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STILL LIFE *reloaded


t.me/STILL_LIFE_cartoons

really glad to announce that i’m starting to promote my edgy, psychology-backed comic strip series, published 2010 as above lavish production booklet.

on the telegram page from the link, i’ve put up all 104 strips (2 series of 52 each) as little video snippets. tried to do the same on instagram (instagram.com/STILL_LIFE_cartoons) but after two days in, working around bugs and mind games, the upload was stopped at no 26 from the second series. rather than deleting the account myself, i thought of using the mind games of this persecution to expose the intent and method instead …

a limited edition copy of this booklet is still available for £ 30,- including postage anywhere in the world (+ £ 10,- for recorded delivery). contact t.me/reinhard_schleining to inquire and order …

 

also for convenience, i’ve listed the booklet on my eBay shop: REINHARD SCHLEINING eBay

PERSECUTION

Yo – back to basics again. Continuous sabotaging of my ‘free’ server backed attempts of ‘independence’ (turning out to be all the same ‘mafia’ under different names and identities) led to harking back to my original wp presence. WP app changed original tech race push out.

The stage of developments: Can’t bother with much web fiddlings these days. Only necessities. Here’s a quick update.

– Books now available as print versions on Amazon (Anyone Wisened Up should see through hype and slander instilled through mindless masses by the ‘powers’).

– draft magazine available on Amazon. While London’s so-called ‘poetry library’ made it into Issue 004 – Survival (which then got ‘stolen’) before halting their ‘support’, amazon halted it at Issue 003 – Maintenance, which says a lot. The rejection came with Red Alert and threat of account closure. You’ll therefore still have to go through the mobile phone contact mentioned in the downloads from mydrive.ch in order to obtain this (perhaps only?) pathway out of the ‘old force web’. our next issue (Issue 007 – Pseudo Reality) will demonstrate the conjuring up of what people take to be ‘real’. While the YouTube scene is full of this stuff (Flat Earth, Masons, Saturn / Demiurge / Saturn, New World Order, etc), no one talks about these things from a cultivation perspective and it’s really hard to get a picture that is truly righteous and ‘sober’.

– I made a twitter account for reinhardschleining and draftmagazine (dubbed clownfactory). link and check if you like.

– Reactivated facebook but can’ be bothered to update or check. Deinstalling the sniffer app from tablet as well.

– Am most active on eBay (reinhard_schleining) with my numismatic project. Those following know that such path had been given to me a while ago. Since money is the only bottom line left to us ‘mortals’ now, it’s probably interesting to see how an artist and writer approaches such matters. Should one or the other bargain draws your attention and tickles your fancy, you’re very welcome to establish karmic ties through a purchase.

– And lastly, I’m cultivating diligently (Falun Gong exercises and Dafa Law Wheel discernment) while during any spare time practicing my shading and black and white rendering skills with the tip of the brush, as they used to say. I’m hoping to very soon show my painting skills with the same confidence that I used to show my drawing skills with.

And that is that. Let’s see what I’ll keep you updated with here. Since I’m running a strict anti-vanity policy, I won’t post ‘from the bus’ (as the tagline of the new wp app clamours). Instead, I’ll attempt to rationally keep you updated in such a way that I feel gives you a fair chance to find a loophole through the closing net of persecution and deception.

Vienna and London, Autumn 2017

GODDESSES & DEMONESSES

so here are the new drawings that i’ve been promising people for a while – the series of nudes dedicated to gustav klimt’s 150th birthday. in terms of content and style they’re very much representative of what i’m now doing in my visual work. in terms of the larger and deeper reverbrations they’re probably some sort of seed spread to achieve some sort of insight. they actually felt like coming  to life while i’d carve them out of the paper. ah – and they’re not ‘good’ and ‘bad’, for sure. whether goddess or demoness, they’re both a deity. particularly in this case, they’re all sweet and i guess rooted into the ‘law’, if only metaphorically :)

as to the packaging and presentation, i herewith grant license to download and print them in the below form of publication. i also use them this way as promotional stickers on the street etc in a nicely laminated piece to peel off and collect or re-stick. what i’ve tried to do with the coloured corner tag is to turn the table on purchasing and pricing policies / strategies / habits and raise two questions at once:

how much would we freely pay for an item like this, for content, craftmanship, artistic value, cultural impact, gnostic wisdom, impact of subject matter –  and last not least, as a future / investment / option?

and

how much is really ‘needed’ for us to buy into anything that we desire to obtain / possess – a car, a travel card, a pint of bitter, gas, ice cream,  the internet – up to an apartment, country, sex, husband or wife?

there is of course also the issue on the spiritual level: how can one possibly ever pay for truth and true knowledge and true values or in other words anything coming form the depth of the heart … anyway,  you get the idea.

to put money where the mouth is i’ve set up a paypal interface here

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if you’re happy to look and click, then have fun, rejoice and enjoy!

i’m back to finishing those three novels now …

london, july 2012

CITYSCAPES

finally the long awaited CITYSCAPES series. these five pictures are a definite milestone for me as they officially introduce another STYLE to my portfolio. i’ve found that i quite like the raw, spontaneous feel of the original pencil drawings and therefore decided to cut the ink and get them straight into photoshop. i’ve started to work like this much earlier already (with my POLITICAL CARTOONS from 2003) but for some reason only now, about four years later, it all of a sudden makes sense for my actual illustration work as well. the new style allows me to loosen up the sometimes too perfect, almost ‘anal’ ligne claire artwork (a lot of people repeatedly ask me whether it’s been done on a computer) and it subtly moves me away from the semi-annoying graphic novel connotations i’m often getting.

anyway, i feel very excited about these. hope you guys like them as well :)

AIRPORTHARBOURTRAIN STATIONUNDERGROUNDBUS STOP

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about what i do

When I try to summarize what I’m doing then I feel that I’m producing some kind of ‘cultural-spiritual code’ with my work which I’m spelling out to be read and understood by as many people from as many backgrounds as possible. While Words are my starting point and ultimately main focus, I do like to indulge in the freedom to float seamlessly between both cornerstones of my work: Writing & Drawing. Doing this, embedding Gnosis / Knowledge into Images and Words (Gnosticism), means passing on Encoded Wisdom to be decoded by fellow seekers of Beauty and Truth – according to their  own level of Understanding and Attainment.

In an attempt to pinpoint what subject matter interests me then I think I’d have to say it’s  mostly about People and Reality. Following an inherent quest for Truth and Love, I’ve been to a great deal looking at the world through the lens of Humanistic Psychology and Psychological Astrology. More recently, this lens has eventually zeroed in to be the Great Law of the Cosmos (or Dafa in Chinese), a law encompassing both the Dao and the Buddha School. It is thus, that Cultivation has proven itself to be the true basis of whatever I do – and have been doing all along – and that therefore the Unfathomable and Supernatural, rather than the Tangible and Explicable, is more often than not providing the answers that I’ve been looking for.

In any of my work, I want to delve deep into both the Beauty and Mystery of Human Life and Human Experience and come back to the surface with the Trophies of what I’ve seen and still can see – the Stories, the Images – but at the same time I’m also extremely fascinated by the Darker Side of our Reality and – albeit even scarier – of Ultimate Reality. The behind-the-scene workings of Fate and Destiny, the ‘political’ aspects and psycho-mechanics of human relationships, the intricate power games between men and men, women and women and – on the highest, most subtle and most mysterious level – between women and men. And the ultimate pointlessness of our human suffering and the ludicrous ‘struggle’ for relevance which continue to tear apart our hearts and our planet – essentially just perpetuating the so-called psychological ‘Cycle of Abuse’.

But also Humour is quite an important element of my work.

Influences:

Li Hongzhi, Hans Kueng, Rabbi Hillel, David Bohm, Eric Berne, Robert Graves, Douglas Reed, Jonathan Franzen, Bret Easton Ellis, Julia Davis, Charles Bukowski, Pauline Reage, Michel Houellebecq, Vladimir Nabokov, Todd Solondz, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Sacha Baron Cohen, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luis Bunuel, Lars von Trier, Ingmar Bergman, Alexandro Jodorowski, Trevor Brown, Stu Mead, Ferocius, Moebius, Robert Crumb, Steve Bell, Geoff Darrow, Gottfried Helnwein, Gustav Klimt, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Piet Mondrian, Paul Gaugin, Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco de Goya, Leonardo da Vinci, Pieter Breughel, Hieronymus Bosch, Giotto, Medieval Book Illustrations, Egyptian Art, Cave Drawings, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Shakyamuni, Hermes Trimegistos, (to name only a few) …

reinhard schleining
london, january 2012