‘Chariot Of Ascension’

10"x 20", Acrylic on canvas. 2024

The “Merkabah” which literally means "a thing that is ridden” or “chariot” has similar roots in multiple languages, such as Arabic (rakaba), meaning “to ride.”
In “Merkabah mysticism”, (which is an early form of Jewish mysticism (100 BC–1000 AD), it is the spiritual chariot or throne of God that mystics envision or ascend to during meditative practices. It is often associated with ascension through various levels of heavens to approach the divine and seems to have connections with other mystical traditions that involve spiritual vehicles or ascension, such as the Hindu vimana, the Platonic chariot in the Phaedrus, and esoteric interpretations of sacred geometry to connect the spirit and body to higher realms. Ancient Jewish texts reveal that the word is also Hebrew for "chariot". In the Old Testament, the word Merkabah is found a total of 44 times.

In this piece I placed a double helix traveling up the spine because DNA is essentially the origin of knowledge on Earth.. Akashic Records?? One gram of DNA can store up to 215 petabytes of data. (1 petabyte= 1 million gigabytes).