ALL SEEING EYES, TRIANGLES AND PYRAMID DUDES part1

posted by Askew One on 2010.01.11, under My Work Explained, Uncategorized
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Use of ‘The Eye Of Providence’ in art is hardly a novel concept. It was with a little bit of trepidation that I started using this symbol in my art work but it’s interesting to look back on how it developed and become almost synonymous with my pieces these past few years.

‘The Eye Of Providence’ or ‘The All Seeing Eye Of God’ has its origins in religious imagery occurring in Egyptian mythology (The Eye Of Horus), Buddhism and Christianity (The Holy Trinity). Since 1782 it has featured on the reverse of the ‘Great Seal Of The United States’ and since 1935 appeared on the US one dollar bill. Most people would generally make the association with the ‘Freemasonry’ but more specifically ‘Masonic Conspiracies’. These conspiracies generally centre on politics (One World Order), religion (accusations of satanic practice) and culture (numerology and Masonic symbolism in corporate logos and entertainment).

‘The Eye Of Providence’ is obviously a symbol steeped in history, loaded with religious and political subtext but I have also often wondered why the triangle as a symbol really resonates with people at a totally primary level? Could it be that triangles are the strongest geometric shape and occur commonly in architecture? Or perhaps it’s that the triangle has appeared since early civilizations as the symbol of the trilogy or the triad that makes all existence possible. For example -‘The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost’. Triangles and definitely Pyramids often symbolise hierarchy, especially in relation to societal structure and the distribution of knowledge, power and wealth. Regardless of whether you subscribe to the notion of a structured ‘Illuminati’, ‘pulling the strings’ it has to be said that a ‘Big Brother’ concept married with the idea of ‘The Haves’ dictating their will upon ‘The Have Nots’ is intrinsically intertwined with this symbol.

Some examples of Freemason-esque design in local logos:


Auckland City Council, NZ Made, NZX, North Shore City Council

These are some examples of my first forays into discussing this subject matter in my work:

Most of these pieces feature either ‘The Eye’ not contained in the pyramid or just the pyramid. My main addition to the eye was the stylised ‘B-Boy’ eyebrow. I don’t think I was the first to have incorporated these ideas into my pieces by any means.

The Mighty Dollar, 2007. 1500mm x 2200mm, Spray Paint on Perspex with Fluorescent light.

The Mighty Dollar
This was a more serious work done as a commission. It started as a series of pencil and ink drawings with studies of various plays on the ‘Eye Of Providence’ and the popular conspiracies connected with power, money, faith and apocalypse. The central image features several intersecting symbols -‘The cross’, ‘The Star Of David’, ‘The Eye Of Providence’ and the pyramid itself is built from the words ‘The Mighty Dollar’, obviously a play on ‘TMD’. To the left of this is my interpretation of ‘Michael The Archangel’ fighting the great battle in Heaven. This is based on the Luca Giordano painting circa 1663. At the bottom centre of the work is my version of St.John The Evangelist on the island of Patmos. I looked at several paintings depicting this scene including the 1518 panel from St. John Altar by Hans Burgkmair The Elder and noticed the reoccurrence of the black bird, which I also chose to include. At the bottom right is ‘WWW’ a play on the conspiracy surrounding the fact ‘W’ is the 6th letter/number in the Greek and Hebrew alphabets. The top right shows a battle between a snake and a dog. This refers characters I developed in my painting and illustrative work to show the two archetypal human personalities I’ve observed. It’s a very simplistic view but one I developed whilst redefining a lot of friendships and business relationships.

The Pyramid Dude
A healthy scepticism of mainstream media was a major motivator in my adoption of ‘The Eye’ into my art. Realising how skewed ratings-driven news media is as a concept I started to grow a real disdain for it. I also started to observe trends in our local media where sensationalist headlines tended to drive public opinion so much that it allowed highly ‘draconian’ legislation to be passed very easily. It seemed to me that if the ‘powers that be’ dress something up in the right clothes to make it a palatable concept, anything is possible. It’s political engineering and perhaps local media isn’t always as separate from that process as it should be. From this observation was where my initial ‘Pyramid Dude’ drawings drew inspiration.

The original ‘Pyramid Dude’ came like an epiphany to me whilst working on a T-Shirt Illustration for a friend of mine. It was such a simple merger of two iconic characters that encapsulated the issues so perfectly. Here you have the perfect vehicle for ‘The Powers That Be’ to dress their agendas as light entertainment or divert people’s attention away from the real issues. Also the extra play on it being so ‘Mickey Mouse’ was too hard to resist.

Photography by Rimoni

The ‘Life Is Just A Pyramid Scheme’ was the first time this character was painted in spray. This was a wall with Vents RTR, where if you notice, the character is gesturing to Auckland City and the Skytower.

To be continued…

comment

This is important to see, especially in the graffiti scene, far to many writers cannot give explanations or any type of theory behind their work.
(some may not want to, and thats ok)
But Im glad to see the depth behind your work come out.

Love the Luca Giordano refrence and your version too.

Your the mantis bro!

saves ( January 11, 2010 at 11:08 am )

I saw that nowadays many graffiti artists use the Eye symbol with a triangular, but you know, they do it from the truly desire to do it.
I have started doing compositions with chairs, geometry and massonic eyes about six moths ago. It happend somehow – just because it must have been appeared somewhere – so as I and all the artists are making a great job by intorpitating this symbol – because it’s the most perfect time to draw the power that orders ya to obey, which wheares the ship’s fur.

CHAIR ( January 11, 2010 at 6:21 pm )

Thanks guys, of course I’m not what you’d consider an expert on the subject, this has been my learning experience too. Just having a thought or an idea in the first place seemed to be missing from a lot of the graffiti I was doing and also a lot of my peers. I think it’s great to use art as a means to educate yourself and explore the wealth of subject matter out there.

Askew One ( January 11, 2010 at 7:10 pm )

Awesome work on the symbology. You’ll dig synchs then I guess… Check my site for more on the eye of Horus and the holy trinity.

Peace

Stef ( January 11, 2010 at 10:12 pm )

Hey Stef, Just checked out your site. Awesome. By Synchs I assume you mean Synchronicity? Yeah I get a lot of that in my life as well as reoccurring numbers I see daily. I see 1:11 on my clock daily, both am and pm. I get 3:33 a couple of times a week. My mother gets both those numbers as well.

Askew One ( January 11, 2010 at 10:38 pm )

Askew! Have you read Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper? You must read this book! I have a copy , its hard to get hold of but its a must read! Also try and track down Genesis Revisted by Zecharia Sitchin!

Peap ( January 14, 2010 at 2:06 am )

Thanks Peap, I will look into those!

Askew One ( January 14, 2010 at 1:14 pm )

hey i have a question. Askew, on your primary flight pieces, what inspires you to do all of those colors and shapes and such. Those pieces that are that colorful are just SOOOOOOOO INSPIRATIONAL to me. the craziness just blows my mind.

FOLEK ( January 19, 2010 at 1:18 am )

Hey Folek.. I’m actually going to get into that topic in my next series of posts after the 3rd part of this one… To give you a very quick answer though, I look at shape and colour that occurs in natural formations for a different type of inspiration. My mind tends to only think in logical terms when dealing with colour whereas nature can distribute an unlikely array of colour and it works perfectly!

Askew One ( January 19, 2010 at 4:53 am )

You got it, A1.

Stef ( January 20, 2010 at 5:48 am )

dope man!!!! GREATLY APPRECIATED

FOLEK ( January 22, 2010 at 4:31 am )

Just rebumped into your site bro. Great job and really enjoying the write ups. It’s refreshing to see so much thought being put into graffiti beyond the typical. You’ve inspired me and I appreciate you sharing.

Host18 ( January 25, 2010 at 2:08 pm )

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