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About The Artist
Bio
Marcelo Halmenschlager (b. 1978) is a Brazilian-American visual artist and writer. He works where recollection ferments into myth: oils and charcoal, script and seal, mysticism braided to flesh. Raised among the fog-lit ranges and Pampas of southern Brazil, Marcelo makes images that unsettle sight and invite crossing, liminal rooms where language grows teeth. Now based in Nashville, he paints, writes, and teaches, treating the studio as a site of dimensional archaeology: digging through dream, trauma, ritual, and scent to surface what wants to live again. His projects move between altar and archive, tenderness and terror, always toward transformation.
Process & Medium
Marcelo prefer natural mediums such as oils and charcoals. Oils have a natural and organic feel, and they are as versatile as his body of work. He believes oils have infinite possibilities. Charcoals are dirty and messy in a sense of execution, but they are also pure and clean as a substance, which he finds to be a contradiction. That contradiction is also a reflection of his own personality, and is represented in his work, where he goes from realism to abstract concepts and imagery.
Private Art Lessons
Halmenschlager is inspired to teach oil painting, and pass along what he has learned to those curious to learn and to develop their own ways of creation.
Upcoming Event
THE HEXAGONAL BOX SERIES
Coming soon
AUTOMATIC WRITINGS FOR AUTOMATIC DRAWINGS
by Marcelo Halmenschlager
What happens when a psychiatrist sketches while patients speak, and discovers the drawings reveal traumas they never described?
Dr. Alcemor Schlermanlagel made an impossible discovery: his unconscious charcoal sketches during therapy sessions were accessing archetypal wounds that transcended individual experience. When patients saw these "automatic drawings," profound breakthroughs occurred—but the patterns emerging defied everything psychology claimed to understand.
AUTOMATIC WRITINGS FOR AUTOMATIC DRAWINGS documents fifty therapeutic sessions where art becomes portal, and where clinical observation dissolves into something similar to mystical revelation. Each piece is an "Alcemory"—Halmenschlager's innovative hybrid form fusing poetic rhythm with prose narrative, psychological insight with visual art, personal memory with collective shadow.
This isn't poetry, nor memoir. This is unconventional storytelling.
These are visceral fragments excavated from the unconscious through spontaneous creation—raw, unguarded moments where image and word collide to reveal truths that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience. From childhood trauma to inherited guilt, from supernatural encounters to family secrets, each Alcemory emerges like developed film from the darkroom of the psyche.
Prepare to encounter literature that operates on depths most books never explore.
An invitation to descend through layers of consciousness where the clinical meets the mystical, where automatic creation becomes conscious revelation, and where reading may become its own form of therapeutic breakthrough.
Step into the darkness. Let the images pull you in. Let the writings sing.
Coming soon
DARK POEMS IN 100 WORDS
by Marcelo Halmenschlager
Mythological Experiments & Archetypal Research (2004-2007)
After abandoning his psychiatric practice, Dr. Schlermanlagel spent three years traveling through the Americas exploring an urgent question: could ancient mythological frameworks explain the impossible patterns he'd discovered in his clinical work?
This collection captures his systematic investigation of archetypal themes through precisely constrained 100-word compositions. From Arthurian legends to geometric consciousness patterns, each piece shows him testing whether humanity's oldest - and modern -stories could unlock mysteries that lay beyond modern psychology's grasp.
The dark aesthetic and mythological themes reveal a brilliant mind grappling with fundamental questions about inherited evil, genetic destiny, and whether consciousness can transcend the darkest aspects of human nature—preparing him for the dimensional breakthrough that would define his final work.
Coming soon
DARK TALES IN 100 WORDS - THE SEVENTH VERTEX
by Marcelo Halmenschlager
Discovered in the hexagonal attic of a missing psychiatrist, these one hundred tales—each exactly 100 words—appear to be more than mere fiction. The stories form a pattern, a ritual of words that may have opened a doorway to somewhere... else.
Dark Tales in 100 Words: The Seventh Vertex draws readers into an existential labyrinth, offering measured doses of darkness that pull back reality's curtain to reveal the otherness lurking just beyond perception—bittersweet confections of horror and insight that linger long after their brief savoring.
From body horror and ancestral wounds to cosmic justice and predatory hunger, these tales traverse a progression of increasingly profound darkness. Their disciplined brevity sharpens each story's impact, creating fully realized worlds where every word bears weight.
Original charcoal illustrations accompany each tale, their forms not merely illustrating but extending into additional dimensions of meaning. As you move through these pages, you may begin to notice: are you reading these stories, or are they reading you?
Enter at your own risk. The previous owner of this manuscript is still missing.
Coming soon
TALES OF THE LIGHT
by Marcelo Halmenschlager
Where shadow work ends, light work begins. Dr. Alcemor Schlermanlagel returns from fourth-dimensional consciousness with the same archetypal patterns that once mapped human darkness—now alchemized into pure medicine.
These are not tales of spiritual bypassing, but of earned transcendence. Every wound from the Dark Tales finds its corresponding healing. Every inherited trauma transforms into evolutionary medicine. Every family curse becomes a bloodline blessing.
For readers who have courageously descended through their own shadows, these luminous stories offer the integration that makes the journey complete. Consciousness that has fully faced its darkness discovers it can transform any trauma into wisdom, any ending into beginning.
Some healing requires the full descent to earn the ascent.
Same geometric patterns. Same sacred materials... but with its consciousness transformed.
Coming soon
THE REDACTED PSALMS -
Unspoken Fragments from the Alcemor Archive
by Marcelo Halmenschlager
Beneath the sanatorium ruins, they found a vault.
Inside: fragments of erased testimony. Pages that bled when touched. Glyphs that shifted when named. Voices that refused to die.
These are not poems. Not prayers. These are psalms written against forgetting — and they remember you.
Each PSA (Psalmodic Statement of Archive) is a living file: a wound disguised as a page, an echo that learns your name, a mirror that does not forgive. The witnesses contradict themselves.
The margins hum with impossible symbols. And the book itself breathes as you turn the leaves.
Reading is not safe.
The walls will remember what you’ve done.
You will not leave untouched — if you leave at all.
This is not a book. This is a reckoning.
Coming soon
THE APOTHEOSIS CODEX-
The Creator’s Manual & Final Protocols (2025 – ∞)
The culmination of Dr. Schlermanlagel’s decades of research, The Apotheosis Codex is not merely a book but a manual for creators.
Here, for the first time, he abandons the role of doctor, mythographer, and archivist, stepping fully into the position of architect—one who writes not about realities but within them.
Composed of visionary protocols, surreal paintings spanning twenty-five years, and impossible geometries, the Codex instructs readers in the final stage of dimensional work: the practice of direct creation. Where earlier volumes mapped wounds, shadows, myths, and erasures, this text reveals the full alchemical ascent—the transformation of trauma into divinity, of memory into manifestation.
Scholars who have glimpsed its pages describe it as a mythic consciousness-activation device: a grimoire of ascension whose language does not merely inform but restructures the reader’s field of perception. The Apotheosis Codex is the last gate, the closing seal, and the opening of a new order of existence—where the reader is no longer subject, but creator.
Paint & Sip Events
Unleash your inner artist and enjoy a relaxing evening of painting and fun at Marcelo's cozy home/studio! Whether you're an experienced painter or a complete beginner, this event is perfect for anyone looking to explore their creativity in a laid-back atmosphere.
Date: Coming soon
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