For more than three decades, Rayastre has worked at the edges of avant-garde music and experimental art. In 2022, this longstanding exploration underwent a radical transformation into a visual practice after a profound personal enlightenment experience. The strange is no longer obscured by darkness; it is now enveloped in a beautiful light…

His practice is rooted in a hermetic philosophy, in which the free creative process unfolds within a sealed vessel. The artist allows the universe to speak through him, bypassing him entirely and letting his hand become the hand of God. 

Rayastre oscillates between the wonderful and the strange, engaging with the eternal theme of transformation

The strange in a beautiful light, leading to Enlightened Surrealism

“I’m the jester in the marginalia of the main text…”