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This is Starman
This image is available on a t-shirt at the Emporium (shop) at Kaleidoscope.com. The original is available as a print from next week.

albedo

This is my most recent painting, its oil on canvas, 24" x 24".

As often in life it is the woman who comes to the aid and inspiration of her man. The long lance of consciousness is not very visible on this photo but it will be better by the time it gets to Oakappleart next week. (see link at the top of the page)

In obscure alchemical language; the Dragon, impregnated by the lance of the Soror, gives up the White Earth.

Axiom of Maria

My interest stemmed from the fact that, unlike words, you couldn't really made shapes do what you wanted. I knew nothing of projection or archetypes but knew that what I drew could be shown to anyone, anywhere in the world and it would transcend language.

So, my story of the Axiom starts without any conceptual references to previous work, simply as observations and meditations. As I am not a word-smith so there will probably be no great revelations with this post, only questions.

We start with The Point, 1.
The point has no area, only position.
This makes it totally un-drawable, we can only signify it (with a sharp pencil), the nearer we get to it conceptually, the nearer we get to Infinity.
It is pure concept.
A point and it's periphery are intimately related, the one is the Potential of the other.
As "The two are secretly one" so the One is secretly two.

That wholeness is signified by the 1, that Oneness is the same as One did not and still does not ring true.

Later, when I read the words " Tao gave birth to One", (at about the same time that I read that Jung said that Consciousness is born of Unconsciousness,) it reconfirmed the feeling that I had that zero had more in common with wholeness than 1 and that a quantum leap was needed for 1 to arise from zero, or for consciousness to arise from unconsciousness.
One implies Not-One, as point implies periphery.
One has an inner tendency to split.

One becomes two because it is already in its nature.

Two is the Line
Two is Time and causality
and the "start of all delusion" according to an eastern philosopher.

The problem with Opposites is that they don't exist. They are conceptual extremes which have more in common with each other than they do with anything else. They are mutually dependent. They have a tendency to delete each other, leaving only the Third, the between, the process.

So Two becomes Three because the two would extinguish each other ( or; don't 'exist').


The Third is the first manifestly 2-D shape. The recognizable. As process, as Mercury it carries the opposites, the two snakes. It keeps them apart.




I can offer the following visual aid regarding The Three and the Four, (for me the jury is still out on whether the Fourth comes out of the Three or the Third. We can talk of this later).



This is an interesting optical illusion, the mind/eye tends to turn the three into four



Is this the three becoming four or the third becoming four?

Well, I haven't quite finished with my story;

In three dimensions the triangle becomes a 4-sided figure
3 (third or triad) becomes 4
In three dimensions the square becomes a 6-sided figure
4 becomes 6

Geometrically 3 has a latency of 4
4 is a latent 6

An interesting aspect of the four, the cross, is often accentuated with the circle





This brings us back to the point, 1, another definition of which is where two or more lines cross.

The Tao Teh Ching says (verse 42):
"Tao gave birth to One
One gave birth to Two
Two gave birth to Three
Three gave birth to all the myriad things (in some translations "10,000 things")
All the myriad things carry yin on their backs
and hold yang in there embrace"

Thus the fourth = 10,000 things


and the two become one

While this obviously indicates a return to unity
it is possible that this read at one time
"thus four becomes three
three becomes two
and two becomes one"
reinforcing the rotational nature of this process. This is pure speculation on my part.


So, the axiom,
for me the axiom is a preconscious statement out of the collective unconscious about the nature of matter.
What is the difference between energy and matter?

As 1, 2, and 3 have a tendency to split ( salt, mercury and sulphur have dual natures), does only the third split rather than the triad splitting simultaneously?

How does it split?

Answers on a postcard........

alchemy and stuff

This is Melusina, 12" x 39", oil on canvas.




This is Saint Onuphrius, 12" x 39", oil on canvas




This is Night Sea-crossing, 24" x 36", oil on canvas




The Axiom of Maria, 16" x 16", oil on board




Opus, 24" x 24", oil on canvas




Seasonal Alchemy, this is a design for T-shirts




Syzygy, 16" x 12", oil on canvas



This is my first ever blog and, hopefully, they will get better as i become more proficient.

Prints will be available next week at http://www.oakappleart.com/artists/scott_hills-johnes/scott-hj-main.html where you can see much better quality images of these paintings, plus more as I publish them.

I hope to start selling T-shirts from www.Kaleidoscope.com next week.

Thanks