For
Myrrh, art has been a thought-tool to explore philosophical ideas.
Visual mathematics has provided metaphors.
Myrrh was inspired by the passion that scientists, artists and mystics all feel pursuing knowledge of the unknown.
Some scientists probe the most distant galaxies. Others zero in on the smallest, most fugitive subatomic particle. Artists playfully put their own spin on what they find in the world. Mystics occasionally experience feelings of oneness with all that is.
Under it all there seems to be an underlying order. Myrrh first explored this idea in 1975. (See two other versions).
In 1999, E.O. Wilson, famous for his work with ants, published Consilience. The word "consilience" means "all knowledge is one." The book demonstrates how this is so.
A Vast Consilience is a 4 foot square painting on Plexiglas, lit from behind, 2004.
In this way we find people and whole cultures with divergent descriptions of Divinity.
left: "God"; center, "Neti-Neti (Hindu for "neither this nor that"); right, "Tao."
Some theologians, Christian and Jewish, have suggested that God is both a noun and a verb.
These are two 30 X 30 inch batiks; in the center, a painted moire pattern painted on 2 layers of plastic, 1979. A moire (mwah-ray') pattern is created when two patterns are superimposed to make a third pattern. In this case, radiating lines in front of a field of dots makes a four-lobed pattern.
"It was a profound experience that let me understand why I was here on Earth. It made me more willing to give of myself, more compassionate. This led to new experiences, new art."
Epistomology: what can we know in the material world?