Divined Designs are the logical progression from Stainspotting's concrete exploration of pareidolic phenomena.

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Equal parts fine art and fun art, The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo’s Divined Designs are based in the phenomenon of “pareidolia”, which is the tendency for perception to detect meaningful patterns in random stimuli. These divinatory works of art begin with a random, expressive application of color and texture. The primed surface becomes like a psychic teleprompter that suggests forms to the mind’s eye. Like a reverse coloring book, Michaelangelo outlines the spotted thought-forms in the priming, dream-catching and ghost-busting a wide range of expressive characters, using only black paint to outline the forms, and white for subtle highlights. 

 

"I relate to the process of the Divined Designs like a kind of ghost-busting / dream-catching ritual. The randomness of the priming sets a trap, and turns the surface of the canvas into a psychic teleprompter. I watch phantom forms move subliminally below its plane. When I detect a form that appeals to me, I hold it in the crosshairs of my attention, ensnaring it in the webbed texture of the pareidolic portal and catch it by outlining its forms. What are these forms that float to the surface like lost continents? Are they ghosts? Spirits? Archetypal reductions? Personifications of the emotional imp-pulses that populate the psyche? The disowned aspects of the self seeking validation and acceptance? 🤷🏼‍♂️ give it a name, I guess. I relate to these oracular emanations as Divined Designs." 

These are works of post-visionary, psy-op pop art, more fun than mere fine art, more toast-modern than a painted pop-tart.