AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LAWRENCE "TURK" LE CLAIR               Page 8.
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Organic Food - Change my bio-chemistry. Read Zen macrobiotics by Ohsawa.
Lower East Side - I rent a big loft with 5 rooms on the top floor of
an old theatre building. The theatre has been closed for
years. On the floor below me live 2 artists and their band
with 2 women singers. Vina, a women painter, Luigi.
a painter from Naples, Italy, Kentt and Dan Propper
and work in my studio. Danny calls it
"God Factory" Paint a mandala 6'x9'
Kozmozlogikal Koo-Koo Klok." College and acrylic. Start making the
Book of my head.
Nude Body Painting movie by a cameraman who had worked with Fellini.
		All us painters painted the band and each other.
"Feathered Sharks" - also filmed the (see photos in the end of the
		Book of my Head and Journal III)
"Sphinx with 2 Faces" - Painting for night club in East Village.
"The Cave."
Big Brother and the Holding Co. rehearse at my loft while they're in
		town.
"The Knower", the 3rd painting from the tarot reading of the Tribes
		is started (11'x7'). My New Age man.
"The Hog Farm", Jan. 1968. I move to L.A. Live in a tepee on the Hog
		Farm. Hugh Romney runs the Farm. He also has a new name.
Wavy Gravy. I help with the light show and building domes:
Band Bus Mural. "High on the Hog." The Hog Farm people have many
painted busses. They all leave for Chicago and the Democratic
Convention, then on to Woodstock.
Topanga Canyon - I tattoo the symbol for OM on the back of My left
hand. I also tattoo an Ankh, the Egyptian cross. on a woman's 
ankle.
Venice West - Continue painting "The Knower". I now realize I've been
working on this idea for years. I begin to empty my Journals
onto the canvas. It is my own cosmological self-portrait.
The mystic Symbols I use include:

New Age Tarot - Knower & Citadel
I Ching - Hexagrams border the painting
Hebrew - the Kabala, seal of Solomon
Hinduism
Islam
Hopis
Subud
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Elvish - language from the Lord of the Rings
Mu
Atlantis
Alchemy
Greeks
Magic alphabets
Puzzles
Peyote drawinge
Visions
Auras
Chakras
Buddhism
Dali's moon
Klee's sun
Dreams

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