Wings

The last rays of the sun were leaving the valley when I walked through the woods down to the log lodge, still so quiet. I remember silently taking the paper trash from the cabin to another circle of stones beside the creek where it was burned and the ashes sprinkled on the garden. This time, as I lit the papers with a match, the fire glowed and fizzed with a pattern that accentuated all the geometrics of what it was I was burning. Wrapping and ribbons from gifts, long golden strands from the brush of my beautiful, brave wife, notes, cards and letters, all loving symbols. I remember how the edges and corners of everything stood out and began to glow with phosphorescent runners that shot out from the fire to light up everything they touched, including me.

     Transfixed, I was aware that I too was glowing with an inner light that filled me with joy. In wonder I left the fire and walked into the meadow where the garden lay. Passing between two old apple trees in bloom and buzzing with bees enhanced a feeling of oneness with all the living things around me. I felt a feeling of falling within myself when stepping into the garden with its orderly rows of vegetables and flowers. In an instant I was stunned with the knowledge that there really was a powerful spirit that was present and focused on me. Now on my knees, I held out my arms to accept the embrace of the glorious light that suddenly filled me. Experiences such as this are called “enlightenment”. An instant of understanding that everything in the universe is composed of one thing. All the elements had a common source, a divine source.

     The material world, of which I am a part, is comprised of infinite rhythmic variations. This “Energy dance” was vibrant with a harmonic chord the forest and the garden chorused all about me, reverently, “Father, Mother, God!” People reacted to me differently after that experience, they gave me books and told me of similar experiences they’d had or read about. It was then that the Golden Section came to be a guiding factor in my desire to create sculptures and paintings inspired by that one experience. The concept of working with ideas that concerned light and energy in a new way. Re-examination of this ancient idea, the Golden Section, in the light of the twentieth century fascinated me.