A Future suspended between Air & air

A Future suspended between Air & air

38” x 38”

Monastery 22K gold-leaf, 12K white gold-leaf, oil paint on cotton canvas

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In Euclid’s elements the Octahedron is the geometric formation associated with the element of air. The octahedron is an 8 sided shape that looks like a diamond, or two pyramids sharing a base, pointing in opposite directions.

In this painting I used triakis octahedrons. In a triakis octahedron, each of the 8 sides get divided into 3, forming a mini pyramid shape on each face of the original geometry.

The use of capital-A Air and lower-case a air in the title is intended to cause a reflection on the distinction between physics and metaphysics. Capital-A Air is the eternal possibility of Air in the mind of the divine creator, while lower-case a air is the air that we are immersed in on a temporal physical level. The future is suspended in a field of potential that will be determined by the focus of our awareness. The gap between the perfect mode of Air and the flawed occupation in air is the field of potential in which the future remains suspended.

This painting was made for John Eustor’s sound healing studio, Sapphire, in Bradley Beach. John asked me to paint a portal. Grounding divine plasma energy in our 3d world.

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