The tree with gold leaves

Advanced mystics have described true reality as radiating infinite beauty, but hidden to ordinary perception. These drawings are a meditative practice based on this, as if the leaves of a tree would become gold, simply by watching and waiting until they did. I draw these images as a way of silently and patiently watching and waiting for a gold leaf to spontaneously appear.

Icons

The title 'Icons' is a reference to the classical portraits of Saints—unio-mystica—mystical experience, beyond ordinary experience and description. These drawings are '...like windows into a parallel world.'* via sustained awareness of non-form (meditation).

Other descriptions/parallels :
– Nature (invisible) doing something visible, like wind tracing the surface of water
– Essential processes : rarefaction, distillation, sublimation
– Attractor fields, (visible as the spontaneous unified movement of a flock of birds)
– Opulence Végétaux : The sensuality, grandeur, or luxuriousness of the plant kingdom
– Playful, organic, spontaneous things

* Fra Angelico

The tree with gold leaves

Advanced mystics have described true reality as radiating infinite beauty, but hidden to ordinary perception. These drawings are a meditative practice based on this, as if the leaves of a tree would become gold, simply by watching and waiting until they did. I draw these images as a way of silently and patiently watching and waiting for a gold leaf to spontaneously appear.

Icons

The title 'Icons' is a reference to the classical portraits of Saints—unio-mystica—mystical experience, beyond ordinary experience and description. These drawings are '...like windows into a parallel world.'* via sustained awareness of non-form (meditation).

Other descriptions/parallels :
– Nature (invisible) doing something visible, like wind tracing the surface of water
– Essential processes : rarefaction, distillation, sublimation
– Attractor fields, (visible as the spontaneous unified movement of a flock of birds)
– Opulence Végétaux : The sensuality, grandeur, or luxuriousness of the plant kingdom
– Playful, organic, spontaneous things

* Fra Angelico