Transforming Trigrams

Three means of changing lines around theAbysmal Wheel of the Year.

North – blue
East – green
South – yellow
West – red

Using the above colours and the structure of the I Ching, I’ve come up with a series of images made up of stacked lines.

Circles of two-, three-, and four-line images

In the I Ching’s function as a divinatory system, a starting image is determined, and lines are changed to create a second image. The idea is to contemplate the change between the first and the second. Because the I Ching is binary, any line that changes simply switches to its opposite: dark becomes light, and light becomes dark.