Echoes

I sought to create artwork to pose three questions:

1. Where do we come from?

2. Why are we here?

3. Where do we go?

Those are big questions . . . and to find a way to pose these questions in a painting was a wild proposition. So I sought inspiration in the Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, Everything Everywhere All at Once and the Pink Floyd song “Echoes” (when synced up with the “Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite” chapter of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey).

I landed on creating something akin to the Big Bang where creation of space, time, matter, life, and everything in between emanates from the Tao. The sacred geometric symbols floating outward from the center represent the flower of life. When it was all said and done, it reminded me of a quote by Sri Aurobindo:

“What, you ask, was the beginning of it all?

And it is this . . .

Existence that multiplied itself

For sheer delight of being

And plunged into numberless trillions of forms

So that it might

Find

Itself