Enochian experiment – ‘Chaos’

The Enochian experiment is based upon a personal interpretation of the Enochian Key. The Enochian Key is a language written down by John Dee in the 16th century, when he was said to be spoken to by angels. According to Dee’s journals, angelical was supposed to have been the language God used to create the world, and which was later used by Adam to speak with God and the angels, and to name all things in existence.

For every Enochian syllable, there’s an English equivalent. Each letter has various characteristics: a symbol, a numerical value, one (or in some cases two) colors, a chemical symbol and so on. I abstracted the symbols by forming a grid in which every Enochian letter can be placed. The design of the symbols depend on its own characteristics, f.e. the thickness/weight of the line may be set by its numerical value. When doing this with every letter of a word, illustrations are formed. The main idea is to create illustrations not influenced directly by own emotions but by following a calculation or a code.

This illustration shows the word ‘Chaos’. Similar to the black and white prints for ‘Earth, Air, Fire and Water’ but with more values used to form the illustrations, f.e. the dashes depend on its numerical value.


 2015
 Enochian experiment
 Silkscreen

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