Unlocking Sacred Geometry

Art as processing the unconscious

Have you ever sat by a river on a rainy day and watched the circles emanate from a single drop of rain? Have you noticed an imperfect pentagon on a blueberry or in the core of an apple, or looked at a snowflake close up and wondered why the molecules join to each other in a hexagon? These are the things that led me on a spiralling journey, as a pilgrim, marvelling at all the magnificent complexities in life one can’t even hope to explain. In an attempt to make sense of these patterns, shapes and numbers, I began to draw.

Art became my daily practice, my meditation, my spiritual discipline. And it seemed that my art always focused on geometric patterns. I found comfort in drawing lines and circles—the repetitive motion and symmetry put me in a surfaced. Digging deeper, I found significance and comfort in the writings of psychoanalyst Carl Jung and philosopher Alan Watts, the artwork of MC Escher, and the wisdom in Taoism, Buddhism and Hinduism. Jung’s teachings in particular showed me that the psyche has the potential to reorganise, self-heal and manifest itself through circular figures.