Dr. Messmer's Thanksgiving Dinner

Franz Anton Mesmer was a European medical practitioner and philosopher in the late 1700s who founded a school of health he named Mesmerism. After a short period of acceptance in the popular culture, it faded away from lack of results. However some of his thoughts carried on into the early teaching of Freud and the founding of hypnotism. The word Mesmerize means to transfix or to hold ones attention to the exclusion of all else.

In my art I attempt to bring forth symmetry, that is geometrical work as most often demonstrated by Eastern art in it's use of mandalas.
In this piece I abstractly refer to a barnyard turkey surrounding an expanding set of tail feathers emanating from the center point called in Hindu art ''bindu''



And as I am presenting one work with Mesmer in the title, I have another to offer called Dr. Mesmer's Cosmic Clock factory.



This piece also features a solid ''bindu'' which in art is symbolic of the center of existence. This piece uses several other symbolic references. Surrounding the bindu is a four petaled labyrinth, another symbol for ones path through life. I also utilize re-occuring white balls such as in the bindu, held in place by the outer aspects of the labyrinth. These white balls can be understood to be pearls held by what Hinduism calls, Indra's Web, that structure by which all existence is held.

As well, the outer ring of balls are exact copies of the center labyrinth. In Hinduism, Indra's Pearls are seen as a pearl necklace symbolizing the entire universe where each pearl is an exact duplicate of each other, each embodying the totality existence.

If anyone likes, I have recently posted several of my other works here.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
Franz Anton Mesmer was a European medical practitioner and philosopher in the late 1700s who founded a school of health he named Mesmerism. After a short period of acceptance in the popular culture, it faded away from lack of results. However some of his thoughts carried on into the early teaching of Freud and the founding of hypnotism. The word Mesmerize means to transfix or to hold ones attention to the exclusion of all else.

In my art I attempt to bring forth symmetry, that is geometrical work as most often demonstrated by Eastern art in it's use of mandalas.
In this piece I abstractly refer to a barnyard turkey surrounding an expanding set of tail feathers emanating from the center point called in Hindu art ''bindu''

And as I am presenting one work with Mesmer in the title, I have another to offer called Dr. Mesmer's Cosmic Clock factory.

This piece also features a solid ''bindu'' which in art is symbolic of the center of existence. This piece uses several other symbolic references. Surrounding the bindu is a four petaled labyrinth, another symbol for ones path through life. I also utilize re-occuring white balls such as in the bindu, held in place by the outer aspects of the labyrinth. These white balls can be understood to be pearls held by what Hinduism calls, Indra's Web, that structure by which all existence is held.

As well, the outer ring of balls are exact copies of the center labyrinth. In Hinduism, Indra's Pearls are seen as a pearl necklace symbolizing the entire universe where each pearl is an exact duplicate of each other, each embodying the totality existence.

If anyone likes, I have recently posted several of my other works here.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

So Beautiful!

What material is it made from? I'm sorry if I missed that.

edit on 11 14 2022 by BelleEpoque because: (no reason given)