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Acrylic, bleeding tissue, varnish, and oil on foam core.

The concept of the visible world as an elaborated code, which conceals, yet may be used to reveal, the metaphysical causes behind it, is of great antiquity, arising from the experience of people before the age of settlements, who wandered the face of the earth and whose very existence depended on their ability to read the subtle signs that prefigure nature's moods and changes. They did not consider it unreasonable to find significance in the shapes of rocks or clouds or in the flight patterns of migrating birds, and they accepted the guidance through dreams and visions of oracular trees, stones and springs. . . .
-John Michell, Natural Likeness

Description

Acrylic, bleeding tissue, varnish, and oil on foam core.

The concept of the visible world as an elaborated code, which conceals, yet may be used to reveal, the metaphysical causes behind it, is of great antiquity, arising from the experience of people before the age of settlements, who wandered the face of the earth and whose very existence depended on their ability to read the subtle signs that prefigure nature's moods and changes. They did not consider it unreasonable to find significance in the shapes of rocks or clouds or in the flight patterns of migrating birds, and they accepted the guidance through dreams and visions of oracular trees, stones and springs. . . .
-John Michell, Natural Likeness