Using simple geometric forms and limiting my tools to just pen and paper, this drawing describes the origin and structure of the universe. This is a speculative and intuitive cosmogonic story from my perspective, requiring complete immersion and inducing a meditative state.

Various philosophical, religious and scientific ideas have informed this work. I am inspired by a commonly occurring theme in cosmogony: that the act of creation comes from the separation of light and dark, the pulling apart of two opposites.

This drawing is a cosmogonic map and a cosmogonic microcosm – a miniature of the universe and its creation. This is reflected in the method used to create the drawing, beginning with a circle of circles: a symbolic and literal ‘first cause’, that is the point from which the rest of the drawing stems and returns to. Concentric circles, like ripples, move outwards and grow larger. Each ring is compelled by the previous; what better symbol to illustrate the spirit or the mover of all things?

In this drawing, I have explored ideas of being and alteration; the circles are the cause or the origin and the rest of the drawing is the resulting difference, each layer of patterns impacting the next in a system of cause and effect. The idea of the expanding universe has also affected how I am thinking about my drawing; it has the potential to continue expanding indefinitely – it is unbound.