Seattle Ley Line Project
Artist
The Geo Group,
MediumPhotograph, crystals, wood, brass, plastic
Dimensions72 x 72 x 6 in. (182.9 x 182.9 x 15.2 cm)
ClassificationsMixed Media
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
Ley lines are electromagnetic lines of Earth energy. They travel in straight lines over the surface of the Earth. Power centers are located where the ley line begins. Underground water is always present at a ley line power center. Most ancient monuments and cathedrals are located over such power centers. The Geo Group used a sacred design system they believed had been used by ancient cultures all over the world. This sacred design system includes the use of cosmology, symbolism, landscape design, geomancy, proportion, metrology and astronomy.
The Geo Group is a group of artists, designers and other interested people dedicated to creating environmental art for the purposes of world peace and planetary healing. Their ley line project was a contemporary expression of spiritual or mystical concepts in art, long a tradition in the Pacific Northwest art. Many local artists, such as Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Guy Anderson, Paul Horiuchi, George Tsutakawa and Imogen Cunningham included spiritual concepts in their works.
The spectacular and unique natural environment of the area has long influenced artists and residents of the Puget Sound region, beginning with the American Indian inhabitants centuries ago and continuing to the present. The Geo Group is charting and documenting what many before them instinctively understood. The easiest way to find ley lines and power centers is by dowsing, a technique for using the body's potential to receive and feel energy. By practice, a dowser learns to feel the presence of underground water and ley lines. Just as a radio tunes into electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere and converts the waves into music, a dowser uses a tool such as a dowsing rod or a pendulum to act like a radio dial to indicate where a ley line is located.
Location: Floor 03, near escalator to Columbia Tower
The Geo Group is a group of artists, designers and other interested people dedicated to creating environmental art for the purposes of world peace and planetary healing. Their ley line project was a contemporary expression of spiritual or mystical concepts in art, long a tradition in the Pacific Northwest art. Many local artists, such as Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Guy Anderson, Paul Horiuchi, George Tsutakawa and Imogen Cunningham included spiritual concepts in their works.
The spectacular and unique natural environment of the area has long influenced artists and residents of the Puget Sound region, beginning with the American Indian inhabitants centuries ago and continuing to the present. The Geo Group is charting and documenting what many before them instinctively understood. The easiest way to find ley lines and power centers is by dowsing, a technique for using the body's potential to receive and feel energy. By practice, a dowser learns to feel the presence of underground water and ley lines. Just as a radio tunes into electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere and converts the waves into music, a dowser uses a tool such as a dowsing rod or a pendulum to act like a radio dial to indicate where a ley line is located.
Location: Floor 03, near escalator to Columbia Tower
