The circular composition, besides being unique to anything else I own ATM, is potent and imparts a spiritually strong vibe that is especially appreciated now, at the dawn of a new, and what I anticipate is likely to be, tumultuous, year ahead.
Pretty sure that’s exactly what they were going for.
I was just dialing back the portent and pretension in that post as you were quoting it.
Circles do have significant subliminal connotation though-
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The circle is the most primordial of geometric shapes. Among the wide range of organic patterns in nature, only rarely do we see triangles or rectangles. They are the hallmark of human-made things. Circles, however, have dominated our experience of nature for millennia. We see its shape in the sun that provides light and warmth, in the mysteriously peaceful glow of the moon, and in the journey of all heavenly bodies across the sky. The circle gave us the wheel, which empowered us to travel longer and further, ultimately culminating in the realization that the entire world, and perhaps the universe itself, are circular. Even our visual experience of the environment bears the kinship shape of the ellipse, as determined by the contours of our eye’s field of view. We would not see the world at all, nor have that proverbial opportunity to glimpse into the human soul, if not for the perfectly round iris and pupil of the human eye.
For all these reasons, circles are embedded in our minds as a fundamental experience and archetypic symbol. It represents unity, wholeness, completion, fullness, connectedness, and perfection, which is why we often associate it with the cosmos, spiritual energy, and a God with no beginning or end. It is the infinite and the eternal, as well as the sign of movement, mobility, repetition, cycles, and revolution. Because the circle encloses what is inside, it conveys the feeling of boundary, focus, centering, embodiment, and containment. In various religions throughout history, the circle symbolized the nurturing womb, sacred space, and the human psyche, as evident in the circular mandalas of Buddhism and Hinduism....- from Photographic Psychology by John Suler
And this is one of the few examples I've seen in this hobby, where that element is so overtly dominant.
