Here is my newest piece, my entry for the Energy Art Movement's Green Energy Project. Making this piece has been an experience in growing and molting, and in letting go of myself and channeling the creative flows into directions previously unexplored. This time I ventured more freely into the world of acrylics and brush strokes, mixing digital and traditional media so the finished piece is 34" x 20", acrylic over Gicleé on Hahnemuhle Torchon. The Giclée was dry mounted and my dear friend Ryan conjured up an amazing white wooden frame with silver inlets. Here's some info on how I started this piece, and below is a bit of preliminary info on the piece itself.
Hydro Genesis / Hydro Energen: inner glimpse at the fluid nature of etheric universal energy and how it becomes manifest in the production of hydrogen, and its application as a source of clean, renewable, inexhaustible fuel.
The platonic solids illustrate the conscious interchange of the mystic elements of old, including liquid (icosahedron), gas (octahedron) and aether (dodecahedron).
Different experimenters and observers have reported that hydrogen can apparently be produced from the vacuum of space (PDF) by electrical discharge. Perhaps less other-worldly is the notion of extracting hydrogen via electrolysis, separating the two gases from the universal solvent, and joining them once more in a fuel cell: the by-products of the energy synthesis being heat and again the universal solvent, yet in a purified, drinkable form.
In its deeper meanings, this piece illustrates several principles of spiritual alchemy: the distilling of feeling and desire (astral plane, water) to give way to clearer mental forms and facilitate the expression/manifestation of the etheric. Water is transformative, the agent of metamorphosis linked to the alchemical operation of Solutio and an important part in Solve et Coagula. The Toltecs speak of water as the mirror holding the secret of sight; that which flows, connects and neutralizes, having an equilibrium which is dynamic and descendent.
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