Featured Design of the Month: June 2022
Featured Design of the Month: June 2022
Image Title: Spirit of Water
I chose this image as the Featured Design for June 2022 because of the importance water plays in our lives as we enter the season of summer.
This design is titled "Spirit of Water" because the six Möbius circles are organized in a pattern that represents the Spirit of Water symbol. There is a drop of water cradled in the center which, by reflecting the design, contains the spirit of the design.
In an essay published on the Humans and Nature website titled "Listening to the Spirit of Water", the author, Chief Tamale Bowya, wrote:
"Water is one of the mysterious gifts of nature that supports and holds life on earth. Many indigenous communities knew the values of water a long time ago and to them water was considered to be the source of life. On the surface water can be seen as food, a means of transport, a ground for recreation or an element for cleansing, purification, and initiation in cultural ceremonies. But a deeper analysis into the values of water reveal that water is a sacred being that holds life on earth; a seed in the soil does not germinate until it receives water, which demonstrates that it is the spirit of water that ignites the production of life."
Also in this essay, Chief Tamale Bowya describes the spiritual nature of water in the following passage:
"The sacredness of water has diverse sources to support it. Water is a natural resource with unique value and consciousness that enables it to sense any slight imbalance in the life-sustaining systems. It is through water that we are physically and spiritually interrelated and interconnected with the living and non-living beings of earth and to the whole of life. Spirituality reveals that all material beings contains some spiritual life working in them, and since spirits are living entities, they travel from one material to another correcting and depositing different energy levels that get carried away by water, or through other conventional means, to heal the planet and the cosmos."
This design is an attempt to capture the sacred nature of water as described by Chief Tamale Bowya in this essay.
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The design is made up of six Möbius structures arranged in a circular, interlocking pattern. Water droplet spheres are arranged in a flowing pattern to give the design a fluid motion effect.