 Since more and more people contacts me with lots of questions - I decided that it's time to reawaken the School of Wicked Eye Development, that I've established in the beginning of 2013 as the anti-academic drawing movement. Here I'll explain the origins and purpose of W.E.D.  W.E.D.: Shaltmira's School of Wicked Eye Development  First meeting of W.E.D. at "The Hotel of Pushkin". Vilnius, 2013. FIRST MEETING January 19th, 2013 Vilnius While studying Visual Arts at the Vilnius Academy of Arts I felt huge discomfort with the common beliefs there what is "good" and what is "bad" art. It reminded me of my childhood's mandatory voyages to the church with my grandfather and the stories about God, "who knows everything and who should be feared". Neither I trusted or believed in "the mighty God", neither I agreed that the established traditions and most common opinions of the academics at the Art Academy is the One, Unquestionable Truth. During my life, I've met many people who were traumatized by their experiences as the young artists who encountered the outdated views of the art schools with their "all knowing teachers" and for me it reminded the ones who are disappointed by various religious experiences. For myself, I found relief and discovered freedom when entering the world of the Underground Art. Under this "label" I could finally set my creativity free and express myself without any rules.  HOW I TRIED TO REACH PEOPLE : 1. COMIXPHOBIA - a series of comix workshop. The main point of them it to fight the fear of drawing comics.  April 16, 2012 · Talking about absurd and comics combination. - Comixphobia III - comix workshop by Shaltmira, with special guest Anna Pavlova. 2. ART - SHOWS. A series of events where visual arts are joined by sound artists and performers.  D.Juodakytė's book-binding workshop at ART-SHOW "GRRRA". 2012, March 19. Vilnius  (c) Jone Aleksiunaite — with Indrė Balčiūnaitė, Žalnieriūnaitė Austė, Justė Dani and Shaltmira Satana. June 18, 2012  Tamsaus meno paroda "Apraiškos" / Underground/dark-art exhibition "Revelations". 1st of March, 2014. Kultūros baras Kablys, Lithuania. 3. PERFORMANCES.  Performance: Morbific Gymnastics. 2012 02 14, Ommen (Holland)  backstage, before performance PASKUTINIS VYRO ŽODIS/the last man's word http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idL8RCrrux4&feature=youtu.be  Kūnografija///Nesąmonių kiemelis. Kultūros naktis. 2013. Foto: Arcana Femina.  Shaltmira's performance WTF IS WRONG WITH ME?! Sunday. 2013 July 21. At WTFest - an Alternative Garden Party.  2014 MAY 8  Shaltmira × Servadio performance HypersigilZ 17 April 2015 at Kaleidoskop Berlin.  4. BODY - ART.  Model : La Calavera Catrina Photograph : Mantas Puida http://events.sielojramu.org/index.php?cat=0&page=8 Body-art : Shaltmira 5. BODY ART + ART SHOW  SEPT 7 2012  CUM✧GREEN vol. II (toxic rave party) organized by Sha: TRI :Ah & Shaltmira   ART'erija'2012 5. PUBLIC SPEAKING  After visiting VYTAUTAS DIDYSIS GYMNASIUM in Vilnius, in 2014, and talking with older kids about their future, career and life purposes - they gave me one of theirs drawings as the present, and on the other side they left thank-you notes and shared their feeling about my little the lecture. " October 24, 2014 "Siandien Vilniaus Vytauto Didžiojo gimnazija susitikau su 11-12 klasiu moksleiviais. Po susitikimo gavau dovanu vieno is ju piesini, o kitoje puseje keletas uzrase atsiliepimus. Aciu! Sekmes siekiant savo tikslu, vaikai!!!" - Shaltmira Satana."  Shaltmira - tautos valdovė! - Daugiau atsakomybės, prašyčiau. Kalbėsi su būsimaisiais Lietuvos mokesčių mokėtojais. Nukreipk teisinga gyvenimo linkme. - Tipo link kebabinės? - Link meno kolekcionavimo. Kad pirktų paveikslus iš tavęs. - Čiuju reiktų priadint į kebabo komplektą. didelio. - "Kebabų verslo komnukacija socialinėje erdvėje. Kebabų įvaizdžio problemos" - Kebabų marketingo paradoxai - Aš tai vis dar nesuprantu, kodėl tavo parodos atidarymo nerėmė AbraKebabra kababinių tiklas... - "Ar kebabas yra jaunosios kartos simbolis? Kebabas - iššūkis valdžiai ir piliečiams" - Aš irgi. Negi šiaip tą parodą dariau. "Kebabofobija. Kaip ją įveikti." https://www.facebook.com/events/524217967683380/?ref=22 Eglė Shaltmira "Kebabofobija. Kaip ją įveikti."  International Theater Debut Festival TYLOS. PRESS CONFERENCE. This year, the author of the visuals for the festival is Shaltmira. International Theater Debut Festival TYLOS. PRESS CONFERENCE. This year, the author of the visuals for the festival is Shaltmira (www.shaltmira.com). – For “TYLOS!” festival this year, you have created the poster called “Revenge of the Muses”. Please, make some comments on this artwork. – In developing the concept for the poster, I found the starting point in the illustration “The return of Mother Reptile” that I created in 2013. In this work, the action takes place in space, on an unnamed planet. A woman-reptile steps out of the large black spherical solids that have just landed, and is hugged by a child. Space is my source of creativity, while the return scene in this drawing for me has associations with the annual festival TYLOS. It is like returning of the mother that the young creative people are rushing to embrace. Sound waves can not propagate in space due to the absence of air. How is it possible to deliver the message if not by sound? This is where THEATRE starts. In my poster, I vividly portrayed the return by drawing a character with outspread wings, under which all the other actors have found shelter. Many people see the central figure in the poster as a vagina, which conceptually is very basic symbolism of mother. Interestingly, the observation that the central character is exactly the vagina, was publicly and personally expressed by mostly older men artists. I believe that for them it really is a place where they have never resided for long, or where they would like to come back more often. But in fact, I found my main inspiration in the book of illustrations by Jim Harter – it was an unidentified invertebrate. Perhaps it is true that its visual parallel with woman is quite obvious. The reptile motive remains, and transforms to the basilisk – a wrinkled lizard, even to dinosaurs, only to note that if another brilliant asteroid of the culture reform lands in Lithuania, theatre may disappear, like the dinosaurs did. At the same time, it is not clear why the mothers have returned. Have they come back to care for, to teach, or to criticize their children? Mother’s love can be very strict, even cruel. Perhaps under all of this, there lies the Electra Complex as well. After all, since the ancient times, theatre has been considered a "sanctuary" of men, so one or another vagina who flies inside it, only causes frustration and confusion, like a moth or a night butterfly who gets into a room. Because traditionally, the function of a vagina holder is to be a MUSE. To sit in your space cage and appear only when the director signals by waving his dead cigarette. In Lithuania, their equivalent existence in the same place at the same time is still regarded as an attempt to prove something, putting oneself forward, being impudent. If we visualize all of this, we get REVENGE OF THE MUSES. I wish all the women artists to never come back to earth. Shaltmira, 2015, Vilnius 6. CREATING MY OWN BRAND    SHALTMIRA: BLOGI DARBAI / BAD ARTWORKS. Personalnės parodos atidarymas. Oslo namai - meno erdvė. Foto : Saulius Paukštys. / Opening of solo exhibition.  7. CONNECTING WITH LIKE - MINDED PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD  Archyvas. Kai 2008m. pavasarį į Šakius pakviečiau atvykti Sigitą Parulskį ir jis sutiko - supratau, kad man nėra nieko neįmanomo Vyko PLYTA - šiuolaikinio meno dienos, savaitė atiduota menams: judesys-garsas-vizualumas-raidės. Fotogr. Vidas Venslovaitis. http://plyta-sakiai.blogspot.com/  With Travis (aka.PICTUREPLANE) after me and Sha:TRI:AH took the interview.   Shaltmira x 3TEETH : taking over the world    Adam Jones (TOOL) and Shaltmira. Los Angeles, 2015   To the magician everything you think, everything you do, everything you say, everything around you and everything within you is MAGICK. And since everything around its magick, it cancels itself out, therefore there's no such thing as magick. I personally don't even like the term - magick. To be honest, it carries a lot of stereotypes with it. I like instead to call it...ugh, I don't know...LIFE? Maybe.You see, everybody performs magick. Either they know it, or not. And that's why it's so funny when people say that magick is of the devil. Because they themselves are performing magick on continues basis without even knowing. <...> EVERY THOUGHT IS A PRAYER AND EVERY WORD IS A SPELL. And its a fairly good starting point when it comes to beginning to understand what magick really is. Frater X  John Bayley, "Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary" From Turgenev's letter to Viazemsky it is clear that he saw Pushkin's behavior not just "merry blasphemy" but a for of libertine behavior, insofar as he reproached Pushkin not merely for "god-less[ness]" but for something that was "worse". What is worse than atheism is libertinage, which not only disavows the existing system or religious values but also offers a particular alternative to it. - Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, "Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations"  Shaltmira, the Founder and Owner of the School of Wicked Eye Development, posing in front of one of her many canvas. West Hollywood, Los Angeles, 2015. The artwork behind Shaltmira reffers to THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES. Woodcut images of the sword of Damocles as an emblem appear in the 16th and 17th century European books of devices, with moralizing couplets or quatrains, with the import METUS EST PLENUS TYRANNIS ("Fear is plentiful for tyrants",i.e. "A tyrant's fear is complete fear"-as it is the tyrant's place to sit daily under the sword.) "Judge no one happy until his life is over" is a familiar theme in Greek and Roman philosophical writing. One variant of this is the Sword of Damocles, which is used to describe a sense of foreboding and might translate into English idiom as "walk a mile in my shoes." W.E.D. MANIFEST In Lithuanian, as Shaltmira originally wrote it for the first time in January of 2013: Puškino viešbutis, gerai nusiteikę žmogai, gėrimai, Lynchas, pozuotojos, laisvas piešimas...Nepaisant faktų, kad niekada gyvenime rankoje nelaikytas pieštukas, ar jau įgytas dailininko magistro laipsnis – svarbiausia yra išlaisvinti KREIVĄJĄ AKĮ ir piešti iš visų jėgų blogai! Kuo blogiau – tuo geriau! Deformuoti, iškraipyti, nusipiešti į lankas, sumedituoti naujas formas, pripiešti modeliui penkias galvas... ribų nėra. In English, edited by Shaltmira in September, 2015: The Hotel of Pushkin Positive People Liquids Lynch Posers and Poseurs Free-hand drawing Forget the fact of not ever holding the Pen in Your Hand. The same way forget your Degrees. We came here to set free the Wicked Eye And draw from within with all Force We came here to be the Worse! The worse - the Better! DEFORM DISTORT MEDITATE ON NEW FORMS ADD THE FIVE HEADS THERE IS NO BOUNDARY
 One must work, if not from inclination at least from despair, since, as I have fully proved, to work is less wearisome than to amuse oneself. – Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals LADDER. Symbolism. {1} {Climbing} a ladder may symbolize progress: improving your status; achieving or moving towards a goal. {2} Climbing a ladder to heaven is a recurring mythological motif. It may be seen as a symbol of achieving personal wholeness {3} Soemtimes the ladder - like Jacob's in the Book of Genesis - is used by angels descending and ascending: a symbol of communication between the spiritual and physical aspects of the self, or between the true self and the ego. {4} Descending a ladder to escape from an upper story of a burning house might symbolize {a need to} escape from your emotionals self. {5} Descending a latter into a deep pit or well might symbolize a resolve - or need - to explore your unconscious depths. Climbing a ladder to get out of a pit or well might symbolize the need to escape from something that threatens to engulf you - a mother-attachment, perhaps, or other unconscious contents.    1. A figure makes his way up a great ladder, reaching for a key that is suspended from the heavens, while a brilliant star at the end of the ladder burns with great radiance. Another man standing in the lower-left corner of the plate bears the symbol of sulfur upon his shirt. An iron tower draws a bolt of lightning to it, as a man atop the tower provokes the heavens further. Three pillars prop up the most significant forms: the circle, the square, and the triangle. Through all of it, the all-seeing-eye watches overhead as the earth is marked by wheels. Read more. 2. The room setting of the first meeting of W.E.D. ("Kreivosios akies lavinimo mokykla", in Lithuanian) in Vilnius, Vokiečių street's appartment, who had been known by some locals as the "Hotel of Pushkin" ("Puškino viešbutis"). 3. The drawing of Lina Itagaki, created during the first W.E.D. (”Kreivosios Akies Lavinimo Mokykla”) workshop in 2013, in Vilnius.
 For those, who would like to blame me of bragging I would like to say - it is quite opposite.
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj And as some might know, the Law of Thelema says: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will."
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