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The Fourth Space Meditation Centre opens in March.
Two sessions will be given a week.



Fourth Space Meditation Centre explores the idea that our spiritual self is in a fourth spatial dimension.
By which consciousness is the communication to the self in the third spatial dimension from the fourth spatial dimension.
The meditation is orientated to bring ourselves to greater unity and cohesion with ourselves in this higher dimension.

Egothávma- The Four Stances of being.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at NICC Vitrine:
The Agprognostic Temple. Zebedee Armstrong, Brussels


illustrations from the Egothávma



The Egothávma presents four stances of being, proposing a new ontological model of the universe. Free from God, spiritualism, and materialism.

Written and illustrated by Dome Wood


To view PDF and to find out how to purchase the NFT edition, go to:
https://egothavma-manifest.carrd.co/

In the studio: paintings and sculptures 2021-2023
"Internal Dialogue" oil and acrylic on canvas, 100x70cm, 2023 "The inside turned out - New Dawn" acrylic on canvas, 140x120cm, 2022 "Archaic Consciousness Return" canvas, wood, acrylic medium, 210x80x60cm, 2022 "Archaic Consciousness Return" Portrait detail "The I Within the Duality of Being" canvas, wood, acrylic medium, 220x110x50cm, 2022 "The I Within the Duality of Being" portrait detail "In the Weight of the World - In the Lightness of Light" Oil on Canvas, 210x150cm, 2021 "Integral Consciousness" canvas, wood, oil paint, 60x40x25cm, 2022 "Tomb Painting - 1" dyed canvas and wood, 70x50cm, 2022 "Tomb Painting - 2" dyed canvas and wood, 70x50cm, 2022 "Existence to Non-Existence, study.2" Oil on canvas, 70x50cm, 2021 "Existence to Non-Existence, study.1" Oil on canvas, 70x50cm, 2021 "Existence to Non-Existence, study.3" Oil on canvas, 70x50cm, 2021 "The base of Potential equals the Height of the Unknown, study.1" Oil on canvas, 70x50cm, 2021 "The Seed of Life" wrapped canvas, wood, 35x15x15cm.2021 "Fear Not - The Light of Death is Within you" wrapped canvas, wood, lights,, 75x25x25cm, 2021 “Being Within and Without Space” oil on canvas, 140x115cm, 2021. The Sublime Creation” oil on canvas, 140x115cm, 2021. Installation View: Conscious Becoming at gallery Tatjana Pieters The Base of Potential Determines the Peak of the Unknown” oil on canvas, 140x115cm, 2021.
A shift in my painting practice occurred with these works from 2021, which came out of a reflection on the idea that our consciousness moves in a four-dimensional space. I wanted to create paintings that included the relationship of a dimension that one moves through but cannot see. A space that is hidden from the two-dimensional “objectness” of painting.

This became manifest in the weave, and gave a basis for the movement of painting in four-dimensional space.
The paintings have, in this way, emerged from my sculptural practice, where I have been wrapping the wooden structures with canvas strips to express a mummification of materiality. Done in order to evoke the transcendence of materiality through art.

The weaving of strips of canvas as a painting surface creates a continual movement from the visible to the invisible and back. It become an action that I move through without seeing — emulating the idea of spirit as a movement in the fourth spatial dimension, suspending aesthetical judgement until the emergence of a pictorial reference. 
The weave, however, is not arbitrary but conducts itself as a specific structure to the thoughts and intention that the painting is expressing.

The painting "In the Weight of the World, to the Lightness of Light" is an example of this. In 2021, ca. 90 sqm of canvas were woven into a ca. 3 sqm surface. Leaving the 87 sqm as a "hidden" dimension, into which the painting moves in and out. The weave expresses the idea of the "unknown" and the "known," transcending their duality to the ability-to-know, which unites them equally as one. This is a movement of "becoming-lightness" from the world.

Therefore, what becomes different to the earlier works, where the theory-thinking is applied and depicted through painting, is that with these works, the theory-thinking becomes completely translated into the language of painting. A language that even in representation remains, in principle, abstract. As such, one could say there is an indigenous element to the paintings, as they transform my ontological narratives into codes of colour, shape, and movement.



Dome Wood

The Agprognostic Temple, Brussels


Temple Architectural view, 2020 Temple Architectural view, 2020 Temple Architectural view, 2020 Temple Architectural view, 2020 Temple Architectural view, 2020 Scripted Truths, 2020 : with Ricardo Brey, Fia Cielen, Benjamin Husson, Felix Kindermann, Philippe Koeune, Shana Moulton, Isabel Tesfazghi, Lou Touchard, Filip Vervaet Nicolas Provost, The Warning, 2020 “Mirrored Infinities” with Serene Blumenthal, James Lee Byars, Laurie Charles, Eric Croes, Sanam Khatibi, Joris Van de Moortel, Julien Saudubray, Oraura, Antoine Waterkeyn and McCloud Zicmuse “Mirrored Infinities” with Serene Blumenthal, James Lee Byars, Laurie Charles, Eric Croes, Sanam Khatibi, Joris Van de Moortel, Julien Saudubray, Oraura, Antoine Waterkeyn and McCloud Zicmuse “Mirrored Infinities” with Serene Blumenthal, James Lee Byars, Laurie Charles, Eric Croes, Sanam Khatibi, Joris Van de Moortel, Julien Saudubray, Oraura, Antoine Waterkeyn and McCloud Zicmuse Léonard Pongo “ Primordial Earth - The Beginnings” Léonard Pongo “ Primordial Earth - The Beginnings”

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Photos: Fabrice Schneider
 
The Agprognostic Temple co-founded with art critic / curator Sam Steverlynck.
It is a project that goes beyond my own art work in the sense of its curatorial framework, while still being connected to it through its philosophy architecture and scenography. 

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4 exhibitions have followed in Chapters:

Chapter 1:
“Scripted Truths” with  Ricardo Brey, Fia Cielen, Benjamin Husson, Felix Kindermann, Philippe Koeune, Shana Moulton, Isabel Tesfazghi, Lou Touchard, Filip Vervaet

Chapter 2:
Nicolas Provost “The Warning”


Chapter3:
“Mirrored Infinities” with Serene Blumenthal, James Lee Byars, Laurie Charles, Eric Croes, Sanam Khatibi, Joris Van de Moortel, Julien Saudubray, Oraura, Antoine Waterkeyn and McCloud Zicmuse

Chapter 4:
Léonard Pongo “ Primordial Earth - The Beginnings”



More details on our website:
www.agprognostictemple.com

The Campaign :
Artificial Meditation Centre for Autonomous Power

Rectangle, Brussels Gallery Weekend - Vanderborght Buildin 


1) “The construction of the subject to object from 0 to 4 dimensional space.” Oil on Canvas, 80x120cm,2019 2.) “Consciousness in connection with itself as other becomes localised in 3 dimensions.” Oil on Canvas, 80x120cm,2019 3.) “The mind hyper-cubed to 4 dimensional space becomes non-local to 3dimensional space” Oil on Canvas, 80x120cm,2019 4,) “Artificial Meditation Centre for Autonomous Power: The Campaign.” Oil on Canvas, 80x120cm,2019 Installation view, "The Campaign", 4 Paintings blown up to Billboards (244x366cm), as part of the collaboration with Rectangle, for the occasion of the exhibition: Brussels Gallery Weekend- Vanderborght building, Brussels Installation view, "The Campaign", 4 Paintings blown up to Billboards (244x366cm), as part of the collaboration with Rectangle, for the occasion of the exhibition: Brussels Gallery Weekend- Vanderborght building, Brussels Installation view, "The Campaign", 4 Paintings blown up to Billboards (244x366cm), as part of the collaboration with Rectangle, for the occasion of the exhibition: Brussels Gallery Weekend- Vanderborght building, Brussels Brochure published by Rectangle for 'The Campaign' The Campaign Extended. At Rectangle(Extended) Gallery Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, 2019. "The perception of the mind from the 4th spatial dimension to the 3rd". Oil on Canvas, 96x71cm, 2019



Artificial Meditation Centre for Autonomous Power. The Campaign.



Foreword by Damien Desamory:

I guess if Dome Wood had to start somewhere to explain what reality is, he would begin by discussing dimensions. It sounds obvious that we live in a three-dimensional space. Length, height and width at first glance certainly don’t warrant a closer inspection.

But if you start to scratch at it you’ll find that it gets interesting. First of all, our materiality exists only in the three dimensions. Although we can understand mono or bi-dimensional reality, we can’t actually interact with it. We can conceptualise what a line is, a one dimensional thing, or a plane, a two-dimensional thing, but as soon as we try to grasp at it, we have to trace it and make it three dimensional.

Now let’s take this slightly further, see if it sticks.

In order to contemplate an overview of one dimension, you must be functioning one dimension higher.

If you were existing in one dimension as on a line, while being able to move along said line in one dimension, you would only be able to perceive things in zero dimension ( a point on the line ).

If you were existing in two dimensions – as on a plane – while being able to move in those dimensions, you would only be able to map your trajectories in one dimension, along a line. However, because you can move in two dimensions, there could form the ability to know that what you perceive is also in two dimensions. To be able to perceive two dimensions, you would have to elevate to three dimensions.

By logical progression – moving to three dimensions – a two-dimensional plane can be perceived but not a three-dimensional object.

It therefore stands to reason that there is something on a higher dimension that is perceiving the three-dimensional reality we inhabit for us. This could have many names, Dome calls it Mind.

Mind is our immaterial essence that guides and makes sense of the universe for our three-dimensional “meat suit”.

The human brain is the first thing that has been able to conceptualise this higher dimension. It has invented religions, sciences and taxonomies in order to gain insights on its surroundings and its relationship to this posited superior dimension.









Dome’s model of everything doesn’t only go up to the dimension superior to the one we interact with. It also goes back down. All the way to what is underneath the first dimension, nothingness. This he calls the Void.

Before there was something, there was nothing. Simple enough, right?

However, since everything emanated out of this nothing, it must have been there, present in the form of a potential. Everything that will, would, could, shall ever exist in all the dimensions, is already present in this Void as a potentiality.

This guiding potential, this Force that bares the promise of everything, that materialises reality, that pushes us ever further in our present, it is inside of you and you can harness it.

By getting in touch with it, you can feel your way to the next dimension, gently approach Mind residing out of touch. Start to conceptualise the fact that you really reside on a higher plane and that all the good and the bad that happens to you in your three-dimensional reality doesn’t define you. You are higher and independent of your successes and failures. This helps you relativize them and keeps you centred in your interactions with life and other human beings.

Become a better human being. Become the one whom we can rely on in the toughest moments. Become detachment and empathy. Find a harmony with destiny. Trust your Autonomous Power and let It lead you towards your ever forming present.

Be part of the Artificial Meditation Centre for Autonomous Power.


This is what Dome Wood would say.