The Faces of Gaia

The Faces of Gaia

2. The Faces of Gaia

Several of my paintings incorporate Celtic knots, sometimes called endless patterns that are also found in ancient Syrian and Coptic manuscripts. No place on these intertwined webs is outside the knot and one part flows into another. Thus it becomes an image, for me, of our seen and unseen belonging to our home, the earth and the cosmos. The physicist David Bohm described the universe as an undivided wholeness in flowing movement, a single symphony of expressions. Rather than having a universe filled with things, cosmologist Brian Swimme explains in The Universe Is a Green Dragon, we are enveloped by a universe that is a single, energetic event, a whole, a unified, multiform and glorious outpouring of being.
The knots in my paintings do not remain uniform. So, like the diversification of the earth since its beginning 4.6 billion years ago, the interconnected unity of the knot is itself diversified to include the tortoise, the owl, the fox, the galaxies, my grandson and all the other creatures. All parts belong fully to the whole knot.

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