BIOGRAPHY

                                              

Indigo Flores is a San Francisco Bay Area Native that has studied at The California College of Arts and Crafts, The Academy of Art College.  He earned his degrees in Fine Arts, Film-production in the year 2000. He has trained and worked in the field of I.T. and computer support for Micros point of sale systems in Maryland and The George Lucas Educational Foundation in Northern Marin County.  He continues to create illustrations, on a contract basis for the George Lucas educational Foundation’s award winning magazine; "Edutopia" and website.  He finds joy in personal individual projects as well as other contract positions Country wide.  He has created Artwork and portraiture for individuals in From Seattle to Russia. As well as production and illustration oriented work he has had works in three separate shows: The sixth Sun Foundation in San Diego California, The Toltec Center of Creative Intent in Berkeley, California (which has since relocated its home base to Wimberly, Texas, and his own personal showing at Black and Blue Tattoo gallery in San Francisco California.

                                                            

He is an artist that creates through dreams and trance states induced by the pleasure of life. Experiencing the places of light, joy, disease, desire and despair he attends to the spirits that dwell in the hidden spaces… if for only a moment in time, to bring them forward for all time.  These are dreams realized! The inspiring and sometime fear provoking dreams of sorcery, compassion, magic, addiction, shadows and technology are his springboard. He enjoys working closely with individuals in order to bring their ideas into a fully realized design and creation that truly embodies all that they wish to share with the world.

He has also studied the mystical practices of the Toltecs, Wiccans, Egyptians and the High Magicians as well as doing all he can to learn and understand the Catholicism he was raised with.

                                                                          MISSION STATEMENT

                                                          

                                                                  

Creation. 
Art is creation therefore art is life.  Art is the expression of the moments and movements that we create with our lives.  Everything is Art.

I have been working in many areas of the arts for the past twenty years and have begun to realize STYLE and FOCUS within my work.  Technique has been important but in retrospect, ALL my work has represented a mystically alien thread and tends toward the arcane dreamlike states that cause an individual to awaken disoriented, clambering for any meaning inherent within the shifting chimera.  In short my work is about individuals struggling to realize their true selves through the adversity they face, whether it be real or imagined.

Adversity imposed by the internal processes of the individual as well as those reflected and mirrored within the individual’s external world, such as uncontrollable emotions.  Demonic possession of the spirit called ANGER, the destroyer called JEALOUSY, an inability to take responsibility for the actions of a habitual creature searching for acceptance and love in a world full of people, too many voices, illusions and pain, and the foul bodiless creature named FEAR that traps us there.

I have moved into a new stage of creation that comes with Bloodline and traditional  knowledge, a stage that challenges me to do more with the images and ideas that provoke my imagination.  The challenge to become visible in the world, to be selfless and fearless in the face of adversity is pounding at my door and I am clear in my mind and heart, ready to open it.

I have become the artwork I am creating.

Everything is art.