Vinnie Ray_Cave & Echoes: The Sound is WOW 

Cave & Echoes is a creation myth story about how the Universal Consciousness achieves enlightenment, thus becoming a singularity - which starts the beginning of the Universe again. The story unfolds as small caves open up in the fabric of space-time, one by one.  This is seen on street corners, backyards, in homes.  The caves emit an echoing sound - WOW.  More caves continue to open all over the world and throughout the universe.  Researchers begin to study the caves and echoes and find that inside the caves is pure consciousness.  Each echo is a unit of consciousness.  People start to jump into the caves to become pure consciousness, to feel the WOW.  Gradually the caves grow in size and numbers until they all join and merge into one single cave of pure consciousness.  Shortly after pure consciousness is achieved, all the echoes merge into a single consciousness. It is at this moment that the universe reaches enlightenment.  The videos, wall art, and drawings are artifacts generated from this story.

This story was told in video episodes with Instagram posts (#caveandechoesofficial).  I’ve created a playlist on Youtube to view the story in sequence.  
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVVGV5WwC0_9h_OJL8g0zNY55gSwcvGW


Cave & Echoes: The Sound is WOW

Good Luck is not really a superpower you can control.  It’s really about tuning yourself to operate in a positive field.  Once in the positive field more positive things are likely to happen.  You can not will a sports team to win and thus win a bet.  If you can do that then that’s not good luck, that’s a skill or power used as a tool.  When good things happen, you might call it good luck.  Really it’s the ability to put yourself in an energetic field where good things happen more often that produces more events that seem like Good Luck - That are Good Luck.  

This project started as a street art campaign with Good Luck stickers put in streets around the world.  2019 the project made the leap to a public art installation in downtown Providence.  The Good Luck Gateway (GLG) was created with a grant from the Providence Art+Culture+Tourism Dept.  It was a competitive call to artists.  My GLG design was selected to launch Providence's flagship festival PVDFest.  The installation was at its location for 5 months.  The interactions, joy, and magic that the Gateway brought to the festival and Providence was overwhelming.

WHAT IT IS
The Good Luck Gateway (GLG) is a ritual passage that lets people take an active role in creating luck for themselves. 
WHAT IT DOES
The Good Luck Gateway activates our ability to enter an energetic field where good things happen more often.
Walking through the arch is a personal ritual that activates a subconscious suggestion that attracts luck. This happens because people who are expecting good luck are looking for it-- their eyes and minds are tuned toward a positive vibration. Once in that positive field, more positive things are likely to happen. People call this acceleration of positive events Good Luck. The GLG empowers that process, inviting us to create our own luck, instead of waiting for it. 
HOW IT WORKS
Approach The Good Luck Gateway. Before entering, remember the luckiest thing that has ever happened to you. Think about how it made you feel. Remember details. Hold that energetic state. Now take a deep breath and hold it. Walk through the Good Luck Gateway, holding your breath as you pass under the Luck Lightning Bolt. 
Once you’re through, exhale slowly. Stand a moment, expecting good things. Then reenter reality in your positively energized state. 
That’s it.
That’s all. 
That’s how you get lucky!



Good Luck Street Art/Public Art

Portals are deeply rooted in our popular culture. What is it that drives so many myths and plot lines to use the archetype of portals? Recent portal stories include West World, OA, RussianDoll, Dark, Dr.Strange, Marvel multiverse, Donnie Darko, Stargate, Howl’s Moving Castle, Rick and Morty, Gravity Falls, on and on and on.  I see Portals as an icon of pure potential.  What is on the other side?  What do YOU want to find on the other side? A Portal is a threshold, a door, a window, a passage to consider, which prompts thought energy.

Portal Distortions are depictions of the state when a Portal is closing and it's energy field collapses, distorting space-time in the area. The effect creates a multi-layered image.


Portal Distortions

Portals are deeply rooted in our popular culture. What is it that drives so many myths and plot lines to use the archetype of portals? Recent portal stories include West World, OA, RussianDoll, Dark, Dr.Strange, Marvel multiverse, Donnie Darko, Stargate, Howl’s Moving Castle, Rick and Morty, Gravity Falls, on and on and on.  I see Portals as an icon of pure potential.  What is on the other side?  What do YOU want to find on the other side? A Portal is a threshold, a door, a window, a passage to consider, which prompts thought energy.


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