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Artist's Gallery!
All the paintings currently shown below are done by Dawn Stevens
of Mystic Eye.
They are in no particular order. Please note that all
images presented on this and all other pages are
copyrighted and may not be used without specific written
permission by Mystic Eye, Dawn Stevens, or any other artist represented here. To
request permission to use images, artwork, make purchases,
etc.... please contact us at artwork@themysticeye.com.
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I was
invited to participate in a show in River North,
Chicago, IL. The currator saw some of my other
constructed pieces, and requested I produce some more. I
normally don't produce artwork on demand (my art springs
forth from me in it's own time, it is all real life, my
own experiences, I cannot produce any other way, nor
would I want to), but since I was currently half way
through with Slaughterhouse Happydance, I agreed to
finish it, and produce the companion piece that was
already in my mind. These are large pieces, over four
feet tall, and three to four feet wide. After showing
them to the currator, I was instructed to enclose them
in plexiglass boxes for their protection. Though costly,
I am glad I did, as one of the pieces was attacked and
the box smashed, shortly before the end of the show.
They now reside in my livingroom, and many a neighbor I
have never met before has introduced themselves to me
with "I hope you don't mind, it's not that I was
trying to look in your window, but I couldn't help but
notice... ".
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"Slaughterhouse
Happydance" 1996
Bone, industrial
parts, railroad castoffs, leather and glass eye
assembled on penny and flat washer covered Masonite with
custom wooden frame.
After deciding to do this piece, I took a trip to the
slaughterhouse. My original intention was to find whole
rib bones. The slaughterhouse is the only place you can
find them now. Grocery stores cut them into nice, safe
non-animal looking pieces. I will spare you the details,
except that I aquired, cleaned, bleached and prepared
these myself. The man behind the counter had split the
heads with a dullish cleaver. The blood splattered all
over his lit, ash dripping cigarrette. From the look of
his apron, he probably didn't notice.
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"Glorified
Cow Headed God Thing" 1996
Bone,
stove, lamp and industrial parts assembled on cloth
covered Masonite with custom wooden frame.
A very shamanic type piece, I have constructed an icon,
a god. How much meat do we consume, and how much of our
time is spent every day focused on this consumption?
What we obsess about is what we worship. How fitting
then that the sacrificial cow is adorned and even
crowned with the elements of that which we most
celebrate our love for him with, the stove. Fur and
feather further decorate him, he is part and parcel of
the big machine that is our food system. In a process
that removes us from reality, we beleive our hands to be
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"Slaughterhouse
Happydance" 1996
Detail Shot.
Two saw blades, stained red menace the intersection of
the penny/washer panels. Wires explode from the center,
snaking around to form a sort of nervous system for the
new creature, born from the cast off parts of the old.
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"Glorified
Cow Headed God Thing" 1996
Detail
Shot.
Dead but regal, constructed by my own hand, ever silent,
but nevertheless seeming to evoke some response from
every viewer, the Glorified Cow Headed God Thing holds
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"Elemental
Doorway" 1997
Collage on Masonite panels, installed in an actual door.
This is the top and bottom of view of a very tall door.
Each panel is a collage representation of one of the four
elements. Each contains natural rocks, crystals, bones, an
eye, industrial parts, cloth, glass and more,
representative of the interconnectedness of all things,
even apparent opposites. The top panel has a door swinging
from it's left, its knob is golden, symbol of the sun, or
male energy. The bottom panel has a door as well, this one
is connected to the top door by a series of keys. It's
handle is of cut glass, representing the moon. The center
of the door has a black knob, so shiny as to appear
transparent. It is of the sphere we all seem to forget...
the void.
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