12:12 Emerald Portal

BURNING MAN 2006

The Emerald Portal was inspired by Richard Leviton’s book “The Emerald Modem: A User’s Guide to the Earth’s Interactive Energy Body”. In it he describes a cube that relates to both a person’s and the Earth’s energy bodies:
The Cube of Space is a cosmic jewel: a six sided, double terminated lovely green Emerald bigger than the entire planet and placed around it as a kind of master energy field.
The Emerald is also the Heart within the Heart, midway between the outer and inner heart chakras in the human. It is the place where the “Ultimate Divine” resides in each human.. It is pure consciousness beyond space and time, transcending the Mind. Picture a double-terminated, two-inch-long crystal
positioned vertically, at the right side of the sternum and you give yourself
access to this arcane Heart.
The Cube of Space is the totality of the earth’s geomantic body; we carry it
within us as the Emerald, and this same Emerald or Cube of Space is the
structure of reality”
Starting with a small paper model of a cube, I created the Emerald Portal through a series of cuts and taping the pieces. Once the form was created with flat surfaces, it was also realized as the outline form of the edges, providing a clearer understanding of the geometry it encompasses. Within the cube pointed corner up, truncated at its lower three vertices, is a cuboctahedron, incorporating the relationship of the 90 degree three dimensional coordinate system of cubes with the 60 degree three dimensional coordinate of tetrahedrons and octahedrons.
Both versions were built for 2006 as 8 foot cubes, one out of plywood and the other out of square steel tubing, and returned in 2008. Following in line with the Diamond Portal’s placement at 11:11, they were located at 12:12 on the Burning Man clock plan. The intent of these sculptures is to catalyze a personal connection to the Emerald within the participant’s heart and to facilitate a connection between participants and the Earth and Galaxy’s energy bodies.