MILNE

NO WAKING DREAM SHALL TINGE MY THOUGHTS 1-4, 2013

200 x 200 cm (total all 4 panels)

(Tetraptych - 4 panels) Acrylic on Caravaggio Linen; each panel Signed, Dated & Titled verso. Additional image available for viewing below, via link.

Provenance: Artist Commission.

Theme:

Alchemy and the Sephiroth diagram.

Out of the darkness of the world one strives for knowledge and order and your own inner ideas.   "If someone really possessed these inner ideas of which Plato speaks, then he could draw his whole life from them and create artwork after artwork without ever reaching an end." (Albrecht Durer)

No waking dream, shall tinge my thoughts,

With colours so bright and vain,

No silken net, so slightly wrought,

Shall tangle me again. 

According to the law of Pythagorean Tetractys, the four seeds of the arcane name of God unfold on ten levels. "The world was created in ten words" (Zohar). In combination with the twenty two letters, the channels through which the divine power circulates, the diagram of the Sephiroth encompasses all possibilities and all combinations of the world of elements.