In my head I was imagining all sorts of clever arrangements once the I Ching paintings are complete; infinity loops, reflections, mirrors and the like, but then James commented "When you complete the trigrams, they will make a striking Ba Gua."
It makes complete sense for the form of the whole to be consistent with (and contain) the form of its parts. Anything else would be sophistry and deliberate cleverness!
Still very incomplete at this stage (Sun half done, missing Ken) but I think this actually adds meaning, clarity and will really help my endeavor to make this self-explanatory.
There has been a lot of discovery in this process!
Below are a couple of other possibilities:
Next time around (!) I would like K'un/brightness at 12 o'clock/north, Ch'ien/darkness at six/south (a vertical polarity of graduated blends) with Li/red and K'an/blue at three/east and nine/west (a horizontal polarity of high contrasts) - the remaining four modulate between these at the 45 degree angles. This would be the layout for each painting as well as the overall form.
i.e. rotate each painting 22.5 degrees within its frame. However although this would orient the colors to the frame, the boundaries would then look like a sinking ship!!
Below is a (ghastly quality) first look at a mirror frame!! Lawks!!
