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.

Four by Four by Four by Four Directions

the Cardinal Directions, and the fractals of scaling

This is an ongoing exploration of the 4 Cardinal Directions as a foundation for daykeeping (the 256-day calendar in particular).

Most recently, these two visualizations of the bi-, tri-, and quadrigrams of theAbysmal Year. These are images (inspired by the I Ching) made up of two, three, or four lines arranged vertically. Each line is one of the four colours associated with the Cardinal Directions.

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

This can be extended to the intermediary directions:

NW – violet
NE – green-blue
SE – yellow green
SW – orange

There are two versions of these images: clockwise, which follows the sequence of the Seasons;

the clockwise circle of 4-16-64-256

North – Winter
East – Spring
South – Summer
West – Autumn

and counter-clockwise, which follows the sequence of the 256- and 260-day calendars;

the counter-clockwise circle of 4-16-64-256