Peace de Résistance

Peace de Résistance - Background

The internationally recognized symbol for peace was originally designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958 as the logo of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Over the past 50 years, the peace sign has become familiar in our lives. Let’s allow it’s meaning to manifest in our Heart.

Ironically, Peace de Résistance and its narrative poem were completed, signed, and dated before I realized the completion date was the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Peace de Résistance

Defying orthodox and common conventions,
unique and special—a place of calm, space of quiet…

...transcendently adorned—the soul of us all passing unobstructed through sovereign ego;
at once, far beyond sensual reaction and resistance,
while intrinsically endowing—now.

The vibrant Green suspends unity with derivation—a stitch in time;
the balance—remnants forgone, forgotten, but foretold;
remnants remiss with gross unseemliness, now perceived with endowing light.
Behold the One comprised of the gross, forgone, and forgotten.

The sign of calm and quiet—macro of dualistic micros:
Holtom’s unclear—nuclear all clear, or gesture of despair?
Inverted, broken cross—a debauchery?
Crows foot—symbols to show relationships?
Peace and love—or rune of death?

…of feather and root—freedom of flight, solidarity of root.
…of tri-maille links studded in faceted red, hemp-leashed to bone shard—design vs. organic.
…of duo-wishbones bound together—cluck with the luck of it.
…of inverted hangman nooses suspending bell flowers—history knelling and beckoning us.
…of helix spanning nooses—spiraling inclination to repeat atrocity; springing resistance.
…of intertwined hanger (unity) and remnant-strung fob (linear)—as above, as below.

peace: a state of calm and quiet…
peace: freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility
peace: mental calm; serenity
peace: freedom from or the cessation of war or violence
peace: a treaty agreeing to the cessation of war between warring states
peace: freedom from dispute or dissension between individuals or groups
Peace…So be it; truly.

---hhw11Sep2011 (Conferred 25Dec2012)

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360° Perspective

360° Perspective - Definitions

• Perspective: a) the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed: also: POINT OF VIEW b) the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance
• Point of view: a position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated

360° Perspective

I never consciously envision the outcome of my creative expression beforehand. My art comes together one remnant at a time--synchronistically. This piece came together in the same way. It is, however, more dynamic in terms of perspective.

From the beginning, it was obvious that unlike my others, this piece is intended to be viewed from every point around its vertical column (...hence, its name). This new dynamic forced me to expand my perspective since the piece has an infinite number of viewpoints--or points of view.

Infinite points of view!?...Infinite genetic combinations...Infinite unique fingerprints...Infinite human perspectives...

If it were not too long and cumbersome, the name of this piece would be How In GOD's Name Can We Judge Another Of Our 7,000,000,000 Siblings For Honoring Their Perspective While We Remain Ignorant of Their Point Of View? (...hence, its name.)

---hhw2012

See more photos at e-hhw.com--after all, it's to be viewed from infinite viewpoints.