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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.