- Flows
- Public artwork
- Buddha Meets Noggles in Psychedelia
Buddha Meets Noggles in Psychedelia
Artist Jotchi kicks off trippy Nounish mural with meditative sketch
5 min read
Key facts
- 1Artist Jotchi has shared the first sketch for a 'Nounish Trippy Mural' project
- 2The design features a Buddha-like figure wearing Noggles in a meditative pose
- 3The sketch is preliminary, with more elements to be added before final design
- 4The planned mural will be 7-12 feet tall in a public space
The Dark Birth of Nounish Psychedelia
In the twisted underbelly of the art world, where hallucinatory visions meet public walls, something strange is brewing. Artist Jotchi has unleashed the first fevered sketch of what promises to be a mind-warping collision of Eastern spirituality and digital culture – a 'Nounish Trippy Mural' that's already bending reality at its edges.
The preliminary drawing, a sepia-toned fever dream captured on humble sketchbook paper, reveals a Buddha-like figure corrupted by the addition of those unmistakable Noggles – square, pixelated glasses that brand the meditation master as an initiate into the Noun tribe. The figure sits in traditional pose, one hand raised in blessing or perhaps warning, surrounded by vaporous clouds that could be incense smoke or the fumes of something far more potent.
Dreams, Chemicals, and Paint-Stained Reality
By late March, Jotchi was hoarding supplies like an apocalypse prepper with an art fetish. A cardboard box overflowed with paint cans – some fresh, some stained veterans of previous murals – ready to transform vision into hallucinatory reality. "I've purchased new paints in advance for the mural. And I still have some left over paint from my past murals that I can reuse," he declared, already seeing psychedelic visions dance across his chosen canvas.
Buddha Rising from Chemical Mists
A week later, the mural has erupted from the wall – a pulsating, yellow-hued Buddha emerging from a swirling vortex of reddish-brown and spectral white. The serene face, closed eyes, and black curly hair float in cosmic meditation, one hand raised in mystical gesture while the other rests in cosmic contemplation. The Buddha's expression radiates both ancient wisdom and modern trippiness, a disorienting fusion of millennium-old imagery and contemporary psychedelia.
Jotchi, wearing the Noggles that mark him as both creator and subject, stands before his chemical fever dream, throwing peace signs and reporting "40% progress" – an arbitrary number that could mean anything in the altered state of artistic creation. "I'll be adding a Nouns character and Noggles afterward," he promised, revealing the twisted inspirational source: "This concept came to life because of my admiration towards buddha characters i see in movies."
Fear, Loathing, and Creative Ambition
"This isn't final yet and I will probably add more elements to it," Jotchi confessed through digital channels, the words of an artist clearly aware they've only scratched the surface of this hallucinatory rabbit hole. The mural, when fully manifested on a public wall, will stand 7-12 feet tall – a monolithic testament to what happens when ancient wisdom collides with digital-age symbolism.
Jotchi, no stranger to the mural game with approximately ten large-scale pieces already haunting public spaces, has promised to transform this embryonic sketch into a full psychedelic experience over a 4-7 week gestation period. The unsuspecting public will be confronted by bold colors, strong lines, and playful elements that Jotchi has made their signature – a visual assault that makes no apologies for its trippy nature or its unabashed Nounishness.
What twisted visions will be added to this initial concept? What wall will become the canvas for this bizarre fusion of spiritual contemplation and digital identity? The answers remain shrouded in the mists of artistic process, but one thing is certain – the strange journey is well underway, and the Buddha's metamorphosis into a Nounish deity has begun.
The Psychedelic Enlightenment Complete
April 3rd brought the final bizarre manifestation of Jotchi's twisted vision – the completed Nounish Trippy Mural in all its hallucinatory glory. Standing triumphantly beside his creation, Noggles adorning his face like some deranged cult symbol, the artist proclaimed victory: "Here's the Finished Product! ✨ I'm Finished with my Nounish Trippy Mural👾👽."
The final form of this chemical fever dream reveals a majestic yellow Buddha figure draped in flowing blue robes, floating in a vortex of red-white psychedelic clouds. The figure's transformation into a full Nounish deity is complete, with the signature red square Noggles dominating its serene face. Most disturbing of all, a tiny disciple – also corrupted by the square-eyed glasses – peers out from the Buddha's elongated earlobe, suggesting some kind of digital parasite or spiritual offspring born of this unholy fusion.
Jotchi, clearly under the spell of his own creation, confessed a disturbing attachment to the piece: "I had so much fun doing it and i love how the colors turned out. This is one of my favorite projects so far. 🔥🔥" The artist's enthusiasm belies the strange reality – a traditional spiritual icon has been completely consumed by digital iconography, transmuted into a psychedelic messenger bridging ancient wisdom and pixel-based modern tribal identifiers.
The mural now stands as a completed monument to this bizarre collision of worlds – a permanent hallucination fixed on a wall, ready to bend the perceptions of any unsuspecting passersby who happen to gaze upon its vibrant, mind-altering surface. The Nounish Buddha has arrived, and the fabric of reality may never be the same.