{"id":420507,"date":"2026-10-06T19:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420507\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:34:38","slug":"meditation-practice-changes-work-and-life-of-st-pete-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420507\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation practice changes work and life of St. Pete artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 You might not know Chris Parks by name, but you know him by his work \u2014 thanks to murals in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the years of making art, it\u2019s really become a quest for so much more than what it started as,\u201d said Parks. \u201cI see life as a quest for joy, life as a quest for becoming the best versions of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artist, known as Palehorse, is celebrating 20 years of work in an upcoming retrospective and he\u2019s bringing his outdoor skills to the indoor walls of the Morean Art Center<\/a> in \u201cShapeshifter: New and Select Works by Palehorse.\u201d<\/p>\n

This inside mural depicts the Chinese beast Pixiu, representing wisdom and prosperity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy style of painting really it\u2019s a combination of a lot of things that I love\u2014the stories of ancient cultures,\u201d said Parks.<\/p>\n

He said he gained inspiration after traveling in Thailand.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in the spiritual teachings that I follow, they say that love is bliss in motion. So you learn how to experience joy in your own life and then share that joy with others,\u201d said Parks.<\/p>\n

The Florida native practices Kriya Yoga meditation from ancient India, drawing on Hindu roots.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so I practice meditation for concentration and for focus, and to learn how to quiet the mind, to open the heart,\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it has changed his art and his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 You might not know Chris Parks by name, but you know him by his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1595,19704,274,2813,104,115,4094,7149,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,7148,835],"class_list":["post-420507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-latest-arts-stories","tag-app-top-stories","tag-arts","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-virginia-johnson","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}