Silverlens opens an exhibition of works by Emily Cheng

Emily Cheng's painting career has been a continuous search for visual methods that render the Sacred visually graspable. Spiritual art's best-known method is probably sacred geometry, an ancient practice that today continues to strongly influence the art and architecture of the Islamic and Christian world. Geometry is a language of ideal forms known to all cultures, and to a varying extent, a tool used universally. However, even though the rational basis of geometry allows it to make universal claims, these are not "total" claims. Geometry is only one of the many frameworks through which the mystery of the cosmos manifests. How otherwise might the design of the Sacred be revealed is a constant query behind Emily Cheng's artistic pursuit. In her paintings, one finds both geomancy and geometry, DNA spirals and Daoist talisman, electromagnetic grids and qi-energy network. For Cheng, knowledge ancient and modern are equivalent tools for creating a grammar and an artistic language showing h