Equant Drawing

Under the burden of rocks drawn above, can be seen a cross-section of the hills. They are layered as the inner personality would be, just as every geological age laid down its deposit and raised the level of the surface. The title comes from Ptolemy and his observation of the heavens. He argued that the strange movements of the planets in the sky are result of them revolving around an imaginary point in space called Equant which, in his theory, every planet had. He used it in lack of better explanation of why the planets sometimes stop in the sky and then seem to go backwards. The drawing symbolises an imaginary personal centre, the spot where everything begins and ends, the place where all the thoughts that revolve in circles are buried under the mountains so that they can be forgotten and serve as a foundation for new and happier life. Used paper is 200 gram acid free Fabriano and each peace of the drawing is 30 x 21 cm. The drawing is made in this way because its easy to transport, but also it has a visual value. I was first working on each peace separately and it was later put together on the wall and finished. The drawing is fixated, but some charcoal will come off.