The spiral appears many times throughout history. Artifacts, carvings and representations of it across various cultures and times.

And it’s a certain film that features it briefly that ties into this thought and is a good place to start. Dark City. Where the inhabitants are contained within a kind of illusion, where they are used as an experiment and kept from knowing what reality is, who they are and where they are from. One of the characters who has a ‘psychotic break’ is seen repeatedly drawing a spiral, to signify the endless entrapment, with no way out.

But it was seeing a few images that got me thinking, and linking things together as I do, having wondered on a few of them already. And it could well be that it’s just seeing patterns where we want to, as they say humans are prone to, but it could also be there actually is a pattern, and one to take notice of.

Pictures: Top left – time lapse of stars, Top right – the labyrinth on the floor of a cathedral, Middle left – The Aztec Calendar, Middle right – Diagram of the 9 circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno, Bottom left – the heliocentric model, Bottom right – An AI generated escape from the Matrix.

Like a repeating cycle you can’t escape, or aren’t meant to even be aware of maybe. But we appear to be, as theorised in my article Simulated, Again and Again. So, what is it? Are they pieces of a puzzle to how we are contained or a possible way out? With markers, ideas and clues being left and inscribed by previous generations for us to work out or add to? I wonder…

(c) K Wicks