I am playing with a new NFT generative artwork for Art Blocks. The title I am playing with is Eight. I was originally thinking of calling it “Cultural Appropriation”.
It contains ideas about fate and luck, future and fortune. Use the trigrams to consult the Book of Changes I-Ching.
My first sold out release on Art Blocks was Color Magic Planets. This is my follow up to it.
1. Lost
The Dharma Initiative stickers are from the ABC online store.
2. His Dark Materials
3. I Ching
The trigrams used. They have many names an meanings.
- ☰ Qian – Heaven
- ☱ Dui – Lake or River
- ☲ Li – Fire
- ☳ Zhen – Thunder
- ☴ Xun – Wind
- ☵ Kan – Water
- ☶ Gen – Mountain
- ☷ Kun – Earth
I was fascinated by I-Ching and its relation to the development of binary systems as described in this article.
中文（简体）: 太极八卦图 Connormah
4. Ezekiel 10
And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like unto a beryl stone. And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been within a wheel. When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went. And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had. As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing the whirling wheels. And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. American Standard Version public domain
The Spaceships of Ezekiel
One day when I was in middle school I found this book at the library about a theory that the vision of Ezekiel was actually aliens visiting in a spaceship. He had elaborate diagrams of the craft.
5. Slot Machine by Bell Fruit Company
6. Zodiac Glyphs & Multi-cultural Glyphs
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7. The Matrix
8. And the Magic 8 Ball
Find out more about I-Ching and binary systems in this article.
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