Chloe Trujillo is an amazing woman who undertakes creative projects while gracefully living a life of mystical pursuits and globetrotting with her children and rockstar husband Robert Trujillo of Metallica. I wrote a Punk Globe feature on her in 2009 about her painting.

http://www.punkglobe.com/chloetrujillointerview409.html

I caught up with her recently over the phone and in an email interview and she told me about her latest projects.

PG - I hear that you are playing music and singing nowadays? What are the names of your current music projects and with whom are you collaborating?

CT - I was invited by Gail Zappa to record a Frank Zappa cover, I picked "The Torture never Stops" and it was released December 21st, 2010. I recently released two songs in collaboration with healers/artists, one called "Imago" co-written with Healer Carol'ann and another one called "Light" with words channeled by Tia Crystal, which is the introduction of a meditation CD. I have a Hang, an Indian Harmonium, some Dilruba and sagat in it. I am also working with Craig McFarland, bassist for M.I.R.V. We are about to finish the album and are still currently giving this project many many different names. I am also finally putting all the songs I've written for the past 2/3 years in order and am currently recording them. This is solo for now, but I might get some help. . .who knows? All my music can soon be heard (and purchased) via my website www.chloeinart.com, which is currently being updated!

PG - How was Burning Man this year?

CT - During that time, I was unpacking boxes, moving furniture and watching the kids at the same time for the week. . . We were moving back to LA. . . .I burned the man in my kitchen.

PG - What subjects are you painting lately?

CT - I just finished another surfboard, today actually, and started another bass guitar. I'm also working on this huge wall piece. I've had many many visions lately and subjects are diverse. They represent a metaphoric world of predictions, of dream-like states and energetic fields. I also started working on soul portraits. I should prepare soon for a show I am doing in Paris, with an old friend from artschool. I had a few of my works photographed, so I will soon sell prints and accessories with my work on it. The drummer from "the Dukes" asked me to paint his kit and I got a new bass to wood burn for Robert.

PG - Tell us about the connection between your painting and world events. Recently you felt there was a connection between one of your paintings and the recent tragedies in Japan from the tsunami and the earthquakes?

CT - I had goose bumps when I realized. . . . it is the second very clear prediction I have seen in a painting . . . Today, as I was driving back home right after my mom called from France, warning me about the radioactive radiations coming from Japan and asking me if I needed some iodine sent, I suddenly got a vision of a painting that I created in 2009, All Seeing Eye for Peace. This is it, the second very clear prediction: Japanese tsunami, nuclear radiation disaster, it's all in there: "Hokusai"style wave (Japanese) coming over, the peace and love signs (nuclear disarmament), piling of skulls (disaster) and many more symbolic meanings are to add (the redness of the All-Seeing eye-anger? Pollution? Japanese flag?) I'll leave it to your interpretation . . .

PG - How do you balance creating art, making music and being a mom? Does your husband babysit too?

CT - Ha ha, well I just had a show in NYC and for once Robert had to stay with the kids for a whole week! And he did a great job! Who knew? Maybe I should do this more often . . . No, it's never easy leaving the kids! You know I stopped "creating" when I had the kids. They were babies and I wanted to take care of them, but soon after I started feeling very depressed, waking up with knots in my stomach, so instead of ignoring the pain, I looked deep and understood that my job on this earth was also to share my creativity and visions with others. There you go, it's a lot of work to do it all, but so important and worth it! It's so easy to disappear, hide behind your children. I want to be there for them as much as possible and they are my priority no question, but it is also important to teach them that mommy needs her own time. I noticed that I am such a better mom when I do that. I am happier, everyone is happier!

PG - Tell us about recent exhibitions and do you have any upcoming gallery shows?

CT - I did a show in December in Venice curated by a woman named Alicia who created an artist group, which I am now part of. I also painted two surfboards for Billabong, one will be displayed in their new store at the Universal Citywalk, and as I painted the other one, I started channeling images and it is now a Andy Irons tribute art piece. I have some tattoo designs for a show called Burning Ink that is up in NYC. Wow, April was sooo crazy with shows. I just had four this month in all different parts of the US! Right now I have a couple of shows lined up for LA, but with a fellow artist, we are preparing a huge one for Europe. . . more info to come.

PG - What do you think of upcoming cosmic 2012 Mayan events that some people are predicting?

CT - We are all going through a shift, a planetary shift, but also a shift in consciousness. I don't believe in the end of the world, but in the end of the world as we know it today. Mother Nature has not been taken care of the way she deserved. We have thought of ourselves as separated entities, but we aren't. We are all energy, all connected, and we need to learn respect, Love and Light.

Check out Chloe's website for updates on her projects.

http://chloeinart.com/

http://www.facebook.com/ChloeTrujillo

You can read more about Rebecca G. Wilson's projects at

http://twitter.com/writerebecca

Art gallery photo of Chloe by Rebecca G. Wilson, Chloe and surfboard photo from Chloe's personal collection