Wise words from a friend prompt me to consider that the impetus for the PhD was to ‘give back’ something after a lifetime of introspective practice – to communicate the serendipitous nature of art making through the linear logic or words.
I find it difficult to conceive of any other explanation for the sense of connection that can be felt through the primal forms of the circle, spiral, and cross, other than that our environment is a continuous circle of connectivity that begins in our mother’s womb, and expands through our kinesphere to our community and land, and returns to the mother (Gaia).