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Paper Portals III: Earthworm Root Portal, 2021
From the Paper Portal series:
EARTHWORM ROOT PORTAL. 2021.
1/100 signed and editioned on Giclee print on Hahnemule German Etching paper. . 12 X 17 inch
inspired by the hermetic mystic, Hermes Trismegistus:
“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul...”
The paper portal series dramatise the premise of the Axis Mundi and Anima Mundi. The ovals representing the sacred geometry of the Vesica Pisces, a conduit between the celestial and the terrestrial, they activate mythical journeys into different mystic traditions and cosmologies.
These detailed drawings were meditatively made with a 0.05 ink pen during Covid19. They represent initiatory journeys through fragmented, disembodied, altered states via stargates or portal points and they intend the viewer to see or feel a different way through in a time of stasis and entropy.
this drawing is a reworking of the manuscript illumination “Alchemical Tree by Spanish theologian and mystic Raymond Lull (1235- 1315) it functions as an axis mundi connecting the cosmos to the earth via the humble earth worm serpents. Lull was an alchemist who reputedly had attained the philosphers stone
From the Paper Portal series:
EARTHWORM ROOT PORTAL. 2021.
1/100 signed and editioned on Giclee print on Hahnemule German Etching paper. . 12 X 17 inch
inspired by the hermetic mystic, Hermes Trismegistus:
“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul...”
The paper portal series dramatise the premise of the Axis Mundi and Anima Mundi. The ovals representing the sacred geometry of the Vesica Pisces, a conduit between the celestial and the terrestrial, they activate mythical journeys into different mystic traditions and cosmologies.
These detailed drawings were meditatively made with a 0.05 ink pen during Covid19. They represent initiatory journeys through fragmented, disembodied, altered states via stargates or portal points and they intend the viewer to see or feel a different way through in a time of stasis and entropy.
this drawing is a reworking of the manuscript illumination “Alchemical Tree by Spanish theologian and mystic Raymond Lull (1235- 1315) it functions as an axis mundi connecting the cosmos to the earth via the humble earth worm serpents. Lull was an alchemist who reputedly had attained the philosphers stone