About Cities of Light Series

This sculpture collection is based on the 5 polyhedrons (solids with flat faces) called the Platonic Solids. In three-dimensional space, a Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron. It is constructed by congruent (identical in shape and size), regular (all angles equal and all sides equal), polygonal faces with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex.

Philosophers, geometers, mathematicians, artists and architects have studied the Platonic solids for thousands of years. Historical accounts vary slightly, but it is usually agreed that the solids themselves were discovered by the early Pythagoreans, approximately 450 B.C. Evidence suggests that the Egyptians knew at least three of the solids; their work influenced the Pythagoreans.

The Platonic solids were named after the ancient Greek philosopher Plato who put forward in his dialogue Timaeus, that the classical elements were made of these regular solids. He identified the solids with the elements commonly believed to make up all matter in the universe. In Plato’s times, people believed that all things were made up of five different atoms. They were fire, air, water, earth, with the fifth being the cosmos (the universe itself). Plato identified fire atoms with the tetrahedron, earth atoms with the cube, air atoms with the octahedron, water atoms with the icosahedron, and the cosmos atoms with the dodecahedron. Of the fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, Plato stated “…the god used [it] for arranging the constellations on the whole heaven”.

Cities of Light was inspired by a research trip to the sacred vortex zone of great salt Lake Gardner, South Australia in late 2019. The sands were red and the salts white, with hints of pink from mixing with the red earth. Hexagonal like patterns covered the crusty surface and the salt grew beautiful crystalline forms all over anything that surrendered its presence to become one with the lake.

Salt has a natural cubic geometric structure. When you magnify salt it looks like pillars, cubes, crystals, columns of crystal that mirror the sacred geometric structure in other parts of nature such as the mineral kingdom, water, blood crystals, pyramidal brains cells, galaxy distribution, and the world UVG grid. These same structures are also the inspiration  behind the sacred design and architecture of sacred sites and temples around the world. Humankind has had an inherent connection and understanding of these geometries since before recorded history. When we walk into the architecture of these structures the sacred geometry of the space mirrors the geometry in our body. As within as without. Connecting us through sacred geometry and the sacred musical resonance, they can vibrate our bodies to feel connected to the higher geometries of Supernature.

There have been many stories of people witnessing cities in the mist and mirages of the salt lakes, bodies of water, oceans and coastal regions of the world. Myths and legends of these cities tell of beautiful buildings that resemble pyramids, temples and the sacred polyhedrons like the platonic solids. Each of these environments have reflective qualities that reflect the heavens. But maybe they are also reflecting the higher heavens or giving us a momentary peak into another worlds. Or maybe our future world.

At night the lake and the heavens merge. The geometries of the earth meet the geometries of the heavens. The crystals of our bodies vibrating with the crystals of the earth connecting with the  “Sea of Crystal” (the Milky Way in ancient Chinese mythology) of the heavens.

Each piece is unique and one off sculpture, full of natural inclusions, giving each piece a different texture and shape like crystals the grow in nature.