Size: 21.5" x 21.5" — 24 carat gold smalti with encaustic Two interlocking spirals pressed into ancient gold. Based on a crop circle formation, this piece carries the geometry of galaxies, shells, and signals we are still learning to read.
Something passed over. Close enough to leave a mark.
Flyby is built from two interlocking spiral forms, each pulling toward its own gold center, set in 24 carat Orsoni smalti against an encaustic ground. The smalti carries over a thousand years of sacred architectural history in its body. The encaustic is one of the oldest paint mediums known. The materials are not decorative choices. They are part of the argument the piece is making.
The source is a crop circle formation. The geometry is Fibonacci. The same ratio that builds a nautilus, a galaxy arm, a storm system. This piece does not illustrate the formation. It continues the conversation the formation started, in gold, at the scale of something you can stand in front of and feel.
