From the Paper Portal series:

EARTHWORM ROOT PORTAL. 2021.

1/100 signed and editioned on Giclee print on Hahnemule German Etching paper. . 12 X 17 inch

inspired by the hermetic mystic, Hermes Trismegistus:

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul...”

The paper portal series dramatise the premise of the Axis Mundi and Anima Mundi. The ovals representing the sacred geometry of the Vesica Pisces, a conduit between the celestial and the terrestrial, they activate mythical journeys into different mystic traditions and cosmologies.

These detailed drawings were meditatively made with a 0.05 ink pen during Covid19. They represent initiatory journeys through fragmented, disembodied, altered states via stargates or portal points and they intend the viewer to see or feel a different way through in a time of stasis and entropy.

this drawing is a reworking of the manuscript illumination “Alchemical Tree by Spanish theologian and mystic Raymond Lull (1235- 1315) it functions as an axis mundi connecting the cosmos to the earth via the humble earth worm serpents. Lull was an alchemist who reputedly had attained the philosphers stone