The Heart of the Mind

The book as an object and subject of reference illustrates the very characteristics of its essence as a metonymy, not only in the sense of corresponding and synonymous words, but also as a self-derivative, as an act of entry into the mind’s-heart. Fusing emotion and intellect as an integrative entity takes place while leafing through form as content.

The geometrical shape page, of the books converging based on the Golden Section proportions. The isometric shape page, of the books that touch upon the spatial rhythm of architectural outline. A page for the books’ fan shape under the transparency of a spiral delineating the collision of an oxygen ion in a circular particle accelerator.

Attached to the cover is a bronze cast of a bookshelf with books that represent contents, beginning with science via Signals and Systems – a book of physics that describes systems for communication signal processing, through Sefer Yetzirah in the field of metaphysics, to Tao of Physics which deals with the affinities between east and west and between modern physics and metaphysics, concluding with Heart of the Mind as an attempt at linking to and unifying with the eternal cosmic consciousness out of an act of inner fine-tuning achieved by opening the wisdom of the heart to the mind’s heart in slow and silent surf, requiring neither ritual nor religious model.

The book enfolds various wavelength rhythms. Communication waves, radiation waves, brain waves and water waves in reference to the semantic essence of the word ‘water’ as consciousness and sub-consciousness. Photographs of historical libraries as culture time, and drawings of biological libraries in the form of DNA, as an encoded reservoir of letter combinations.

Through the process of leafing, fine-tuning to the heart’s desires is explored as motion in time. Through the literal content, touching upon emotion is revealed time and again as movement. Both the Latin ‘emovere’ and the English ‘emotion’ are, in fact, words denoting movement.

Etched in copper like an a-material drawing on the book’s back cover, the spiral within which the library is palpably cast in the object’s facade is, in fact, a manifestation of the orbits of Venus and Mercury around themselves and around the sun.

The motion of these celestial bodies is reminiscent in shape of the molecular movement of electrons orbiting around the nucleus of an atom.

A formal fusion of the macro and micro is also demonstrated in the spiral movement of the human Code of Life (DNA), which is the same motion of energy flow from one sphere (sefira) to another in the Universal Code of Life – the Tree of Life. In fact, the patterns of consciousness – the books – which are marked as a square within the cycle of motion, namely the spirit of emotion, illustrate the flexible transition between an inner and an outer world, generating the concept of ‘The Heart of the Mind.’