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Adam Pacio
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Artist, Writer, World Builder, Gamer, LGBTQ Activist, Modern Occultist, Fantasy Cartographer, Manhattan NYC Contrarian committed to Life Out Loud. Recovering from a stroke, reinventing life as a creator.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Even the torchbearer needs rest. 🔥
You can't pour from an empty cup or fight for a better world without a safe harbor.
This is your base camp. Wrap yourself in your ideals. We have work to do tomorrow.
Find sanctuary: 👉 AdamPacio.com
#Liberty #RestIsResistance #AdamPacioArt
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Navigating the world of art can feel daunting, especially when it seems pretentious. Discover three key things to look for in artwork that can guide your opinions and spark conversation—even at dinner parties! #ArtAppreciation #ModernArt #CulturalConversation #ArtCritique
Screenshot essay titled 'Three Things You Can Always Look For In Considering a New Artwork When You Don't Know Where to Start With Something You Honestly Kinda Think Is Pretentious, Or At Least, Above Your Current Tax Bracket.' The essay discusses the perceived pretentiousness of art, contrasting established art institutions with unconventional art pieces. It provides humorous commentary on the challenges of discussing art at social gatherings and offers three key observations: 'Gasp & Ooh,' which captures the visual surprise and appreciation; 'Bowouf?', representing the confusion in unexpected artistic elements; and 'Loud Silence,' highlighting moments of contemplation. The essay concludes with practical advice on how to respond to inquiries about art.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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It’s hard juggling a business AND finding time to keep making the art that matters to me. I need to start putting in the time on the art FIRST. Here’s tonight’s WIP on The Obsidian Grandmothers Mandala.
rainbow petroglyphs of 'the grandmothers', manifesting rainbow hues across the spectrum and delivering lightning bolts of realization into the beehive necklace of Amber and Jet, symbolizing life. Work in Progress. A rainbow spectrum ribbon encircles the Grandmothers.
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Feeling burnt out? 💥 Discover why "powering through" can harm your productivity and why taking breaks is your best strategy! Your brain, body, and choices will thank you. 🧠✨ #Productivity #MentalHealth #WorkLifeBalance #SelfCare
Screenshot essay titled 'Four Reasons Why "Powering Through" is a Scam and Taking a Break is Actual Strategy'. The essay discusses the negative impacts of neglecting rest, illustrated by a personal story of suffering health consequences from overwork. It critiques the notion of relentless productivity with metaphors about vehicles and brain function. The text emphasizes four key arguments: 1. The brain requires downtime to process information effectively; 2. Individuals are not disposable, and taking breaks is essential for long-term productivity; 3. Napping represents a rejection of a productivity-focused economy, asserting personal control; 4. Fatigue impairs decision-making, thus breaks help restore clarity and focus.
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#mandalas #holidaygiftguide #melektaus #peacock #peacockangel
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Discover how Carl Jung harnessed the power of mandalas for personal healing and order! From daily art therapy to creating sacred spaces, explore the transformative role of these circles in navigating life's chaos. #arttherapy #mandala #jung
Screenshot essay titled 'Three Ways that Carl Jung Used Mandalas to Help Put Life in Order.' The text discusses Carl Jung's use of mandalas for personal expression and therapy. Key points include: 1) Daily Art Therapy, where Jung painted mandalas each morning as part of his healing process; 2) The significance of the circular format, referred to as 'Magic Circle,' which symbolizes a sacred space for integrating chaos into order; 3) The Instinct of Self Preservation, where Jung believed circles offer a defensive boundary for the psyche, representing safety and control over one's reality.
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Solar Disc Velveteen Plush Blanket in my Holiday Warmth Collection - direct product link below. #mandala #holidaygiftideas #blanket #velveteenplush
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Curious about modern Mandala art? Discover four essential insights that bridge its rich cultural roots in Nepal and Tibet with its contemporary applications in the West. Dive into the world of creativity, mindfulness, and self-discovery! #artist #mandala #mandalaartist #arthistory
Screenshot essay titled 'Four Things to Keep In Mind When Appreciating Modern Mandala Art For Curious Westerners & Non-Buddhists'. The text discusses the author's experience as a NYC artist exploring Mandala art. It outlines four key points: 1. Definition in Language - explaining the meaning of Mandala as 'Circle' in Sanskrit. 2. Folk Art Origins - detailing how Mandalas are a category of Nepalese and Tibetan tangkas, arranged geometrically for meditation. 3. Buddhist Guided Visualizations - describing Mandalas as tools in Tibetan Buddhism for visualization and Western occult practices. 4. Art Therapy and Mindfulness Tools - highlighting Carl Jung's use of Mandalas in art therapy for self-awareness and patient treatment.
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Stylized Quote: "Color is a power which directly influences the soul." Citation: Wassily Kandinsky, In: Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1977. Logo bottom: AP in a mandala sketch, Logotype: AdamPacio.com. Artist Website, Gift Shop, and Gallery.
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Taking a break from Mandalas, learning Procreate instead from James Julier!
#jamesjulierart #procreate #digitalpaintinglessons #WIP
A tutorial drawing in procreate. The sky, clouds, and then working from far away and getting closer layer by layer, back to front landscape style. Faraway trees, yellow meadow, midground trees rendered. More as the tutorial finishes out. James Julier Art tutorials.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Disappointed with Gemini 3 despite following AI advice for my creative ventures. Why does it keep fixating on past conversations? Discover my struggles and frustrations with AI's business strategy capabilities. #artist #giftshop #ai #business
Screenshot essay titled 'I'm still not impressed with Gemini 3. Here's why.' The text discusses the author's post-stroke experience of reinventing themselves by using AI for business strategies and creative ventures. Despite following advice from Gary Vee to embrace AI, the author expresses disappointment in Gemini 3's performance, describing it as unimpressive and likening it to a 'MehComputer.' The author struggles with Gemini 3's inability to provide useful business strategies, often reminding it of their lack of specific assets it refers to. The essay highlights frustrations with Gemini 3's repetitive focus on past conversations and its overall reliability, concluding with skepticism about AI's capability beyond being a search engine.
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Stylized quote: Show me an angel, and I will paint one. Attribution: Gustave Courbet, Instigator of the Modern Art Movement Logo: AP AdamPacio.com, Artist Website, Gallery & Gift Shop
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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My brain has too many tabs open. 🤯

If yours does too, you need a sanctuary. I designed these blankets to be a physical "off switch" for the noise.

Art you can wrap yourself in.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I got depressed because I was spending all my time working on marketing, and not ANY time working on my Art.

Time to interrupt the chaos with a simple return the Center of my soul's oxygen. It felt good to work a mandala again.
a golden circle background with a pointed primitive slab of obsidian. A stained glass rosette in the center of a magnolia blossom ringed by the beehive necklace of Amber and Jet of a Wiccan High Priestess. Etched in rainbow hues dancing in the darkness of the Obsidian Slab of the Outer Spaces Void are the petroglyphic figures which have introduced themselves to me as simply "The Grandmothers" and which have been a bit picky about the shape and treatment of the lightning bolts of epiphany and destruction which touch the round of rebirth from their skirts. The painting continues.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Feeling overwhelmed by AI hype? Discover three hard-earned lessons from my journey using Google Gemini to launch my online art business. Spoiler: AI isn't the magic solution it claims to be! #artist #mandala #mandalaartist #entrepreneur
A screenshot of an essay titled 'Three Things I Learned Trying to Use AI to Help Launch My Online Art Business For Other Sole Proprietors Feeling Left Behind By All the AI Hype'. The essay discusses practical lessons learned through the author's experience with AI, particularly Google Gemini 3, in launching an art business. It highlights three key insights: 1) The importance of regular summaries and manual backups to prevent data corruption; 2) The necessity of spot-checking data integrity throughout the process to catch errors early; and 3) An observation that AI tends to generate solutions based on assumptions about available resources, which may not align with the user's actual situation. The author concludes by expressing disappointment in AI's current capabilities despite some helpful aspects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Since I've somehow ended up becoming a NYC Geometrical Abstractionist painter, and I never did take many Art History courses, that I'd better really start backfilling in my Modern Art Education, and quickly.

What better way than with a year's membership to MoMA? SIgned up yesterday.
photo of the entrance to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan with revolving doors and reflective glass showing the street traffic in reflection against the interior of the Museum.
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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an image of text that says '[Α Mandala] is, above all, a map of ofthe cosmos. It is the whole universe in its essential plan, in its process of femanation, and re-absorption. Theory and Practice of the Mandala, 1961 Giuseppe Tucci AdamPacio.com Artist Website, Gallery& Gift Shop'
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Discover the intriguing life of Giuseppe Tucci, a pivotal figure in the study of Mandalas in Buddhist and Hindu art. His complex legacy intertwines scholarship with politics—uncover the facts that shaped his impact!

#artist #mandala #mandalaartist #studioblog
A screenshot essay titled '4 Important Facts About Italian Scholar Giuseppe Tucci For Understanding The History Of The Mandala Tradition in Buddhist and Hindu Sacred Art.' The body contains four key points: 1) Tucci was an Italian scholar (1894-1984) who contributed to Buddhist Studies in Western academia. 2) He supported Italian Fascism and used his scholarship to propagate romanticized views of the East. 3) His expeditions to Tibet in the 1920s and 1940s yielded valuable ethnographic studies and intercultural exchanges, with his texts still being essential in Tibetology. 4) In 1961, he published 'The Theory and Practice of the Mandala,' introducing the concept of Mandalas in Western studies, which remains significant today.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I've been studying up on the roots of Mandalas in the 800's CE and ran into their roots as 'thangka', Nepalese folk paintings on silk and fabric.

Here's a great 10 minute video showcasing a recent thangka exhibition:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcH-...
A gallery displaying several thangka Buddhist fabric paintings, from Tibet. Blue walls, blonde-colored hardwood floors. Wall displays with small railings containing art notes.
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Discover the rich history of mandalas, from their origins in 800s CE Tibetan Thangka painting to their modern use in art therapy. Explore how this vibrant tradition continues to inspire artists today! #artist #mandala #mandalaartist #studioblog
A screenshot essay titled 'Three Essential Facts About The Art History Origin of Mandalas'. The text explains that 'Mandala' means 'Circle' or 'Center' in Sanskrit and has been used in the West for meditation and contemplation. It discusses three origins of Mandalas: 1) They began in the 800s CE as part of Thangkas, a painting tradition in Northern India, Nepal, and Tibet. 2) Tibetan Buddhist Thangkas focused on geometric shapes to symbolize the universe while meditating. 3) Thangka painting remains a living tradition, exemplified by artists like Dr. Sarika Singh, who is recognized for her contributions to this art form. The essay emphasizes the importance of respecting the origins of Mandala art in its practice.
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM