THE WHEEL February 8, 2011
Ink and Colored Pencil on three pieces of Posterboard 28”x66”
At the center is the formation of life, with sperm clustered around an egg, with DNA double-helixes moving outward to create a ring of awareness. The molecular ring surrounds, with individual elements joining into more complex compounds over the periodic table, eventually forming a ring of carbon, which forms into a ring of humanity, which forms into a ring of the earth, with fluid oceans and a fluid, seemingly infinite sky. The actually infinite cosmos continue out from this, with the planets of our solar system orbiting the Sun on the left, and the phases of the Moon on the right. Outside this, various gears, gods, and galaxies apply their influence. ROTA!
“Like a wheel in perfect balance turning, I felt my will and my desire impelled by the Love that moves the Sun and the other Stars.” Dante’s Paradiso, last lines. (trans. Musa, 1984.)
At the center is the formation of life, with sperm clustered around an egg, with DNA double-helixes moving outward to create a ring of awareness. The molecular ring surrounds, with individual elements joining into more complex compounds over the periodic table, eventually forming a ring of carbon, which forms into a ring of humanity, which forms into a ring of the earth, with fluid oceans and a fluid, seemingly infinite sky. The actually infinite cosmos continue out from this, with the planets of our solar system orbiting the Sun on the left, and the phases of the Moon on the right. Outside this, various gears, gods, and galaxies apply their influence. ROTA!
“Like a wheel in perfect balance turning, I felt my will and my desire impelled by the Love that moves the Sun and the other Stars.” Dante’s Paradiso, last lines. (trans. Musa, 1984.)
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