'about knowing'

"The senses lose their place as gateways of knowing to take their rightful place as stimuli to action." (Dewey in Reconstruction in Philosophy, pg 83)

Knowing is a multi-tiered faculty and this nascent state has been represented in various ways. The piece below represents a triangulated model of knowing. It includes: knowing through sensory experience, knowing by engaging and knowing by being consumed. It also narrates the process of knowledge integration: consumption, digestion and assimilation...

'three levels'

'the square as form'

All forms, whether considered static or dynamic, are in a continual state of change. When a form is manipulated, the physical shifts incurred establishes an open-ended narrative from which perpetual meanings can be extrapolated. The form, in Sufi philosophy, is representable by a square. This shape is a visual representation of the number 4, which corresponds on a macrocosmic level, to the four divisions of matter.

"many guises"

"five digits amulet"

"Only what is separated may be properly joined". Carl Jung
One can only begin to comprehend the underlying complexities and meaning of a piece, after engaging in a process of ongoing and multiple analyses and creative reconstruction .

‘’Geometry deals with pure form, and philosophical geometry re-enacts the unfolding of each form out of a preceding one. It is a way by which the essential creative mystery is rendered visible. The passage from creation to procreation, from the unmanifest, pure formal idea to the ‘here-below’, the world that spins out from that original divine stroke, can be mapped out by Geometry...” (Lawlor, 1982: 10)

"number 6 locket"

"elipse pinched twice "

"two squares inhaling"