Cosmogenesis
"Darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the waters, into the mother-deep. The ray shoots through the virgin-egg; the ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal germ, which condenses into the world egg."
Madam Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: Cosmogenesis, 1888
My drawing practice seeks ways to represent the relativistic or inter-connected nature of the universe. The Cosmogenesis series examines ideas of chaos and replication, the micro and macro-cosmic. Through the use of substances that do not mix, such as oil and water with additional pigments, marks are made without my control. These marks create symbols dependant upon the action of irresistible forces, the laws that are present throughout physical reality. This demonstrates that a process that is apparently producing random results is in fact pre-determined.
     Spirit Song series, 2009 | Spirit Song Over the WatersTHE soul of man Resembleth water: From heaven it cometh, To heaven it soareth. And then again To earth descendeth, Changing ever. Down from the lofty Rocky wall Streams the bright flood, Then spreadeth gently In cloudy billows O'er the smooth rock, And welcomed kindly, Veiling, on roams it, Soft murmuring, Tow'rd the abyss. Cliffs projecting Oppose its progress,-- Angrily foams it Down to the bottom, Step by step. Now, in flat channel, Through the meadowland steals it, And in the polish'd lake Each constellation Joyously peepeth. Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1789 |
Early experiments
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