The Promise
The distinction between antiquity and mysticism has always been a little hazy for me... anything before the Industrial Revolution takes on a magical quality. Leonardo Da Vinci was a great many things, but it was his work with human form that will always mark him as a true seeker.

The proportions of the human form he documented have been the foundation of many derivative works, and this should be counted among them; it is an overlay of his meticulous vision with my own perceptions. This particular piece - Vitruvian Man - has become an archetypal image, a glyph representing the human form and all it encompasses. As such, it serves here as a symbol of not only what humanity is, but also what it may be.

Who can say what we are capable of. As the human genome is slowly deciphered, we discover more and more wonders of this shell we wrap ourselves in. Memory is still a mystery, and thought is still a terra incognita to the neuroscientists. What wonders are we capable of? It would be an awful waste of material if all there was to the human form was food and sex... don't you think?

The Promise was used on the cover of the Kryon Quarterly magazine in 1999... the issue later won a production award for best cover layout.