SPIRALS
I copied these petroglyph designs from the famous kerbstones at Newgrange, in the Boyne Valley in Ireland. The spiral form has been used for thousands of years, in many sacred sites, in many cultures, and although we don't know exactly how to translate their meaning into modern English, most students of ancient symbols see them as some sort of representation of the passage of time. Because they do not make a closed circle, they seem to describe an endless motion, of repeating cycles, of eternal reincarnation, of cyclical progress through time. At least that is what I take them to mean, and I have decorated many stones with spirals. The image reminds me that our short span of years is but a brief arc in the flowing current of life, that surges within us and without us.