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Visual ideas often find meaning & voice in language more abstract than words & stories. Often the simple division of space speaks importantly to the ways we parse our various realities: halves or thirds… evens or odds… then quarters & quintets… sixths & eighths… tenths & dozens. Beginning with oneness & twoness… thus we have threeness… Three-dimensional concepts immediately have familiar archetypal meanings attached, even before the math layers are added. Thus can one play with the underlying psychology of spatial relationships... But the visual language I have used most often as a formal study is the knot-work known as Celtic. In fact, I have found exactly the same knots in ancient Chinese & Mayan art as in the Irish, so they are to me a more primal form of human communication… I see it as binary language, weaving over & under… on or off the grid. I consider the flow & weaving of such decorative patterning to be almost "proto-language"… It certainly seems to be "music of, by, & for the spheres of our eyes"… |
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