Dancers (2022)
oil on canvas
24 x 30 cm
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did you hear? there was another sunrise this morning. the clouds are parting to let love in. birds still live in the trees and rabbits still live in the ground and God still loves you
This is a calligraphic filigree rose window mandala design for an upcoming book I'm working on. The single circle form is primary here, as in ancient cosmology this symbolized the One, the unknowable Divine source of all being, as well as becoming the form for the emergent Cosmos as in Plato's "Timaeus". The concentric rings of filigree hearken to this, adapting medieval illumination motifs for the planetary spheres, in this case centrally oriented to the Sun, which symbolizes the undying light of the Divine. This rose window begins the Gospel omnigraph, and for this I selected the famous verses from St. John's prologue, which tie together the eternal origin of all things with the Logos and the embodied entrance of that Logos into human history as the man Jesus Christ.