Artist's Notes
"A Cosmic Knot" story and images were created as part of my MFA thesis project at Academy of Art University in 2008.
It represents my deep dive into the knot as a potent mystical and spiritual symbol—a contemporary exploration using digital art to unravel its meanings.
My core intent was to investigate how this ancient form symbolizes our connection to the spiritual, the interplay of order and chaos, and ultimately, how the self, much like Don Marquis' 'knot, in the tangled skein of things,' is woven from chance and change. This project was my way of using the computer as a medium to give form to these profound, often unseen, connections.
On a personal level, this project was transformative for me.
It marked a return to my artistic core after a decade in commercial design, a deliberate effort to find and express my own unique voice.
The knot itself became a metaphor for my own path—the initial fascination, the struggle to understand its 'secrets,' and the eventual realization that the true exploration had to come from within.
The call to find the 'soul of the project' was a pivotal moment, pushing me to shed a purely academic approach and instead infuse the work with my own experiences, spirituality, and search for beauty beyond the superficial.
This process of creating "A Cosmic Knot," with its nine symbolic stages mirroring life's great archetypal events, became intrinsically linked to my own MFA experience: a challenging, illuminating, an...