Consciousness Debut Series
Consciousness Evolution
Title: Consciousness Evolution
original 9"x12" felt ink pen
on 60lb 98GSM acid free paper
May | 2020
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Consciousness Evolution plays with the popular Eastern pattern of the mandala form which is personified into a somewhat exotic bird's body with feathers like petals symbolizing enlightenment falling on what looks like a celtic background. I believe the influences from the Middle and Far East reaching the far western edges of the world are not new. Indeed more and more evidence suggests the people inhabiting the most western islands, like Ireland were definitely influenced both lingusitically and culturally by the Middle and Far East in ancient times. For example, we know that around 1700 BC Egyptians travelled to and settled in Ireland and indeed there is evidence that two Egyptian princesses Scotia and Scota were among them for which Scotland was later named.
I see the spiral as an inherently celtic symbol and one I grew up around and understood as sacred, living just a stone's throw from the ancient burial site Newgrange which has a large boulder in front of the tomb where three interweaving spirals are carved by people over 5,200 years ago. While the spiral is undoubtedly a common pattern seen in tribal art all over the world, I choose to play with its significance around the concept of awakening consciousness in the mandala pattern of a coiled spiral ready to uncoil into the form of a bird. There is a larger eye symbolizing the universe looking on. The steady gaze in the eye of the bird is to signal to the viewer it's ready at any moment to spread open wings and fly freely strengthened in the knowledge and wisdom its attained in its uncoiling (awakening) from its cocooned state.
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