American Watercolor
AMERICAN WATERCOLOR

PROTOTYPES 6.3 × 10.3 in (16 × 26 cm)

POLYPTYCHS 37.8 × 61.4 in (96 × 156 cm)

POLYPTYCH OF 36 ASSEMBLED PROTOTYPES

  • The one who was ignorant was not so by mistake, but because their spirit was blind.
  • Therefore, when the fire was kindled, they saw with an eye that had never seen.
  • Ignorance dissolved into the smoke, and as if it had never existed, it vanished in an instant.
  • The Gospel of Truth. The Nag Hammadi Library.

The chapters below were transcribed by M. Vilaspasa using a blue quill that the man with the jay’s head had dropped during the first ceremony.
The text is translated into American English, then automatically by the site into other languages, including French.

BOOK l

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  1. Thus, in the starry night of June 20, 2020
  2. In a cave, shrouded in darkness, on the northern coast of the island of Ibiza
  3. I drank from the cup the Acacia Magia, the thorn and its root, and saw divine visions
  4. The Poniente blew upon my eyes, and they closed
  5. I saw a fiery storm, red and white, and in the midst, a fire
  6. The flame was a vehicle, illuminating the sky and its universe
  7. It approached me in a silent curve, and I trembled with fear
  8. Time stopped, a man with a jay’s head revealed himself in the light
  9. He was the vision far away, two wings enveloped his body
  10. Then a woman appeared, dressed in an purple veil, the sun in her red hair
  11. In her hands, the revealed knowledge, the quintessence of hearts, a memory
  12. She was the source and the delta, her name was Maa, and she spoke to me in thought

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  1. Olivier, you have seen beyond the ephemeral, open your eyes
  2. Look at the book and write, chapter after chapter, what I will reveal
  3. Contact those who have forgotten me and those who cannot see me
  4. For the first ones, the oaths of childhood have been devoured by the matter
  5. The others are young shepherds who do not yet know the morning star
  6. They dwell in doubt and await a sign of fire
  7. You will show your watercolors, but few will open their eyelids
  8. Let your right hand be guided by the spirit of your left hand
  9. Then the smoke from your paintings will sow images in the clouds
  10. Water has the power to ignite the consciousness of the sleeper
  11. To give sight to the one who was blind
  12. The visions will be revealed by the one who desires to be awakened
  13. North of Ibiza (Spain), June 21, 2020

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  1. As the sun set, I drank the cup of divine milk and opened my eyes
  2. The vehicle appeared, five luminous pentagrams meeting at the 12 vertices
  3. Maa was seated in the midst of green flames and she said to me
  4. Watercolorist, you are the painter of inner visions
  5. When you will present your images, they will burn for the one who sees
  6. By creating within the smoke, the one who sees will open their eyes
  7. The images will be revealed through spontaneous contemplation
  8. By disrupting what should be, another will be uncovered
  9. Like an apparition, images have the power to open the eye completely
  10. As a discreet agent, this light seeps toward the center
  11. n order to awaken the sleeper into a lucid dream
  12. It restores sight to the one who desires to see the top seen from the bottom and the bottom seen from the top
  13. North of Ibiza (Spain), September 17, 2020

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  1. The jay spoke to me and began to circle around me in a hum of blue wings
  2. The water will lead you, you will paint the visions on damp paper
  3. It is the hand that shapes your painting, become spectator
  4. Arabic gum in water will be your medium
  5. The paper will be stretched over a sycamore wooden board
  6. A brush made of white rabbit hair to disperse the ink and pigments
  7. Let the water flow through time, for it is through time that chaos unfolds
  8. You will measure the prototype in a harmonious dimension
  9. The size will be adapted for both the eye and the journey, suitable for a close-up view and distant travel
  10. The prototype will be enlarged into a polyptych of 36 panels
  11. Each panel will be independent, but once assembled, it will form the whole
  12. The panels will remain movable so that they can be disassembled for the journey
  13. North of Ibiza (Spain), December 30, 2020

V

  1. While I was infusing the root up to its spine
  2. I lifted my eyes and saw the blue jay on one of the pillars
  3. It spread its wings and carried me into a nocturnal vision
  4. The darkness became ethereal, the night of an iridescent azure
  5. Watercolorist, put away your brushes by day, paint after midnight
  6. Paint in solitude, only a gecko might observe you
  7. It’s a moment of intimacy and creation within oneself
  8. Dive into this nocturnal water like a rope into an open mouth
  9. Let the pigment engulf the line, become color, and then transparency
  10. Become fluidity and decomposition yourself, for the duration of a downpour
  11. To the opposing twins, to your right eye and to your left eye, you shall say
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    North of Ibiza (Spain), February 27, 2021

VI

  1. Beloved, Maa continued, take some paper and paint the visions
  2. Let the river of fire flow from your brush
  3. As the smoke rises to the sky, forming clouds
  4. Allow the silty water to overflow and become a flood
  5. And see the soluble dye invaded by the chaos of dissolution
  6. A blurry mutation will grow under your gaze
  7. An apparition born from the water, like a gift to the child
  8. An eternal prayer for a revelation
  9. A powder projected into a wedding wine
  10. The transformation of death into morning
  11. The fire is splendid in the burning color
  12. It’s a theater in flames, an eternal prayer, it’s also childhood
  13. North of Ibiza (Spain), March 27, 2021

VII

  1. Have garments sewn in Egyptian black linen, without buttons or accessories
  2. For your pilgrim’s feet, wear leather sandals
  3. Let your hair grow and gather it at the highest point
  4. Travel light, the superfluous would weigh down your presence and slow down your quest
  5. Two trunks will suffice for your watercolors and painting supplies
  6. Display your images made of water and pigments for everyone to see
  7. The vision is inside a cube called a prototype, in essence
  8. Once unfolded, it becomes a polyptych, multiplying the visions by the number 6
  9. The polyptychs will be assembled during a ceremony to form the complete image
  10. Unroll the 36 prototypes in a spiral, starting from the top-right and moving towards the center
  11. They will be built in reverse to the flow of time and deconstructed in the opposite direction
  12. Then place them out of sight between two black sycamore boards
  13. North of Ibiza (Spain), May 11, 2021

VIII

  1. In the tranquility of a garden planted with roses and carob trees
  2. I continued to paint the watercolors after midnight
  3. Chess games with my brother Juan, the philosopher gardener
  4. The flower was picked, and the seed was weighed in the north of Ibiza
  5. Then a card was drawn, adorned with a Spanish key, without a name or number
  6. Who, I am sure, opens and closes the doors of destiny
  7. So I went down the double spiral staircase
  8. Those going up and those going down cross paths
  9. Without ever seeing each other in the encounter
  10. They produce effects through causes in accordance with the law
  11. The fragrance of the Poniente blew along the path
  12. I went out through the garden gate, the third year, on St. John’s Day
  13. North of Ibiza (Spain), August 22, 2021

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  1. And I heard the bird whisper to me, write the chapters, reveal the visions
  2. Master your language because it is your watercolors that speak
  3. And it is the vision of the other that will matter to you, for he will thirst for this water
  4. Free your mind, for it is through your arms that I will show you
  5. They will ask you for meaning and rationality
  6. And your response will be a question
  7. Do you see within the swirls of smoke?
  8. The one who sees will be a seer with knowledge born of childhood
  9. And the non-seer will consider themselves educated and cultured
  10. The experience of the image is a convergence at the top
  11. Seized by an invisible intuition, a clairvoyance
  12. It’s about illuminating the water through fire for the one who wishes to see
  13. North of Ibiza (Spain), November 4, 2021

X

  1. The golden arrow turns, guiding you on your pat
  2. Opposing energies forge the spirit in incarnation
  3. The cosmos when you want it in a drop of water
  4. Earth and sky in one presence
  5. A sacred wheel, time by the star at its center
  6. 2 letters for the substance that will be dissolved
  7. Reversed in a revelation by the number
  8. It contains in the words a great truth
  9. It spins invisible in a circle of water
  10. It is a nocturnal dream, that of cyclical time
  11. Your watercolors are a language of fire carried by pigmented water
  12. It is the breath that moves without Words, a knowledge revealed
  13. North of Ibiza (Spain), february 19, 2022

XI

  1. I will place the words in the palm of your hand
  2. I will hold your mouth half-open, for the word will belong to the one who sees
  3. Look at the infinity that crowns my head and the ivy that winds around yours
  4. Art exerts a considerable influence, akin to a solar disruption
  5. Like an eruption, the pigments in the water have the power to ignite consciousness
  6. An opening towards the prototype and capable of performing miracles
  7. The images reveal themselves to the observer through the power of eternal awe
  8. Be patient, for your second revolution is approaching, do not despair
  9. Show courage and determination for this quest
  10. Let your fear come, it will course through your entire being, reaching the tips of your fingers
  11. Until the end of your brush spreading colored water, you will let fear unfold
  12. Let the fear saturate the sheet of paper, and by morning, it will have been revealed
  13. Paris (France), April 30, 2022

XII

  1. In the maze of the kasbah of Tangier, you cast a different gaze
  2. Suspended between sky and earth, between two worlds
  3. Between the time of childhood in Tangier and the coagulation of what you are going to become
  4. It’s a reversal of currents; accept this new law
  5. In a reversal of your choice
  6. An interworld, one foot set toward a new resolution
  7. It’s a necessary moment of introspection
  8. Taking ownership of oneself by looking inward
  9. To project outward what you have seen in the light
  10. Look within, it’s the mirror of art
  11. Your right eye looks at its left eye and your left hand becomes right
  12. And the hand that paints, in the mirror, becomes the one that thinks
  13. Tangier (Morocco), June 14, 2023

XIII

  1. Silent is the desert of the Meseta where you died
  2. Through the arid lands of Spain, in the field of stars
  3. You fell into the spiraling mouth that turns around your silence
  4. An abyss of shadows where even light bows and vanishes
  5. The archer in eternity, silent guardian of the ages, at the heart of the constellation
  6. But it is the dissolution that comes, the decomposition of what constituted you
  7. You will dive into the waters of the night, where the illusions of an extinguished world float
  8. A necessary descent toward a deeper self
  9. Then, in the morning, between the two waters of the strait, you will emerge anew
  10. Your head will roll in the waves of Blaras beach
  11. As in Fisterra, you will abandon the other, the double trouble
  12. A kiss suspended in the brilliance, the intensity of a fleeting moment
  13. Tangier (Morocco), October 28, 2023

XlIlI

  1. You will swirl the wine of Volubilis in the mixed waters waters of the strait
  2. The currents must flow again, an illumination comes
  3. Return to the world, for the sun returns and will soon be at its peak
  4. Go like the rain invoked by the eyes of the thirsty
  5. The last night of April in the burning flame of the first day of May
  6. Cast sparks to ignite the spirits of those who seek me
  7. For the year ahead, you will first immerse yourself in the great river of Egypt
  8. You will immerse yourself for a baptism, transforming what once constituted you
  9. Keep the memory of what you were, forget what you were about to become
  10. A transformation is coming, leaving the ruins behind for a new beginning
  11. You were Olivier, but we will call you by M, for it is through M that you have passed
  12. And it is through the A of the golden arrow that you will find your direction
  13. Tangier (Morocco), March 25, 2024

M Tangier (Morocco), December 1, 2024

XV

  1. Faintly, the man with the jay’s head revealed his name to me and asked me to keep it hidden
  2. In silence, as my left hand opened, he painted a translucent eye with gum arabic
  3. Reaching out, he placed the brush, which he called Sayfsura, in my right hand
  4. Ender the scale of visions and operations, the blue jay carefully balanced them
  5. As the process unfolded, the water and pigments of the prototype were measured
  6. Nested within the geometry, the crucible was prepared to access the golden crucible of proportion
  7. Deep in the earth, as the colors dissolve, seven pigments coagulate in the water
  8. With the first revolution, mark well: the second will occur in your fifty-ninth year
  9. A thousand days have passed, and a new morning is coming soon
  10. Visible through the mists, a couple of experts will come to assist you
  11. Examine them closely, for you will recognize them by their hands; they will bond with yours
  12. Soon, in the twilight, you will see their light, and ensemble, you will ignite the fire of creation
  13. Edfu, (Egypt), January 14, 2025, at midnight

XVI

  1. At the Acacia Magia, I added a bit of bitter fig juice
  2. After a few minutes, my first thought was that the sycamore tree was on fire
  3. It was a blazing flame, and the garden was lit up as if it were midday
  4. The reddening leaves rose into the night and fell back down without burning
  5. A voice spoke to me from among the branches in an unknown language
  6. M, here you are in the land of ruins, of those who have fallen and shall be no more
  7. Here once grew the date palm, the vine, the sycamore fig, and the olive tree
  8. Gardens of beauty, prepared with care and delicacy
  9. Behold the disaster and the dust, a luminous city extinguished in the black earth
  10. The third term of nature is coming to an end, the last fruits will be scarce
  11. For it is by fire that the trees will suffer, it is by the fire from the sky that they will perish
  12. Paint the flowers in flames, the pillars of smoke coloring the clouds
  13. El Matareya, Cairo (Egypt), February 13, 2025, at midnight

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