? Reverie? Philosophy? Elucidations about consciousness and intentionality grasping embodiment and existence’s horizon? Or a glimpse of the original rabbit hole? Whichever. . . you may well find here something you didn’t know you were looking for.
Accomplishing The Countenance Of The Creaturely: An Elasticity Of Occurrences Portrayed By A Bundled Breath Of Bared Characterizations
Considering their regularly risky intentions, Budh &Ray admit while facing their own reflecting how their attention ricochets off various unseen places revealing all kinds of hidden things. Given that, literally and anagogically they develop a keen interest in how distinctiveness occurs and conducts itself by way of that which accomplishes appearance. Hence, with a chime and a song they cross the threshold into the panorama of the creaturely, its renderings, manners and singular surprises to focus on the way appearances come to be… and how most everything’s features are more often than not quite complicated if not regularly disguised or obfuscated.
With their customarily succinct and metamorphic style, gleaning from observations, annotations and self-evaluations, they assemble here in vignette form a bundle of bared characterizations portrayed through an elasticity of occurrences intimated by a variety of suggestive aspirations, all headed for an apposite satisfaction featured in appearances. So running the gamut from the corporeal to the peculiar to the cosmologic, with regard to those occurrences this is what Budh &Ray have to say.
An Atlas of Irregular Intimacies: Unexpected Presences, Their Yearnings and Effects
An Atlas of Irregular Intimacies hosts a collection of personas, predicaments and relationships in their quest for deeper understanding of fulfillment. Here, as disappointments evolve and ideas venture to understand themselves, yearning and satisfaction involve the role of multiple existences, otherworldly and true-to-life, and how they braid into an unsettled yet formidable storyline. An Atlas of Irregular Intimacies is yet another thought-provoking presentation borne on the high-minded and unvarnished imagination of the artists Budh &Ray.
A Not-Ready-Yet Readymade Coloring Book
A Budh &Ray assortment of visualizations, moods, nearly-mades and not-yets prepared for rendering in whichever visible way using colored crayons or pencils, pastels or pen and ink.
Much of what appears appears already made; a readymade however is made from what hasn’t yet readily yet appeared. Here, already-thoughts are ready to be given shape and appearance by anyone wishing to make an already-thought 2-D readymade.