Where is my Mind (2026) A2 Art Print

Archival grade art print made on thick matte paper.

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*Print only - Frame is not included.

*This product is made to order to reduce overproduction and wasted materials, however this also means it can take a little longer to delivered. Thank you for your patience and for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!


Original artwork Medium: Digital illustration

• Paper thickness: 0.26 mm (10.3 mil)
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper sourced from Japan

Artwork description:

It depicts a very simplified patchwork plushie of Quetzalcoatl, who is a feathered serpent deity originating from the Mesoamerican culture dating back earlier than the Aztecs. It's known as the god of creation and wind, and the mythology says that it travelled to the underworld where it collected ancient bones, which it then mixed with it's own blood (from a wound in his peen 😆) to create humankind. It's also known to be a god of wisdom, intelligence and creativity amongst other things, and embodies the dualities of earth and the heavens, and balance between masculine and feminine energy.

So I felt it pretty fitting to use Quetzalcoatl to represent the collective dream that we all share and simultaneously create. How everybody's perceptions of the world are so vastly different, yet it all forms one big beautiful and chaotic enmeshment of shared reality.

Separation is a construct of Ego. It's necessary to maintain a sense of individuality, but so many are blinded to just how much our actions, beliefs, and in my experience, even our thoughts and emotions can and do influence the external - Not only affecting our own psyche/internal world and the lens we see life through, but on a quantum level, rippling out as energetic frequencies to create an unperceived butterfly effect. 

This is why I've drawn all of the humans within the piece having their eyes closed, yet all of the deities and animals etc. having their eyes a little more open to the underlying cosmic song and dance.

I started this piece a few years back, when I was in a very dark place during the grieving period of a late autism diagnosis, and the version of myself that was unknowingly built on guilt, shame and survival had died, along with everything I thought I was. I had to do a complete operating system reset, and during that time I had to do a lot of time travelling through my memories, reconnecting with my true inner child and remembering how to play as I was struggling to remember what fun even was at that point. So I wanted to keep this piece light and childlike as that was my starting point of rebuilding myself up, while simultaneously adhering to the core concept of the piece.

As the patchwork begins to fall away from the Quatzalcoatl's neck, it starts to reveal neural pathways connecting and firing, as everything begins with a thought. Then if you look closely, the neural pathways begin to form and connect to mushrooms, which Psilocybin is known to help repair neurological issues as well as be the beginning of human consciousness if you follow the 'stoned ape' theory.

From there on it's a playground of memories, stories, and finding myself and my creative passion again, through giving myself the space and permission/freedom to do so after being locked up in an invisible cage for so long.

As you reach the tail, the Quatzalcoatl holds the scales from the Egyptian myth of the Weighing of Souls, where once you die Anubis is said to weigh your heart against a feather, and only allow you to enter the heaven realms if your heart is equal or lighter weight to that of the feather. Everybody carries a weight in their heart, and often so much of it isn't even our fault, but it is important to forgive ourselves and others and continue lightening our personal load, because unhealed trauma is cancerous. It only ever brings more trauma, which we either weigh ourselves down with, or we reject accountability and project and take it out on others - it's all either masochistic or sadistic. The only way to truly move beyond these personal prisons is to really embody the fact that we are not seperate. Everything from our emotions and physical bodies, to our communities and cultures and entire collective reality is deeply connected, and we need to use that wisdom to do what we can to encourage ourselves and each other to rise up, while painting a brighter, more loving, and empathic future for all of us, because as Ram Dass said - we're all just walking each other home.