INSPIRATION
The Universe governed by codes programmed into our beings and surroundings from the infinitesimally small to the infinitely large seems to be governed by our imagined mathematical patterns. It allures us to comprehend the logic and rules that govern it: movement, mass, shape, sound, light, growth, and genetic patterns. To unravel some of its mysteries, connect the imaginary to the real and ponder the depths of its structure, patterns of existence, and creation, we have created and continue to develop language systems and symbols. Shared origins and ancestry because of established trade routes even in the ancient world led to a transfusion of thoughts, ideas, knowledge, philosophy, art, and architectural styles. This collective consciousness of diverse cultures borrowing the same elements from nature, our surroundings and each other has led to the synchronicity of thoughts and ideas. Common to all humankind, our cultural and language symbols are a product of our eternal curiosity and thousands of years of adaptation and assimilation. They derive from the same celestial bodies in our skies, patterns in nature, natural phenomena, and are inherent to who we are and convey deeper meanings about our existence. These symbols usually have a central core or axis and appear to us in all aspects of life: the Atom, the Sun, the Earth, the Moon, the trajectories of planets, planetary systems, galaxies, the cycles of life to our networks of interactions with friends, family, and communities. The Mandala, meaning 'encircled essence', symbolizes this concentric shape and is seen worldwide in cross-cultural traditions and societies. Prescient in its structure is a pattern of existence, the world extending within and beyond our bodies and minds. The inspiration for the symbols in the 'Interactions series'.
PATTERNS IN NATURE

​Nature defines who we are; its forms are seen in our DNA and reflected in our external world in the spiralling helical trajectories of celestial bodies to the spiralling shape of our galaxy. Its mathematical models, those of movement and form, inspire our patterns, symbols and numbers: such as the unfurling of leaves, the parabolic trajectory of objects in flight, the elliptical paths of orbits, the rotation about their axes by planets, the spherical forms of planets, the spirals of our galaxy and cyclones, the rhythm of the tides, fractal growth sequences, sound frequencies, the ratios of whole numbers that govern music, to the codes embedded in genomes.

​PATTERNS MATHEMATICAL

​The quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe and its patterns that follow mathematical models allow us to grapple with our ever-evolving understanding of how things function around us. A product of our imagination, numbers are reflected in our everyday symbols and patterns derived from nature and surroundings. Like people, numbers fall into distinct groups within a larger group, such as odd and even, negative and positive, real and imaginary, prime etc. The omnipresent Infinity confounds yet is present in every aspect of our lives. The connection between shapes, mathematical patterns and their presence in the universe is endless.

​PATTERNS EVERYDAY

​Everyday communication revolves around simplifying a message with a symbol. These symbols started out being specific to certain cultures and geographic locations. Shapes such as celestial bodies to patterns in nature were the inspiration for cultural symbols in all societies. Over time, development has led to communication symbols such as language with specific characteristics belonging to a group of people from a particular region to the development and evolution of numbers and mathematical and scientific ideas. Today, the age-old cultural associations exist alongside modern everyday symbols understood worldwide: road signs, traffic lights, logos of recognizable companies and organizations, everything related to the world wide web, blue tooth and wifi.

​PATTERNS CULTURAL PHILOSOPHICAL

​Symbols developed by generations of humankind belonging to diverse cultures and regions have had similar influences and forms derived from nature, Natural phenomena, seasons, creation, life cycles, the infinity of space and time. Moreover, travel and exchange have added layers of meaning to many of these beliefs. Worldwide our existence, the presence of a creator, myths, traditions and identity is seen in shared symbolism such as floral forms to represent creation and the duality of male and female, the use of basic shapes: such as the triangle to depict a mountain; triangular headed arrows to define rays and direction; circles to represent movement, wheels, progress, celestial bodies and infinity; the Windmill, a solar symbol to denote energy and spiralling movement; The Labyrinth or maze forms to reflect our journey through life.
INTERPRETATION- COLOURS AND SYMBOLS
The desire to communicate and express with words, colour, shape, and form is universal. Art and Design coexist in the spaces we inhabit, the objects we interact with and the stories we tell. The Interactions series conveys an integrated world view that resonates with people from all walks of life, regions, ethnicities, and beliefs that transcend racial and religious biases to communicate a universal message of inclusivity. It connects existential concepts such as creation, life cycles, direction, movement, light, energy, thought, infinity in space and time. It derives from the precept that every creation or invention builds on existing concepts and discoveries made through the ages—the overlay of the new on old foundations. Over time, increased interactions have led to complexity, an infinite range of perceptions and belief systems. Deriving the simple from the complex using a thought process to link and bind the fabric of humanity, one of cross-cultural influences directs the underlying ideas in the Interactions series. 

INTERPRETATION- COLOURS 
Colour significance, specific associations and meaning may differ based on region and culture. For example, Blue is seen as a colour for boys and Pink for girls in many western cultures but has no basis in eastern traditions. White may be the colour of mourning and widowhood in some cultures and the colour of purity and marriage in others. Red and Orange may be seen as colours of fertility in many cultural contexts, a sign of danger and to stop in road signs of everyday symbols. 
Mixing colours to create an endless array of colours represents the infinite permutations and exchanges between people from all walks of life through the ages in the Interactions series. The same shape painted in three colours based on the triad in the colour wheel interprets colour perceptions changing the meaning of a form. The exact shape in a different colour is perceived differently by people. For example, The Lotus form of the secondary Interactions paintings in Orange may appeal to followers of Hinduism, but in Green may appeal to a follower of Islam.

INTERPRETATION- SYMBOLS
The power of telling stories using 'symbols' enables us to relate to something greater than ourselves. The Interactions series bases its symbols on forms with a concentric core or axis that appears to us in all aspects of life. 
The four symbols of the Interactions series are forms that are seen worldwide in nature, mathematical, cultural and everyday symbols and patterns. It uses basic shapes, numbers and philosophies associated with cultural symbols. Some of these cultural symbols used in the Interactions series are the Yin-Yang, the Shri Yantra Mandala, the Star of David, which have a lot of similar underlying ideas. Interdependence, interrelationship and interconnectivity, existential concepts of Creation and lifecycles, our Universe, and the celestial bodies in our skies are the ideas used in each shape.
The Primary depicts the two sides, the two faces of the Moon, one visible to us from the earth and the other hidden from our view. 
The Secondary pattern's radial form of a blossoming flower represents the creation of the Universe. 
The Windmill's spiralling form represents our existence, energy, and time.
The Dromenon's labyrinth form of nested squares represents the layers that we as space explorers are unravelling to discover the enigma of the Universe.  

​MALE AND FEMALE INTERDEPENDENCE
Seen in many world religions and philosophies are the duality of the complementary nature of existence and non-existence, the origin of the universe, its creation, and regeneration. Analogies of this concept of male and female interdependence are used as symbols of creation, seen as fertility or creation symbols such as the Yoni-Lingam in Hinduism and the Ying- Yang in Taoism.

​​The arrow a masculine principle: The paintings use arrows to create direction and movement. Arrows are solar symbols that depict the sun’s rays and direction. A flight of arrows signifies the movement of time and an ascent to the celestial. The arrow is in essence a triangle, a symbol for a mountain. Triangular headed arrows point to the future. They represent virility, the sun’s rays and lightning. 


​​The flower a feminine principle: The shapes in the painting are created using rotational geometry to convey the floral form of the Lotus or Rose, a symbol of creation, new life and beginnings. The Inverted Triangle is a feminine lunar symbol.
THE COLOUR WHEEL

​A colour circle traditionally used in art, based on the hues Red, Yellow and Blue. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colours in 1666. Since then, scientists and artists have studied and designed numerous variations of this concept
Primary Colors: Red, Yellow and Blue. In traditional colour theory, primary colours are the three pigment colours that cannot be mixed or formed by any combination of other colours. Other colours are derived from these three hues.
Secondary Colors: Green, Orange and Purple, are the colours formed by mixing the primary colours.
​​Tertiary Colors: Yellow-Orange, Red-Orange, Red-Purple, Blue-Purple, Blue-Green & Yellow-Green, are the colours formed by mixing a primary and a secondary colour. That's why the hue is a two-word name, such as Blue-Green, Red-Violet, and Yellow-Orange.
​As a representation of racial harmony and interaction, the paintings are conceptualized around the colour wheel, essentially a mandala in form. The addition of light and dark creates a range of values in the hues of the receding and raised spaces, adding another dimension. When rotated about the centre, the triads, the foundation for the paintings in the colour wheel leads to the primary, secondary, tertiary, and an infinite range of colour combinations. This endless mixing of colours is analogous to the intermingling, interaction and mixing of races.
SHRI YANTRA MANDALA 

The Shri Yantra is a microcosm and a macrocosm, the 'primal pair', the twin forces of creative energy- androgyny. The nine interpenetrating triangles signify the creative activity of the male and female, the four upwards-pointing (Male) and the five downwards-pointing (Female) represent the creation of the universe. The 5th female triangle, a counterpart of the 'absolute', remains to unite with the unrepresented, invisible, nameless and formless—the vanishing point or dot amidst the triangles. The square with four gates in the Yantra represents the four directions, and the circles depict plurality and infinity surrounded by lotus petals, a symbol of creation. 
The Interaction paintings use the floral concentric form as symbols of creation and the basic shapes seen in the Shri Yantra: dots, triangles, circles and squares. 
THE HEXAGRAM

The star of David, the Hexagram represents infinity in space and like the Shri Yantra is based on the interdependence of opposites: the upward and downward pointing triangles, representing the union of male and female.
​Yin-Yang

A symbol of creation and complementary interdependence of opposites, The Taoist Yin-Yang is seen as a wave separating the Circle into two halves, black and white, male and female. A 'wave' exists if there is a crest and a corresponding trough, the creation of one being dependent on the other; if either ceases to exist, so does the other creating a straight line, no longer a wave. The dots indicate androgyny, a portion of the male in the female and the female in the male. Energy in all its forms (heat, sound or light) needs waves for its transfer; The existence of the Mind, Power, Reality, Space and Time is dependent on waves.​
The paintings translate this interdependence of opposites with positive and negative shapes using a contiguous solid side and the void.The outlines of the positive (existent) shape determine the shape of the non-existent form.​
INTERPRETATION- SHAPE AND MOVEMENT
All the paintings are created with a single line that starts and ends at the same point. They also follow movement patterns depicted by arrows that show: direction, progress, the passage of time, and interactive patterns such as churning, revolving and spiralling. These symbolic associations convey completion, unity, and continuity of life cycles and creation.
Colours, forms and ideas used in the paintings:
•    Four triads from the colour wheel (The Primary, The Secondary, and the two Tertiary groups). 
•    Basic shapes (Triangle, Circle and Square), 
•    The interaction of the negative and positive arrow shapes to highlight a  movement or direction (Linear in two directions, radiation in and out towards a central point, and clockwise and anticlockwise). 
The three paintings within a triad group are of three different colours but follow the same shape; this highlights our changing perceptions with changing forms and colours.
PRIMARY INTERACTION
​​​This group of paintings follow a triangular form and comprise the three primary colours: Red, Yellow and Blue. The square is divided visually into two triangles representing the interrelationship of arrows creating linear movement in two directions. The seven arrows making the positive form move in one direction, and the seven arrows making the non-existent space move in the opposite direction.
SYMBOLISM: Triangles are the smallest polygons that combine the mathematical and metaphysical principles of harmony in the cosmos and as arrowheads represent the ascent to the divine. Triangles represent the trinity of: creation, preservation and destruction. Trinities have different meanings and interpretations around the world. 
PATTERNS: Sierpinski triangle, Tetractys, Pascal's triangle, Celtic Triquetra, Interlocking triangles, Hexagram
SECONDARY INTERACTION
​​​This group of paintings follows a circular form and comprises three secondary colours: Orange, Purple, and Green. The circular structure and rotational geometry represent the interrelationship of arrows creating radial movement in two directions. The twelve 'arrows' of the positive space radiate outward, and the twelve 'arrows' belonging to the negative (non-existent)space radiate inward; reflected in this interacting pattern of 'arrows' are the shapes of the petals of a blossoming flower, a symbol of creation and new life.
SYMBOLISM: Seen in Planets, life cycles, infinity, movement of wheels and time, acoustic sound patterns - Chladni, blossoming flowers such as the Lotus, Rose and Lily, circles represent the creation process in most cultures.​
​PATTERNS: The Moon, Clock faces, the Wheel, Gears, Rose windows, Ground plans in architecture.
TERTIARY INTERACTION - WINDMILL
This group of paintings follows a square form and comprises three tertiary colours: Red-Orange, Blue-Purple, and Yellow-Green. The square form with four quadrants enclosed in a larger square uses rotational geometry. The eight arrows belonging to the positive space move clockwise, and the eight arrows created by the negative space move anticlockwise.
SYMBOLISM: Squares represent the four directions, foundations, stability, order and the four seasons. 
The Windmill is a solar symbol, one of harnessing energy. ​Seen in mathematics and cultural symbols worldwide, it takes on various forms, for example, in the visual proof of mathematician Fermat's theorem that follows the pattern of 4n+1 primes and the Ulam spiral.
​PATTERNS: Fermat's Windmill, Slavic Rece boga, Lightning bolt, African Nkontim, Aztec cross, Greek cross
TERTIARY INTERACTION - DROMENON
​This group of paintings follows a square form and comprises three tertiary colours: Yellow-Orange, Blue-Green and Red-Purple. The square form in the pattern of nested squares encloses a central 'square'; analogous to the unravelling of the secrets of our universe. The arrows belonging to the positive and negative spaces move in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions.
SYMBOLISM: Squares represent the four directions, foundations, stability, order and the four seasons. The Dromenon symbolises networks and connectivity seen in the pattern of Spider webs, Neural and Arterial systems. Its maze or labyrinth form depicts the journey through life, from the outer world to the inner sacred centre, the point of return and departure— the heart. It represents expansion and contraction from which multiplicity collapses back into unity. 
​PATTERNS: Circuit networks, Roman Labyrinths, Dromenon, Chakravyuha, Hopi Indian Labyrinth, Transport networks
INTERPRETATION- NUMBERS AND CREATION
​To help us communicate, we have created and continue to develop numerous systems: numbers, symbols and language. In the Interactions series, basic shapes such as Triangles, Squares, Circles and Spirals are used in conjunction with number systems tie scientific and philosophical concepts 
  • The singularity of the self
  • The duality of complementary sides
  • The trinity of creation, preservation and destruction
  • The quaternity of direction to 
  • the plurality in our beliefs ​
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7 Arrows Positive space 
​Interacts with -ve space
7 Arrows -ve space Interacts with
​+ve Space
12 Arrows +ve space move outward
12 Arrows -ve space move inward
8 Arrows +ve space move clockwise
​8 Arrows -ve space move anticlockwise
+ve and -ve space Arrows move clockwise anticlockwise

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PRIMARY INTERACTIONS
SECONDARY INTERACTIONS
TERTIARY INTERACTIONS- WINDMILL
TERTIARY INTERACTIONS- DROMENON

PRIMARY - INTERACTIONS INVERSE

Painting details
Interactions Series is a Set Of 13 Paintings 
Size : 160 cm X 160 cm (Frame Size)
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
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