EyeRise

Description: Honua means the world or the Earth in Hawaiian. I often feel isolated in my psychotic experiences like a lonely sea turtle/honu coming up for air out in the middle of the ocean.

Description: A photo manipulation design of an eye rise. I experienced a massive eye that felt a part of the land. This happened during an OBE at dawn.

Description: During my first psychotic break I was out of body and I felt like I went to outer space. I went as far as Jupiter and Saturn. I felt like they were the boundary of human consciousness and were holding me and the Earth in place. Keeping me from getting lost in the darkness and drifting into the depths of space. This painting is trying to depict that. The balancing act and brotherly hold Jupiter and Saturn have on Earth.

Description: A character design from my animation classes in college.

Description: An all seeing eye. Part of a bigger painting called "Integration"

Description: This is a drawing done for the Community Reach Center in my hometown. It is apart of the Semicolon Project that promotes suicide prevention and mental health awareness. A pause in life but not an end. We can climb out of negativity and find solace.

Description: A self portrait during a time when I was in psychosis. I felt like in one eye I could see the inner workings of the universe and in the other my suffering and animal rage coming through.

Description: The logo of Eye Rise art. An "R" and an "E" with a tongue and eye.

Description: Our perception comes through our eyes as a rainbow of color, but there is a whole world beyond our perception. There are intelligent entities there lending us a helping hand.