20/100 - Space sigil
After writing about tarot and elder gods and the childhood psychedelia that has inspired me to draw, I'm going to confess today that sometimes I enjoy empty things, meaningless things. And not in a brooding nihilistic way. Sometimes too much meaning can be like too much flavor and one needs a sip of water or a bite of unsalted rice.
I think that's why I'm attracted to patterns. There is something soothing about repetitive motifs. Like the visual equivalent of repeating a word over and over until it stops pointing to its attached meaning and ,for an instant, it becomes an empty signifier, just a sound. Patterns of course are not devoid of meaning by definition, but they often contain that luxury. I can enjoy a pattern because it's just pretty, it looks good on that fabric or it exists despite human efforts. Sometimes a pattern is an empty vessel, like the square grid on a page.
Today's drawing doesn’t have a lot of pattern but it feels a little empty to me, in a good way. I was mostly attracted by the shapes, the way they fill space with a little symmetry. The final result almost like a magic symbol, a sigil that points to playful emptiness.
This hand drawn magic symbol for skeptics lives on a 2.5" by 3.5" piece of birch plywood and you can purchase it here(sold).