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Staring At The Sun With My Eyes Closed

By Brad Rumbl 2023

This started with a moment in a local park. I was meditating, sun beaming down, eyes closed. The light formed a geometric pattern behind my eyelids and I HAD to make it.

It is the first Core Devices piece where I truly found the visual language I had been searching for, after years of geometric visions through meditation and therapeutic stroboscopic light, both tools for navigating BPD. These forms carried divine presence, linked to what I had learned about psychology, sacred geometry and philosophy of mind.

The golden scaffolding marks the experiences that gave us meaning. The broken crystal shards carry pain and defeat. A web threads through everything beneath. The central eye holds the tension of being human, the inner eye toward the mind, the physical eye toward the world.

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