The Tarot of Heaven and Earth

Strange Fruit Loops

"Seed, Tree, & Fruit"

Return from Fruit to Root from Seed 
Has need of air, rain, flame and earth.
Latter's birth as pome, its
Flesh decayed, consumed; laid
To abide in hallowed mound for
Incarnation's clarion.

"Iteration and Recursion"

"Book of Changes"

 

An hexagram from the Book of Changes consists of an inner trigram superposed by an outer trigram.  Each of the hypercubes comprising the sculpture represents all eight discrete trigrams.  Thus, the sculpture simultaneously depicts the 64 hexagrams.  The jewel at center represents the querent.

"Pieces of Eight"

"Heaven's Heart"

"Three Faces of the Cube"

Vesica Piscis features prominently on this representation of the Tree of Life superimposed on the Flower of Life depicted in cubic form.

"Jörmungandr" (working title)

One strand, formed into a loop, re-formed into three orthogonal loops, thus creating a sacred space or consciousness.

"Cosmogony"

"Therefore there is in the Changes the Great Primal Beginning. This generates the two primary forces. The two primary forces generate the four images. The four images generate the eight trigrams. The eight trigrams determine good fortune and misfortune. Good fortune and misfortune create the great field of action." (Commentary on I Ching, tr. Wilhelm and Baynes 1967:318-9)

"Quincunx"

"Quincunx"

how deep is your water?

how hot burns your flame?

how far range your heavens?

how curves your terrestrial frame?

how empty the void within, which contains?

Inspired by Tao-te Ching verse 54

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