Zedist Joy To Ovum | Original

“This piece is a play on Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”. It is a celebration of the fertility and expanding consciousness of the human race. The three pursuing male figures on the left shown in blues are cool, calm, stoic, and emerging from the depths of purple interstellar space. They are collectively protecting and delivering forth a shared strand of DNA shown in oranges and earthtones that span their chests into the center of the piece containing the ovum. The three attractive female figures shown in reds and magentas on the right are warm, nubile, and expressive. They are grounded in Earth’s bounty and are surrounded with the greens of the planet’s primary life-support system, chlorophyll, representing the sun’s stored plant energy. The central imagery is composed of the ovum in various states of life’s creative process. From the first penetration of the male sperm through the ovum’s cell wall, to the unraveling of the winning sperm into DNA, to the explosion of life via genetic replication of atoms, molecules, cells, and the resulting waves of energy that are rippled out into the cosmos during the creation of a human soul or consciousness. It is a diffusion between the animal and spiritual worlds, from the wriggling worm-like sperms desperately racing to spark the creation of a life and the complexity of that monumental achievement, to the resulting shock wave thereafter into the deeper mystery of a microcosmic universe created when life begins. Joy to Ovum is an acknowledgement to the powerful instincts of male/female attraction. It captures the dances and postures we assume in the hopes of attracting a compatible mate to engage in a joyful sowing of our genetic seeds and the cosmic dance at the moment of conception when stellar dust becomes aware of itself. This panel is the centerpiece of a 24-foot triptych celebrating the ultimate creative act of life erupting inside the uterus and out of the womb. A metaphor for the birth of anything: an idea, a species, a star. How the spark of life is initiated and flawlessly combusts into something else grander than itself is one of the great mysteries we constantly face. In this panel, the sperm cell is being delivered to the ovum, where it penetrates the cell wall and starts to unravel into a strand of DNA. The egg then splits, replicates, and sends a molecular shockwave upon the energetic spectrum of life saying, “I am here”. There is a celebration on an atomic level with important chain reactions and electrical currents put in motion. Fertilizing the ovum, the joy of joys, the Joy to Ovum. Sperm giving up their ghosts to manifest consciousness. Do you think they have any idea of what is to come?” 24ft x 4 ft Acrylic Triptych on Wood Panels