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LABYRINTHS. Lin Kerr artwork available as limited-edition giclée prints. LABYRINTH - MAN OF SORROW. LABYRINTH - MAN OF SORROW. In numerology, number 11 is significant and note…. MAN OF SORROW. the 11 spheres of life – mercy etc. & 22 connections as represented by the Hebrew alphabet.
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LABYRINTHS • Lin Kerr artwork available as limited-edition giclée prints
LABYRINTH - MAN OF SORROW • In numerology, number 11 is significant and note…
MAN OF SORROW • the 11 spheres of life – mercy etc. & 22 connections as represented by the Hebrew alphabet
LABYINTH - MAN OF SORROW • “He is a man of sorrow and familiar with suffering” Isaiah 53:3
LABYRINTH: PATER NOSTER • Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur Nomen tuum…
PATER NOSTER • Lettering inspired by Shu-Mom syllabary from Afrikan Alphabets by Mafundikwe
PATER NOSTER • …dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris
PATER NOSTER • History of the ancient ritual walk on the Chartres Labyrinth
PYTHAGORAS Q.E.D. • now part of the Fitzwilliam Contemporary Collection of Calligraphy
PYTHAGORAS – SINE AND COSINE • Left panel: Pythagoras live d in the 6thC BC. None of his writing survived
PYTHAGORAS – BY REARRANGEMENT • The elements of the squares “a” and “b“ are re-arranged to produce “c”
KIMONO – WEARABLE ART • Chinese rice paper printed, pleated, stitched on a background of mixed media
KIMONO – WOMEN WHO CANNOT CROSS THEIR LEGS • “your steps are hindered by the narrow skirt”
FIBONACCI SPIRAL • 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89 – each number is the sum of the preceding 2 numbers
FIBONACCI • 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89…
ROSE WINDOW • The side of each square is the size of the diagonal of the preceding square
TURNING SQUARES • Squares revolve at 10˚creating smaller squares within the perimeter of the previous square
SQUARE ROOT SPIRAL • Spiral of right angled triangles where the base of the triangles is constant