There are many nuances about Sacred Geometry that I could
not get into with my project. To keep it
interesting and free from clutter, I had to make sure to limit what I wanted to
say, though, I think this helped me to create something more meaningful. Putting in too much would only have
distracted from what should be a fun, informative infograph.
I knew I wanted to do an infograph, which is a sort of “I
need to scratch this itch” kind of deal. I love to produce art when there is a
purpose to and here was a great opportunity for me to do so. A simple
infograph is what I ended up with, though there were certainly many challenges.
Oh Adobe Illustrator you dog! I had planned on using Easel.ly, yet right
when I was about to start, I decided to peruse the campus Mac I like to use and
saw to my great surprise and delight that it has the program, Adobe
Illustrator. I had never used
Illustrator, though I knew of its capabilities, and once the thought entered my
mind I could not shake it.
Part of the problem with having such capability is that I
now had the option to create every bit of the project. And, having never used
the program before, much of my time involved figuring out just how to do what I
wanted to do. I had to do it though once I set my mind on it. This added
more time to the project, but it opened up the ability for me to do exactly
what I wanted. The program is great! I
suggest
using it.
So, I had to limit what I might have said with this
infograph. There is just SO much to talk about with Sacred Geometry. All I knew
was that I wanted to talk about the Platonic Solids, and originally was going
to incorporate into it a talk of the Flower of Life. This is not exactly the conversation I ended
up having. I used something called Metatron's Cube, which is derived from part of the Flower of Life, called the Fruit of Life. The Platonic Solids can be seen within this mysterious cube. What I decided to focus on I
think worked much better than a conversation about the Flower of Life, and I put together something I hope everyone
can relate to and can find interest in. You will notice part of the Flower of Life as the background, and the keen observer will notice that the dimensions of the infograph are quite close to the Golden Ratio.
Many religions talk about 5 elements. They are not all the
same, though mostly they all include the 4 main ones: fire, earth, air, and
water. I have seen the fifth being metal or wood, but what I chose to look at
was from the Ayurvedic tradition, whose fifth element is the mysterious ether.
I could not fit a short description I had prepared about
this connection to the Ayurvedic tradition in my infograph, so here I will.
Ayurveda is a traditional Hindu medicine practice. In the Hindu religion,
medicine and spirituality go hand in hand. Ayurvedic medicine, along with yogic
practice, seeks to balance the body and mind. Within the Ayurvedic belief, these elements are considered
fundamental because all that we can think of that exists in some way
incorporates these five elements. Surely
chemists scoff at this notion of “elements,” as was shown to me through my
research, but the idea is not that they correlate with our chemical elements of
our periodic table. The idea of these sacred elements is more of a general
sense of relationship. Besides the characteristics I talked about, they
represent the 4 states of matter – solid, liquid, gas, and plasma – and the
“grid” upon which matter exists – the ether. "The body and mind."
Below are the websites I used to gather my thoughts and gain
insight into how I wanted to create this project.
And this last link is a fun (at least for me) video, giving a look at Metatron's Cube:
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