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HeArtEyeFacts
by Joshua S. Levin

Overview


HeArtEyeFacts is a curated collection of prose philosophy, poetry, and visionary art by Joshua S. Levin. The full color hardbound volume includes 194 pages and almost 200 radiant images spanning over a decade and a half of working and living.

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Description


Word play, prose, poetry and images are nested within colorful pages that rustle together like leaves in a bookbound tree. HeArtEyeFacts can be savored as a coherent illustrated experience from beginning to end, and each entry will also blossom on its own. You can open it like a quick visionary oracle or go for a long slow walk with a small rectangular friend. The text and images gracefully combine to produce thoughts and feelings that aim to move, delight, illuminate, and inspire creative engagement with life. Many of the pages are just aching to be shared and read out loud to friends or family. 

HeArtEyeFacts is both deeply personal and accessible. It is serious and seriously playful. It is afterall, a humble 20th century style book with pages made of paper, but it is also a super time condensed multi-modal crystalized mind treasure of life made visible through utmost love and care. As with any good art excavation, it includes images and revelations about my background that have not been seen or shared before. It is the first available collection of my work, and I believe it shines true with the mysterious light that initially drew you to the flame.

Art-Fully,

~ Joshua

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About the author


Dr. Joshua S. Levin, Doc. Shua, is an artist, poet, musician and professor of anthropology at the College of Southern Nevada. He is also an unapologetic flow addict. On Mondays and Wednesdays he can be found in the laboratory or on top of a lecture hall desk, getting his science on. Tuesdays and Thursdays are for work and travel in "Discovery," his jewel toned imagination powered dirigible. The airship studio and cloud lounge has great lighting, a superb sound system, and provides much needed perspective in a city known for all that never leaves it. Fridays are generally reserved for picking cabbages and servicing the machine. Saturdays are decidedly mysterious, and of course, Sunday is the restoration.

Shua is beloved by most of his students, reviled by some, affably tolerated by his 19 year old son, and kept aloft by his long time wife and creative partner, Deborah. His art and life are informed by a rich diet of science and art, travel, deep play, ritual theater, crazy wisdom, and comedic desserts. With his wife and other collaborators, he spent two decades developing and facilitating community based transformational art experiences. His work is devoted to celebrating and nurturing life. It is also designed to help him to polish his heart and be a more caring representative of his species.

Note: I was instructed to tell you that he did not write this, and that he feels uncertain and vulnerable about some of the ambiguously revealing words that were used to make inferences about how he should be pigeon-holed in relation to other authors and creatives. "For example," he said, "is the wisdom really crazy, or is it just conventionally challenged?" Or, to directly address the personal aspect, "is it affability, or is my son actually amused by one out of ten of my jokes?" In any case, I have not spoken for him, just about him. He's a handful and the book is a treasure.

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Book details

Genre:ART

Subgenre:Individual Artists / Artists' Books

Language:English

Pages:200

Hardcover ISBN:9798350944136


Overview


HeArtEyeFacts is a curated collection of prose philosophy, poetry, and visionary art by Joshua S. Levin. The full color hardbound volume includes 194 pages and almost 200 radiant images spanning over a decade and a half of working and living.

Read more

Description


Word play, prose, poetry and images are nested within colorful pages that rustle together like leaves in a bookbound tree. HeArtEyeFacts can be savored as a coherent illustrated experience from beginning to end, and each entry will also blossom on its own. You can open it like a quick visionary oracle or go for a long slow walk with a small rectangular friend. The text and images gracefully combine to produce thoughts and feelings that aim to move, delight, illuminate, and inspire creative engagement with life. Many of the pages are just aching to be shared and read out loud to friends or family. 

HeArtEyeFacts is both deeply personal and accessible. It is serious and seriously playful. It is afterall, a humble 20th century style book with pages made of paper, but it is also a super time condensed multi-modal crystalized mind treasure of life made visible through utmost love and care. As with any good art excavation, it includes images and revelations about my background that have not been seen or shared before. It is the first available collection of my work, and I believe it shines true with the mysterious light that initially drew you to the flame.

Art-Fully,

~ Joshua

Read more

About the author


Dr. Joshua S. Levin, Doc. Shua, is an artist, poet, musician and professor of anthropology at the College of Southern Nevada. He is also an unapologetic flow addict. On Mondays and Wednesdays he can be found in the laboratory or on top of a lecture hall desk, getting his science on. Tuesdays and Thursdays are for work and travel in "Discovery," his jewel toned imagination powered dirigible. The airship studio and cloud lounge has great lighting, a superb sound system, and provides much needed perspective in a city known for all that never leaves it. Fridays are generally reserved for picking cabbages and servicing the machine. Saturdays are decidedly mysterious, and of course, Sunday is the restoration.

Shua is beloved by most of his students, reviled by some, affably tolerated by his 19 year old son, and kept aloft by his long time wife and creative partner, Deborah. His art and life are informed by a rich diet of science and art, travel, deep play, ritual theater, crazy wisdom, and comedic desserts. With his wife and other collaborators, he spent two decades developing and facilitating community based transformational art experiences. His work is devoted to celebrating and nurturing life. It is also designed to help him to polish his heart and be a more caring representative of his species.

Note: I was instructed to tell you that he did not write this, and that he feels uncertain and vulnerable about some of the ambiguously revealing words that were used to make inferences about how he should be pigeon-holed in relation to other authors and creatives. "For example," he said, "is the wisdom really crazy, or is it just conventionally challenged?" Or, to directly address the personal aspect, "is it affability, or is my son actually amused by one out of ten of my jokes?" In any case, I have not spoken for him, just about him. He's a handful and the book is a treasure.

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