It has never been easier to connect, and connections have never been weaker. The abundance of options raises a question: what is relationship actually for?
It is common now to have many followers, to know many people in person, but to have no friends. Meaningful relationships have thinned out. The surface is crowded. The depth is empty.
This is not a technological problem. It is a problem the hermetic traditions mapped long before modern life amplified it.
In initiatic Sumerian cosmology, the heart chakra answers to Aries and Libra. Libra governs relationship: the capacity to associate, the instinct to bond, the pull toward the other. But Libra does not operate alone. It exists in tension with Aries, the archetype of the self.
When the Aries-Libra axis is balanced, relationship begins with a person who knows who they are, what they value, and what they are building. The self is solid enough to offer something real. When the axis is broken, connection becomes indiscriminate. Anyone can be a friend. Anyone can be a partner. Without self-knowledge, there is no criterion for choosing, because there is no self to choose from.
Jung put it simply: "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." The dream is that someone else will make you whole. The awakening is that wholeness was never theirs to give.
Connection begins inward, or it does not begin at all.
Visually, the piece centers on the Sumerian secret seal of Libra, woven with hermetic geometry.
Giclée on 3mm aluminum Dibond
60 x 60 cm (~24 x 24 in)