The Compass Mural at Gravity Place
The Gravity Place Mural is painted on the Flats Industrial Railroad building, showing the Compass and 1833 Map orientation on this innermost point where we now stand. A condensed version of the Centerpiece Mural, the mural at Gravity Place creates awareness of the road network convergence on Gravity Place now visible from all surviving streets. Looking west from Gravity Place, the sunrise midpoint on Columbus Road, the unified field is realized allowing heaven and earth to meet.
Manifest Destiny
America is a nation of explorers, forging a democratic synthesis in the early 19th century, people arrived here from other parts of the world to find Cleveland Centre streets named after migrating nationalities, Russia, China, German, British, French, bisecting streets named for the seasons. A radial symbol of concentration, penetrating barriers of language as unity with human nature and the infinite were linked. The framework creates a parallel to the human spirit inseparably rooted in the physical environment. With the inner compass oriented we grasp an exploration intended for all humanity participating directly in the forming of the world and our being in it.
“The higher realms are within”
Prepping the Flats Industrial Railroad building in advance of painting the Compass Mural
“You cannot correctly call any human action either free or creative if the individual does not participate directly in the evolution of his or her own meaning. Life is sensing “feeling” and determined aesthetically in that we could perceive it…though sensing doesn’t just happen- we make it happen. We participate directly in the forming of that envelope of the world and our being in it, when perception becomes the still-point in the movement of activity.
The difference in our understanding lies not in the nature of things, but how we come to grasp them, requiring our immediate presence that in effect puts undivided attention at the root of our understanding. Grounded in the presence of art the individual is the active principle, determined by a centered quality in our awareness. Everyone has such a subtle mind, and everyone traverses these experiences. But it takes special conditions to develop awareness of them, to experience them with clarity. Expanded perception, what is seen in a moment…is a change in the arrangement and relationship of elements…to the dimensions of space time.”
~ Dr. Christian Wertenbaker
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