Enneagram iv

Mounted pin-brooch, 2007 aterials: 20ct gold, engraved black slate, rainbow moonstone, 9ct white gold pin

This is a variant form of previous pins I have made with this theme and title.

Like Weenix’s snail, with his portable geometry, here is another creature – the frog – seemingly aware of mathematical mystery, and one I have always credited with such an understanding; and no, I do not truly know why.

dia eter: 27mm ount: mixed media Signed and dated artist’s no: 408.MP-B.07 hidden alche y: 209

The enneagram is an ancient geometrical cipher, perhaps Sufi in origin, linking number with personality-types, and was perhaps first used in the West as a spiritual teaching guide by the well-known mystic, G I Gurdjieff (1866-1949).