Visions of God - Power of Symmetry

 sublime symmetries, central infinity:

visions of heaven:

"order-creating gesture of mirror-symmetric composition...

directed by another kind of intelligence beyond the mind..."

Andrea Bátorfi 

Visions of God - Heavenly Ceilings

Ely Cathedral, England 

San Lorenzo, Turin, Italy 

Chapter House, York, England

New Synagogue, Szeged, Hungary

kaleidoscopic patterns, sublime symmetries, central infinity:

models of the universe

visions of heaven:

 European cathedral ceilings

David Stephenson

Visions of God - Kaleidoscopes

sublime symmetries, central infinity:

models of the universe

visions of heaven:

kaleidoscopes

Visions of God - Fractals

kaleidoscopic patterns, sublime symmetries, central infinity:

models of the universe

visions of heaven:

geometric fractals

Giovanni Rubaltelli

Visions of God - Mandalas

kaleidoscopic patterns, sublime symmetries, central infinity:

models of the universe

visions of heaven:

circular mandalas

evia mandala

Visions of God - Persian and Turkish Carpets

kaleidoscopic patterns, sublime symmetries, central infinity:

models of the universe

visions of heaven:

Eastern carpets

Visions of God - Ancient Calendars

Aztec calendar

Mexican calendar 

  Celtic calendar

Hebrew calendar

sublime symmetries, central infinity:

models of the universe
visions of heaven:


celestial calendars

Beauty

„The beauty which is inherent in the form of the world and is proven in geometry and expressed in all good art is the proof that the world points to something beyond itself... Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right to the soul... a way in which the divine reality behind the world invades our lives.”

Simone Weil

Kaleidoscope and the Model of the Universe

E8, Garetti Lisi's New View of the Universe

Garetti Lisi's model of the universe places all known particles and the four fundamental forces of nature (electromagnetic, the strong force, the weak force and gravity) onto an exceptionally complex eight-dimensional 248-point mathematical model known as E8 that was formulated in the late 19th century.

Since E8 is perhaps the most beautiful structure in mathematics, it is very satisfying that nature appears to have chosen this geometry. Elegant simplicity and complexity combined with the inherit reflective qualities of our world; natural forms repeat themselves over and over, the fundamental structure of the universe is incredibly beautiful.

Patterns as seen through a kaleidoscope tube

The beauty of the colourful mirrored systems is the base of the geometric imagery of the kaleidoscope - a finite box containing an infinite vision that creates the sensation of being part of infinity. You feel like the whole universe is a hall of mirrors: reflections reflecting reflections.

Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession 2004

In today's art there is a progressive effort to move towards defocusing, in which no single element of the composition is given more importance than any others: there is a desire to break down the hierarchy of the elements.

Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese contemporary artist has an obsession for infinity. She perceives the world as an array of infinitely repeating patterns, which she has termed infinity nets. Her work is the expression of these visions. You are drawn into Kusama’s world like the centerpiece of an echoing, infinite landscape and experience the dissolving into the world around you.

Kusama currently lives in a mental institution in Tokyo by choice while creating her infinity works. For a normal brain to imagine infinity seems to be impossible.

Falling Angel

Angels are celesital beings connected to experiences without rational explanations.These mysterious winged messsengers are present everywhere: you rarely see them, you can only sense them. Their presence is felt when we use our imagination.

Angels do not neccesarily resemble the image we have of them. The pictures we find on paintings represent the wishful thinking of artists of diverse periods.

Flare II, a sculpture of dense wire mess of a falling figure within a wire cloud by Anthony Gromley has been installed in St Paul's Cathedral's Geometric Staircase in London. It leaves viewers to decide whether it is human or angel.

„Flare II is my attempt to use applied geometry to construct an energy field describing a human space in space.” – said Gormley.

The Fractal Art of Alexander McQueen

AMQ unfolds the topography of the female body into plain graphic lines, then he mirrors, rotates and repeats these lines in a geometric way. The resulted graphic is like the pattern of the snake-skin. He puts this graphic on a thin layer of a membrane-like material, and creates the dress-pattern with the contouring lines of the graphic. Then he puts this dress on the female body like a thin second layer.

Perfect fractal way of thinking!