SOLAR LOGOS, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 2026

APRIL 9 – APRIL 30, 2026
EVERARD READ CAPE TOWN.

‘The intention within the making of Solar Logos is to embed, to channel, and therefore to create charged images (imagos).

Art is to me a lived experience in which I ask myself how shape, form and colour can link us to the gods.
Before language, how does thought sound? What shades and tones does experience wear?
What is the visual code to feeling? Does a circle protect?

I lean into a preference for intuitive process.
It must be a knowing, rather then a belief concept.
An embodied practice in slow, steady, precious time.

Solar Logos does not push back on the demands of modern world,
rather it pulls toward a mythopoetic connection to the cosmos.

My inquiry is the pull. The yearning for that numinous sun.
And In eluding to an invisible world that flows beneath the visible,
I commit myself to making images that point beyond themselves.

I open to; an allowing-ness for the possibility of dialogue with my own mystery.
A within-ness.
A tendency towards self reflection, a desire for meaning through direct encounter.
A journey through symbols at the depth of the human psyche
which have operated in and through man from the earliest times.

Creating Objets d’art as a way to attend to the soul.
In a world that is animate, all is breathing with life.
To find the symbolic within the mundane, is to awaken in dreamtime.
Where the interior and exterior landscape are in constant communication.
Can imago’s become a bridge? A passage to move between one state and the other.

Can form and texture conduit innate memories of a personal spirituality.
Can mark-making walk us though a psychological alchemical experience,
from the prima materia, through the wheel of fire, a breaking apart,
a death, to the inner light of knowing.

A reflection on humanities need for transcendence, a calling to participate in divinity,
as I too suffer the souls distress and yet it leads me.’ – Faith XLVII