Wheel of Heaven
BABCINEȚCHI Vladlen, Iași, Romania
The Wheel of Heaven can be read as an image of cosmic order: everything moves around an invisible center, and meaning (heaven) is not "on the edge", but in alignment with that center.
At the top, the circular center is relatively controlled, calculated, while the edge retains an irregular, natural appearance, like a stone "shell". From this opposition the message is born: heaven (the ideal) is form and order, our world (concrete experience) is matter and imperfection, the path between them is a discipline of the interior: from chaos to the center.
The base has a grid of square cells, like an architectural module. The square refers to: earthly, human, measurable, reason and structure.
Placing the circle (heavenly, eternal) over the square (terrestrial, built) creates a "heaven–earth" composition: circle = spirit / sky / infinity, square = matter / city / finitude of life.
Thus, the Wheel of Heaven relates the circle - symbol of the absolute and eternity - with the square grid of the built world, suggesting the encounter between the heavenly and the earthly. From the tension between the raw stone and the polished center, the idea of a search is born: the path from the imperfect exterior to a center of order and fulfillment.
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