John Tunnard, A.R.A., Abstract, 1958, Oil On Gesso-prepared Board

“The Sephiroth are also imagined as ten shells or casings around the innermost core of En Soph, the formless and ineffable centre of all being.

The Cabbalists called meditation on this Nothing-in-Everything, extrapolating from a verse in the Song of Solomon (6, 11), "Going down into the garden of nuts".

Shakespeare refers to this when he has Hamlet say, "O God! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space".

And Joyce in Finnegans Wake:

"Mark Time's Finist Joke.

Putting Allspace in a Notshall".

Image: Sephiroth scroll, Poland, 19th century.

From “Alchemy & Mysticism” by Alexander Roob (2011).

Patricia A. Bender, Geometry 287, (oxidized gelatin silver cliche-verre print with colored pencil), 2020, Unique [Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY. © Patricia A. Bender]

John Tunnard (British, 1900-1971), Construction, 1943. Ink, watercolour and gouache on paper, 13 x 19 1⁄4 in.

Alexander McQueen: "Black" (2004) Photography: Nick Knight

Dissolving in the Dawn Sky - Lara Cobden , 2022.

British , b. 1971 -

Oil and ink on gessoed panel , 45 x 35 cm.

Anna Trochim, “The Sound of the Morning” » oil on canvas, 2020

Miles Cleveland Goodwin (American, 1980) - Huntress (after Courbet) (2011)

Rick Owens A/W 2010