family matters..❤️!!! @toucanocean.bsky.social and @brandonlocher.bsky.social

A major thank you to @taylordeupree.bsky.social for mastering ‘Rahu / Ketu’, the debut full length release under my own name. 👤🪐🎶 Release details are still pending ... but it will be released for free, not sale.

Within a precise 264 day window, from 08/18/25 until 05/09/26, I wrote and recorded ‘Rahu / Ketu’, the debut full length release under my own name. 👤🪐🎶 Additional release details are pending. Until then, here is the album cover. Rahu / Ketu, Ink-Graphite and Colored Pencils on Paper, 9” x 9”, 2026

Nebel lang releases an Ongoing Solo recording, feel free to stream/download here: assemblagemanifesto.bandcamp.com

To read more about this drawing and to view the full work in high-resolution, feel free to visit: brandonlocher.substack.com 🖼️ Assemblage Material no. 19 (detail), Ink-Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, 18” x 24”, 2025

Scanning drawings in sections because they are too large for the 11.7” scanner. I enjoy how this looks before merged together. 📏📐 ✍🏻 Assemblage Material no. 8, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, 11” x 14”, 2023

Assemblage Material no. 11, Ink-Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, 11" x 14", 2023

✍🏻 Variations in Symmetry, Ink on Paper, 32” x 32”, 2010 ✨ “There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.” — John Cage

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." - Samuel Beckett 🖼️ White Painting (1951) by Robert Rauschenberg

“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.” — Clarice Lispector

Work in progress … Colored pencil, graphite and ink on paper.

Mazes to the Motherlode LXXII, 2022 is included in the 2025 benefit auction for Center for Book Arts. To view the auction items, feel free to visit: centerforbookarts.org/2025-benefit

"A journal, a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy." — Henry David Thoreau

"The world is filled, and filled with the Absolute; to see this is to be made free." — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

From point to infinity, perfect silence to infinite dynamism, everything in between and everything simultaneously.

Last evening I returned home from a Transcendental Meditation retreat that lasted for 6 nights and 5 days. Here are a handful of books from the Vedic library. This experience and knowledge I have gained from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Transcendental Meditation is infinite. Jai Guru Dev. 🪷 ♾️ 🤍

This morning I was rudely interrupted while experiencing this video with an ad convincing me to become a soldier for the US Army. Diametric opposites sadly exist in this material world: the totality of love side by side with the emptiness of absolute hate. PEACE IS POWER - SURRENDER TO PEACE! 🕊️

I will be offline for the following week at my new temporary residence. ✌🏻#worldpeaceway

I am beginning to feel unnatural sharing finished artwork and drawings on social media. With that said, this morning I randomly found several sheets of gold leaf and added them as the final embellishment to finish a new drawing. If you'd like to view, feel free to visit: www.brandon-locher.com

Going in … @eikoishibashi.bsky.social LP 🤍🖤

A beautiful mix. Highly recommended. 🪷📿

An early morning thought: I am becoming being. ✨

New "Ongoing Solos" by Jesse Peterson, Sissi Makropoulou, and Erin Rodgers with 13 additional contributions forthcoming in the order submitted ... listen here! 🔈🔉🔊 assemblagemanifesto.bandcamp.com/album/ongoin...

Since I’m using ink and colored pencil on paper, all marks remain unalterable. Using only this additive process, the drawings are from moment to moment an instantaneous balancing act until the total vision appears complete. Read more here ... 📝

I wrote about the allure of works in progress and how once a drawing is completed it forever remains, continuing in time and space unmoving and unchanged. ♾️ 🪨 Feel free to read more at: brandonlocher.substack.com 📝

Various angles and views of hand-drawn Assemblage Material no. 3, Ink and Colored Pencil on Paper, 11” x 11” (2023) 📐✍🏻

Mazes to the Motherlode LXXXII, Ink and Graphite on Paper, 19" x 24", 2021

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

This morning I had all of my wisdom teeth removed after having an infection for roughly 21+ days. All is well. A big shoutout and thanks to Dr. Delrosario and his lovely team of assistants in Johnstown, PA. I'm feeling endless love and gratitude for my amazing & supportive family: Mom, Dad, and Sis!

Mazes to the Motherlode LXXVII (I-IV), Ink and Color-aid on Paper, 18.5” x 18.5”, 2021

I realized my LP as Stage Hands was released 10 years ago on 02/10/2015. Feel free to listen here: brandonlocher.bandcamp.com/album/stage-...

I realized my LP as Stage Hands was released 10 years ago on 02/10/2015. Feel free to listen here: brandonlocher.bandcamp.com/album/stage-...

Assemblage Material no. 3, Ink and Colored Pencil on Paper, 11" x 11", 2023

A Suspension in the Sequence • Work in Progress, Ink and Colored Pencil on Paper, 02/08/2025

I'm honored to have my sound-work 'Conversations' included in dundee radio club's inaugural broadcast that begins at 2pm (UK) on February 7th and runs through to the afternoon of February 9th. More info here: dundeeradio.club

Assemblage Material no. 8, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, 11" x 14", 2023

Assemblage Material no. 11, Ink-Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, 11" x 14", 2023

Bennington VT, Acrylic on Canvas, 22" x 22", 2010

Happy Birthday Kenneth Anger! Here is a Lucifer Rising tribute jacket that I made shortly after his passing.

I completed this drawing roughly 10 years ago: Mazes to the Motherlode XL, Ink on Paper, 20" x 20", 2015

UbuWeb is a national treasure and in my opinion one of the most vital websites of all time, plus a very timely message and update! Feel free to listen to my project 'Conversations', here on UbuWeb: ubu.com/sound/locher...

Assemblage Material no. 12, Ink and Colored Pencil on Paper, 11" x 11", 2024

I received this note from Susan yesterday, today she unexpectedly passed away. So sad. Life is incredibly precious ... "Hi Brandon, My time is limited, but I'm interested. Let's stay in touch by email." 💔 RIP Susan Alcorn 💔 Sending love to all family and friends. Such a loss.

Would anyone have interest in starting a black metal band with me? This will be our band name & logo, it will also serve as our S/T debut cassette cover. Let me know! 🖤👊🏻

Self-Portrait (for Claude Mellan), Ink on Paper, 11" x 11", 2022 🌀 Inspired after seeing Claude Mellan's single spiraling line from his 1649 work 'Veronica's Veil'.

Facing East ❄️☀️

My sister @olivialocher.bsky.social wrote a beautiful post about her Transcendental Meditation practice and a few words of encouragement from David Lynch. Feel free to read here ... 🌱🌸

A drawing I made 13 years ago: Mazes to the Motherlode XIII, Ink on Paper, 19" x 24", 2012