CONUNDRUM
This series delves into the unknown through typographic and symbolic abstractions. Here, language and symbols form the building blocks, giving rise to these explorations. A central motif is the recursive, concentric mandala of questions - a representation of an unending quest into the heart of mystery.
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This collection also endeavors to capture the emotional landscape of bewilderment and fascination with the unfathomable nature of reality. It explores these complex states through colors, numbers, and symbols that embody binary duality - such as 1s & 0s, black & white or sadness & happiness.
"Wheel of Conundrum"
2016
"Code"
2015
A mandala spun from cascading question marks, it aims to transform punctuation into contemplation. Successive concentric ranks of the question marks taper in scale, spiraling toward an unreachable core.
A warped grid field serves like a background of provisional. Conceived in 2015, it has been restyled and revisited many times, becoming a staple of my practice. Though its interrogatives multiply without limit, the design resolves into a finite emblem, an intentional yāntra for quiet meditation, born of a period when I was most absorbed by life’s ultimate mystery.
"Pearls"
2015
"Conundrum mandala"
2016 / 2021
The work performs epistemic vertigo: an “inspective inquiry” that folds back on itself until boundaries between observer, question, and cosmos blur. By combining a devotional mandala structure with punctuation and surveillance imagery, it sanctifies uncertainty and positions consciousness as a self-questioning fractal.
In a kaleidoscopic plunge into recursive mystery, rings of interrogatives spiral toward a blinding nucleus while strings of watchful eyes rim the frame like sentries of self-reflection.
"Wheel of Conundrum / Gold & Red"
2020
"Magnified dualism"
2017
"Eye"
2015
"Duality"
2017
"Duality II"
2017
"Duality III"
2017
"Wheel of Conundrum - variant"
2020
"Grid of Conundrum - variant"
2020
"Wheel of Conundrum - variant"
2020
"Amplitude of emotion"
2016
