Patrick Gorman Pettis' Blog

Our world is full of things not yet defined by conventional science, not yet understood by our limited comprehension of  mathematics. Even agnostic, and atheist can agree that there is in fact allot more about all things that we do not understand than those things we do. However there were those before us, whose cultures and societies that reached greatness, that believed in their way the intangible. The inspiration behind this series came from those of totem animals, a belief system in the accordance of nature and the Native American Indians but shared by other cultures through time and all over the world. These people, believed in spirit guides taking the form of animals. Known as spirit animals, or totem animals, tradition provides that each individual is connected with nine different animals that will accompany each person through life, acting as guides. Different animal guides come in and out of our lives depending on the direction that we are headed and the tasks ...

Solarium made from Caramelized Sugar  Inspiration can come from anywhere, when you're open to being inspired  . . . and even sometimes when you're not. I was looking closely at the veins in my plants and thought how fantastic these small singular pieces are on this side and that. Each consisting of their own individual cells each performing a function but the plant itself is as a whole an entirely greater creature. The sum is greater than its individual parts. How much like life is that. "One" from the 'Mosaic Series of 2014' by Patrick Gorman Pettis Each of us carry within us as many molecules as there are stars in the sky and more than an estimated ten trillion little cells in our bodies which we are for the most part very directly in charge of and affect. But more than that what of our moments, our experiences and actions, our deeds. Within the sum of our lives there are facets; memories and preferences, who we are, what we did, ...