IAM is an online gallery and artists community committed to a vision of the healing and awakening of human consciousness through art. To find out who We Are, we encourage you to meet some of our member artists.

IAM was founded by three people: Ilsa Ananda (aka Lisa Clayton), PanDoor (aka Logos, aka Jim Genaro), and Muniyama. The day to day operations of the company are run by PanDoor and Ilsa. Below, you can find our bios and reasons for starting the company.

Ilsa Ananda

I have always flirted heavily with the various forms that art can take. I have painted, acted, played musical instruments, written poetry and prose, sketched, built, sculpted, drawn on skin, sang, made costumes, danced, and even learned circus arts such as aerials and hula hoop. I thought that art was destined to be a hobby for me, reserved for times when I was not working to pay bills, until a crisis at age 29 led me to run away and join a circus in England. It was here, in the big top, that I learned that Art is as much a part of life for me as breathing. I found that when I wasn’t either dreaming or creating, I was suffocating. This realization led me to restructure my life around having the freedom to create.

At this same time, a spiritual reawakening was taking place, an aspect of my personality that had gotten buried in the mundane reality that was my daily life as a web designer. The psychedelic and visionary callings of my youth came back to me as if they never left, and ideas began to flood my mind like a river. Now I see that art and vision are different aspects of the same spirit.

I see my former life as a web designer not as wasted time, but as a period of learning and gestation. For many years, I looked around at all the brilliant artists I always seemed to be meeting, and wished I could help them. Many had no idea how to promote their work, and even less idea of how to use technology in an artistic way to help them do this. When I realized that I had the knowledge and ability to help them, the idea for an online gallery, webspace, and artists’ community was born in me. When I first met my love and partner, PanDoor, we found out we both had wanted to do this for some time. He even had a wonderful name: Intuitive Arts Multimedia. The idea germinated for almost a year, and is now quickly on its way to manifestation.

My hope and intention with IAM is to create a company that enables artists to dedicate more and more of their time to the act of creation. Their creation will add to the depth and beauty and diversity of the IAM gallery, which will in turn provide even more abundance for the artists, allowing them to create even more. I also wish to give artists a space in which new and unique ideas can develop. Technology offers such a blank canvas with which we can develop emerging artforms, and I am excited to help push the envelope on what is possible. By connecting artists of all disciplines and encouraging them to work together, I hope to foster a collective consciousness that will dream of things we could not imagine alone.

In addition to IAM, I plan to continue to be a jack-of-all-trades, and to flirt with various artistic disciplines that catch my fancy. My current projects include writing music collaboratively with my partner, designing digital art for a circus tarot deck, writing a series of books, and building an art-car/mutant vehicle in the form of two Pegasus towing a gypsy wagon pirate-space ship.

 

PanDoor

Intuitive Arts Multimedia is about intention. It’s about taking the creative process out of the studio or workshop and into the outer world. When I first started dialoguing with Muniyama, and later Ilsa about the project, two themes kept coming to mind.

The first was the realization that I lived in a wonderful community of very talented artists who, by and large, didn’t know the first thing about how to promote and sell their works. Many of these people would work all day building houses, waiting tables, or doing other day jobs to support themselves, and then work late into the evening on their art form. It seemed to me that a much more desirable goal was for our art forms to sustain our lives (and vice-versa).

The second theme, which was much more esoteric, had to do with the simplicity of the name, I AM. In my spiritual training, I had come to realize the profundity of this simples statement. “I AM” is the essence that remains once the raiment of identity has been cast off. I am a musician. I am a man. I am an American. These things are all true, and they describe the story I am enacting in this life. But they are all incomplete descriptions, hollow husks around my being. Only one statement describes my true nature: I AM.

For me, this points to my ultimate intention with Intuitive Arts Multimedia: to help others and myself to know our true essence. Because creativity leads to self-awareness, and awareness leads to greater creativity. And when that creativity is reflected back to us through the mirror of others, it helps us to see beyond illusion, beyond our limited identity into our truest nature. I create, therefore, I am.

 

Muniyama

Intuitive arts multimedia is a vision that many artists share. That is a gallery and production company that is run by artists for artists. My role is mainly as a visionary artist with a seed idea. Many things are born of an organic process in which a shared vision comes in different forms to many people. In actuality, it already exists in time and space and is burgeoning on taking physical form. Our intuitive mind feels this presence. It perceives its vibrational nature. This in turn energizes the creative minds of attuned individuals. This materializes as inspiration and, after some relative laboring, an idea is born. I AM is this kind of creative endeavor.

 

 

 

 
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