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Description: | Photocopy on paper backed with card of final draft of calligraphic panel with square grid superimposed to allow translation onto vellum final version; an exploration of the philosophy and symbolism of the I Ching or Chinese Book of Changes through hexagram No. 22 using text on numerous scales and various styles (quotations, translations, explanations, commentaries), symbols (trigrams, hexagrams), and schematic drawings (indicating sun, moon, thunder, fire and so on); the hexagram is placed centrally with the commentary associated with it's interpretation written out below; at the top-left the building blocks of the hexagrams and their associations are explained and at the bottom-left a way of reading the hexagram by unpacking it from the bottom up is demonstrated; in the centre-top the fundamental idea of yin and yang is illustrated; at the top right the fertile combination of opposites in the creative process is expanded upon using the principles of the I Ching and at the middle-left Ann Hechle has included a text of her own composition reflecting on her experience of the creative process; at the bottom-right are remarks on 'nuclear trigrams' or the symbolism of the inner sections of the initial hexagram which relate to the heart of the matter - internal truths or tensions Part Of Series: æ Ann Hechle: calligraphy as experiment, expression, and vocation | Subjects: | photocopy of calligraphic panel Ann Hechle Visit draft philosophy photocopy | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Calligrapher: Ann Hechle | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2245... | Go to resource |
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