The Flower Of Life--What's so Sacred

Twelve Fifteen Twelve Flower,  duo-tone ink with pastel washes, copr 2012

Most of the people I know glaze over if I even bring it up.  So it's a cute pattern.  Big deal.  Yawn.  They don't understand that this is the essential geometric pattern for all matter, consciousness, light, time, space, all the religions--everything in the universe.  It is found all over the world, from ancient cultures in art and architecture.  It contains all five Platonic solids which are the basis for all  the elements in the periodic table.  It has had a profound effect upon history as secret societies guard its secrets to where any amount of suppression and violence is deemed alright.   The layout of Washington DC follows this pattern precisely.    And science is still discovering the relevance contained in this pattern.  Talk about aesthetics, I can think of nothing more beautiful.  This video is a cartoon that spells much of this out rather clearly.  Enjoy.   

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Geometrical Contemplations

Five Fourteen Twelve Flower, ink with pastel wash, copr 2012

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180 Degree Reversals

YHWH VI, 12 X 16, Ink With Pastel, print

YHWH VIII, 12 X 16, Ink With Pastel, print

YHWH V, 12 X 16, Ink With Pastel, print

If star charts are produced in reverse, and my old series here reminded me of star charts, I wondered what my work would look like in reverse.  Would they remind me of actual stars? What do you think?  Of course I wasn't thinking stars at the time, I was either smacking the drawing around or praying,  Possibly both.  Let's just call it a creative trance.

YHWH V, reversed

In terms of physics, Calabi–Yau manifolds are important in superstring theory. In the most conventional superstring models, ten conjectural dimensions in string theory are supposed to come as four of which we are aware, carrying some kind of fibration with fiber dimension six. Compactification on Calabi–Yau n-folds are important because they leave some of the original supersymmetry unbroken. More precisely, in the absence of fluxes, compactification on a Calabi–Yau 3-fold (real dimension 6) leaves one quarter of the original supersymmetry unbroken if the holonomy is the full SU(3).


Thank you Doc, for introducing me to the Calabi-Yau manifold.  What a precious description (Wikkipedia).  I wonder if I was channeling professor Yau back in 1979.  You're right--my goofy little drawings are stoundingly similar to the visual version of the Calabi-Yau manifold.   I have not a clue what any of the Poindexter stuff in the above description even means, but I am a superstring kind of guy.   Ultra cool comment, Sonya (Sonya Johnson).  

I've just found out that Brian Greene's book on superstring theory inspired a Nova special a few years back.  Here it is.  Sonya, this is just getting better and better.

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