Claire Pupo | Psycho Monk

Claire Pupo is a psychic and visual artist from Spokane, WA. She received her BFA in painting from Marylhurst University outside of Portland, OR in 2013 at the top of her class. Pupo has been showing work professionally since 2015.

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Pupo’s work strives to document psychic and spiritual development.  She uses artwork as a means of communication and distillation between the Collective Consciousness and her subconscious. A true student of life and an intellectual at heart, Pupo (and many before her, such as Hilma Af Klint, Carl Jung, etc.) subscribes to the artistic philosophy of Neoplatonism. Neoplatonism’s core concept of a divine super consciousness, from which all sentient beings are derived and are in subtle communication with one another, is a driving force in Pupo’s work. They believes their artwork to be channeled communication between the larger Collective Consciousness and their subconscious mind, the middleman being the filter of the present conscious mind, spilling the downloads into abstract artwork as a form of interpretation. The downloads are distilled through the artistic process. That is what the viewer is bearing witness to: the attempt to understand what is being downloaded in completely abstract ways by bringing that abstraction into the physical plane. If we are unable to find language to perfectly describe the ineffable qualities of divine spiritual awakening, then a visual attempt may be more fruitful. Perhaps humans have been doing this for thousands and thousands of years, and Pupo thinks she’s fancy, smart, and brand-spanking new, when really she is a tiny part of a much larger wheel of reality and truth. Yet her attempt to distill this fragment of ecstatic truth seems both dharmic and completely pointless. And he we are at the true paradox of life: we have to take this all seriously, but we can’t take this all seriously.

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