If I've never said this before, I think religious iconography comes from an innate desire to go back to a primitive oneness - to be part of an undulating amoeba - to be a simple single cellular organism. Radiolaria, discovered by the Victorian biologist, Ernst Haeckle are beings, usually found at the bottom of the ocean which have not changed much or evolved since the Pre-Cambrian period of pre-history.
I think when we look at church imagery, it recalls a state of being one
of these early creatures from which we evolved so long ago, and brings
with it that feeling of oneness with all other primitive matter. This is
what I think religious feeling is. I've started a series based on
fractals and here is the first. They will be mordancaged.
The repeated
and reproducing shape, like sex, evolves into complex mathematically
perfect structures, while the Mordancage chemicals, like death eats away
at the material. I am striving for a balance of creation and
destruction in these images.
