How Does the Universe Speak?
Day #4 Hilma af Klint and The Imaginary Possible
When Hilma’s af Klint’s life work was finally re-discovered and began to be shown in museums, it became clear that she was doing abstract art ten years before Kandinsky and Mondrian, who art history books claim as abstract art’s originators.
Although many of the images in her best known works are not representational, it felt to me that her painting were full of symbols and codes code — containing and overflowing with meanings that I could feel and sense. It seemed I was looking at visual language with multiple meanings embedded in shapes and colors and symbols.
I began to think about sacred geometry on one hand, and magical symbols from hermetic traditions and astrology, some of which I recognized in her paintings.
I began to wonder if the shape of a flowerr and it’s colors contained messages from the universe. I also began to wonder if the divine is always speaking to us in what surrounds us,
in what gets our attention.
Imagine if everything in our lives was part of an ongoing dream. Whatever catches your attention, a color, lyrics toa song, a bit of overhead conversation, — all of it contains a message for you?
What if the Divine is speaking to you right now, in every image in front of you,in ever breeze on your face,in every shape and color and word that surrounds you.
How would you begin to understand what it is telling you?
This is what I was thinking when I drew Flower of Life.
