VISIONARY KINSHIPS
& ENCOUNTERS

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Painting is mostly a solitary affair.
But I do occasionally go out to openings
or cross entire continents
to meet up with other like-minded souls.
Each encounter is very special
- learning to see through the other's artistic gaze
and sharing a hard-earned knowledge of craft.



ATELIER IN CASTEL CARAMEL, June 2001
Florence Ménard - Ernst Fuchs - L. Caruana

...Our last day, after working together for a year.



H. R. GIGER IN PARIS, Oct 2002
L. Caruana - H. R. Giger - Sybille Ruppert

...Giger had called me late one night to discuss the Manifesto.



CHAPEL OF SACRED MIRRORS, New York, Aug 2007
Alex Grey - L. Caruana

In the studio, just after our Entheologue discussion...



COTE D'AZUR, France, May 2001
L. Caruana - Martina Hoffmann - Roberto Venosa

We enjoyed a few days together on the Cote d'Azur...



GALERIE MORPHEUS, Los Angeles, Dec 1999
Florence Ménard - De Es - L. Caruana

Our first meeting with De Es



STUDIO DE ES in Vienna, Aug 2006
De Es - L. Caruana

Our second meeting (he was much more talkative this time).



ERNST FUCHS OPENING, Hoorn, Holland, Sept 2002
Michael Fuchs - L. Caruana - Herman Smorenburg

Victor Linford, Viktor Safonkin and (of course) Ernst Fuchs
were also there for the opening



VERNISSAGE - LA MORT TRANSFIGUREE, Paris, Oct 2006
L. Caruana - Michel Henricot

Henricot lives around the corner from me in the Bastille.
We've shared some amazing dinner conversations...



EN GARDE! MAURA HOLDEN'S STUDIO, Madison, Aug 2007
L. Caruana - Maura Holden

Getting to know Maura was a rare experience...



AMANDA SAGE'S STUDIO in the WUK, Vienna, Aug 2006
L. Caruana - Amanda Sage

Slowly over the years, Amanda and I have become good friends...



...FOUR MEN IN BLACK, Aug 2000
Jorges X. - Andrew Gonzalez - L. Caruana - Gregoire Massonneau

The four of us had just toured the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris.



BEFORE THE KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM, Vienna, July 2000
Bryan Ward - Voke - Amanda Sage - L. Caruana

We formed a strong friendship in the summer of 2000...



Colloquium on Hallucinations, Paris, March 2008
L. Caruana, Jan Kounen, Juan Gonzalez

Jan Kounen is the director of such films as Blueberry and Autres Mondes.
Prof. Juan Gonzalez has organized the Colloquium on Hallucinations
in Paris for a number of years.


DINNER AT MY PLACE, April 2008
L. Caruana - Jennifer Dumpert - Erik Davis

Erik was in town that week for a talk at the Palais de Tokyo.
The endless flow of wine, absinthe & conversation
created a great atmosphere that evening.


DINNER AT MY PLACE, March 2008
Benny Shanon
- L. Caruana

Benny Shanon is the author of a phenomenological study on ayahuasca visions
called Antipodes of the Mind (which he'd just signed for me...).


METAGEUM CONFERENCE, Malta, Nov 2007
Erik Davis - L. Caruana - Gyrus

The three of us formed a panel discussion on entheogens...



DALIS ERBEN MALEN EUROPA, Munich, Oct 2005
Reinhard Schmid - Claude Bertrand - Peter Proksch - Pierre Peyrolle - Angerer der Alterer
Viktor Safonkin - L. Caruana - Michael Lassel - Marc Desmullier - André Janout - Michael Maschka


Standing before the train-wagon that Dali proclaimed was the centre
of the universe in his Pop-Op-Yes-Yes-Pompier painting



VERNISSAGE - ALAIN MARGOTTON, Dec 2007
Alain Margotton - Pierre Peyrolle - L. Caruana

It was a stunning retrospective of Margotton's work.