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Sacred Geometry Jewelry and healing tools by Gretchen McPherson
Description
"Time is like a necklace of square beads of tangible objects, or moments or events, and to be absorbed by this succession of limited frames is maya or illusion, whereas only the inner thread of the necklace, the unimaginable continuum, is reality."
"I had stumbled onto a dance, a sacred ritual, a divine secret: there are invisible patterns throughout all of nature and these patterns are imprinted within each speices. The migration patterns of whales, the hibernation of bears, the mating dance of birds are all woven into the web of creation. So too is the longing within the human heart to love and nurture, to create, and to discover the mystery we live within and that lives within us."
Art is a vehicle to express the spiritual and believe it or not, that is how mathematics started out as well, the mystery of how the One becomes Two, and so on. Although I didn’t realize it then, my sixth grade math teacher opened my mind to this connection. He had us draw a figure that looks like a web around a cross. There was something so satisfying about drawing this image that I did dozens of them, in all different combinations of color and pattern. They decorated his classroom for years. In art school I experimented with sculptural work that was 4-dimensional, where some kind of temporal process was crucial to the work’s meaning. I have been obsessed with the spiral for years and that led into work with labyrinths and mazes. I make art as a way to gain deeper understanding by physically working through ideas.
