Goal What on Earth Public Arts Project

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I work, as they do at Goal, trying to make positive changes every day to the planet and assist people to see and understand the bigger picture. It seems people can be so desensitised when we talk about saving lives, when news is streaming with detailed images of suffering, most people are conditioned to see, but not fully understand and ignore the facts in front of them.

My globe design focuses on this, and begins from the very basics of life, our humble beginnings and our existence on the planet. The concept is not for intellectual grasping, but for engaging in and fully understanding the realisation that to save our people, animals, plants, and planet we have to develop an understanding of duality and non-dualility, where dichotomy is transcended. Intellect has limitations when discovering the paradoxical nature of reality and existence. Duality is creation and the forces of nature that create everything we know to exist. Non-duality is seeing this and understanding its connections. 

My interest in Quantum mechanics and the studies of the micro world has inspired my design based on the idea that nothing is separated.

The journey into the Globe starts with the mind; this is represented at the top of the globe. Only a small amount of the world’s population understand that it is our minds that create the very suffering that we have to live with everyday. If we could only rise above the conditioning and control that we face generation after generation, we would be able to tackle the issues that Goal are facing and begin to delete suffering from the planet.

Our minds are conditioned to function in a certain way and from birth we are encouraged to believe we are separate people, living separate lives in a separate country on the planet. We have evolved as a dominant species and with our self importance and determination to progress at all costs we have inflicted disastrous effects on our planet. However when we look at what Quantum physics is now proving we see that we are all made of the same stuff. With this knowledge we can start to open up creative freedom within the thinking mind, seeing the bigger picture, that we are all part of a complex network of connectivity, which the whole globe painting interprets. It is possible to train the mind and see ourselves separately from the limitations of the inner dialogue and independent from the mind. We have immense potential, but must first wake up to what limits us.

So the mind at the top of the world, simplistically represents the inner complexity of neurons and receptors in the brain. It also reflects the complexity of the universe, and in its tree canopy form reflects the interconnecting nature of things. The spinal cord flows out from the brain down through the globe and opens up into the two sets of thirty one spinal nerves, which make up the human spinal cord. These are represented within the structure of a tree, with its branches extending and dividing, stretching out beyond boarders, connecting across the globe through the various countries and continents. Connecting life across the planet through the ultrastructure and infrastructure.  The final Coccygeal nerve loops around the bottom of the globe like the roots of the tree and merges with the universe of planets and stars. These are represented by circular cells, which bring us back to the connectivity of all things, through the basic structure of the cell, the subatomic composition which binds life together. Each perceived star or planet is at a different stage of the division process. The fundamental building blocks of the world are contained within the universe and within the beginnings of life itself. We are in the universe and the universe is within us.

The globe design is inspired by the developing theoretical String theory in Physics, which suggests that all sub-atomic particles are made of string particles and waves, these are the building blocks of everything and make up the multiverse and they all interact and connect in some way. It is what ancient sages and cultures have known for thousands of years. The Buddha taught it in the Paticcasamuppada, in which he said,“Since this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist. That is created because this is created, so if this disappears, that disappears. We are all interconnected beings” and if we distroy one single life form or species it impacts us all. 

On one side of the globe the universal roots travel upwards and merge into the double helix, DNA structures which interconnect with brain neurons and travel back into the mind at the top of the globe. On the opposite side of the globe, one of these interconnecting neuron trees breaks into a synapse across the borders of the Americas, again trying to establish a mind that sees no separation of people or continents. These neuron trees are represented in tree like structures to further enthersise the interconnectivity of everything. The main branches running off of the spinal cord tree float across the globe in all directions, to once again form the interconnectivity between everything on the planet. Hanging from the branches are the leaves, they represent the natural world of flora and fawner, together with every individual animal and human on the Earth.
When we look at life from its very beginnings, we see that from the moment life begins, and the cells start to divide, as presented in the painting by the stars and planets amongst the roots of the spinal cord tree. We are all the same, on the first day of life we are a zygote, then we become 2 cells then we divide into 4, 8 then 16 and then 32 cells, where we become a blastocyst, which then forms an embryo, this was the inspired shape for the leaves. It is so interesting to see that a fish, tortoise, chicken, pig, cow, human, and so on are all similar at the embryo stage and no matter what the developmental form turns into, whatever our parents origin, whatever country we are born in we begin the same. If we really grasp this, it should have an effect on how we treat one another, so long as we are not tricked by the judging mind into believing that we are separated. If we fully understood this reality, surely we would not see our neighbours starve or endure suffering from lack of clean water and disease. We would not pollute or carelessly harm and destroy our home, this planet, or continue to ignore the problems our earth faces.

“What on earth are we thinking?”
The problem is our thinking mind.
Shakespeare said “Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so”