The project is composed of mixed media animate-drawings, some on antique ledger paper.
They have been created in the time of Covid, a time that has facilitated a deep internal dive and a conscious navigation of the subtle.
I have begun to actively prepare for my own death.
The work attempts to find image to express the awareness of awareness; it is at once a download and an upload.

The Wisdom Engines are tools for “consciousness hacking”. The metaphysical and ontological ideas regarding the nature of being, existence and truth embedded in these drawings has the potential to disrupt and enliven the general field in which they are experienced.
They could serve to adjust and upgrade the viewer’s internal operating systems.
Due to their scale, spinal symbolism, and symmetry they encourage a somatic response.
The visual medicine in the work can be used to generate subtle awareness, cultivate wisdom, and wick fear.

The series includes three components: Wisdom Engines, Evolutes and Visual Mantras.

Wisdom Engines are vector maps of perception, boundlessness, and prana/life force.
The maps explore the elasticity of time and space, and the relationship between frequency and image. They are inspired by a practice of attuning to life and the natural world(s) and an inquiry into the way energy moves in the organism. My communication with (benevolent) ancestors is interpreted through an ideography that includes representation of Eastern European embroidery and plant medicine lines.
The work is concerned with the metaphorical and ephemeral horizon line that holds together and separates states of consciousness, the hypnagogic line crossed as one falls asleep, or even as one passes from life into death. It reflects an examination of the liminal space between states and my experience of the texture of threshold.
The series investigates the continual interaction between the dynamics of contraction and expansion and the intersection of the notion of the eternal and that of timelessness or the infinite.
t is a record of how Creation witnesses herself through the portals of my senses.

Visual Mantras investigate the way the I ‘see’ the kinetics of sound as it filters through my perception, and records theses soundshapes in form and colour. They are symbolic translations of certain mantras with which I work. The series is informed by a lived realization of how sound connects worlds and endeavours to describe the information and intelligence found in the traverse. There is an intuitive dimensional transposition of rhythm and pattern.
The prana of this work moves inwards and outwards as well as upwards.

Evolutes are drawings of invented allegorical contraptions/mechanical devices that combine angles, polarities, and repetition. They integrate representation of technologies like levers, pulleys, and pumps to symbolize the ways movement and breath can be used with precision to interrupt patterns, to strengthen electromagnetism, to vibrate the psyche and to stabilize energy.
To illuminate the mind.
In the differential geometry of curves, the evolute of a curve is the locus of all its centres of curvature. It is the shape made or point of convergence created when the centre of curvature of each point on a curve is drawn. In the context of this work, the title refers metaphorically to the continuum nature of consciousness.

The animate-drawings reflect a practice of observing my own mind and the consideration of prana, electromagnetism and emptiness. The work integrates a symbology of micro and macrocosmic orbiting with an interest in myth, ecology, and storytelling. It is informed by the study of mysticism and ancient sacred texts from the Yoga and Tantra traditions.
The drawings are inspired by alchemical and hermetic illustrations, Renaissance inventions, and old patent diagrams.

We are currently negotiating the energy of the end of one astrological age and the beginning of a new 2150 cycle. The prevailing crossroad experience as we collectively transition is one of constriction and contraction.
We are inside a symbolic birth chamber.
This contraction is evident in the pandemic, lockdowns, mandates and collapsing of economies and systems.
The potential for expansion, as a natural conversant of contraction, was palpable in 2020. In an unprecedented and suspended moment, one could feel empathy and unity with all the people on the planet, even the potential of a collective choice to transform the dominant paradigm. To move towards one with more evolved relationships and responsibilities to the Earth, to the ecosystems, water, soil, air, and human health.
Evidently, we weren’t quite ready to make the jump and our choice was/is shaped by fear and separation, and the desire to maintain the status quo, however flawed, as it was pre pandemic.

It is still possible to choose expansion.

This is an interesting and profound time to be an artist, indeed, to be a human.

This is the time to call in the future.

My personal response to the escalation of chaos and uncertainty in the world has been to generate and stabilize a calm and connected psyche. A belief, even, that any cultivation of energetic coherency could be helpful to all beings. This ongoing intention is realized through a regular meditation practice, and by spending much of my time in the wilderness.

It is metabolized in the making of the Wisdom Engine drawings.