Sketch Painted in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Lawren Harris created this painted sketch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, featuring geometric shapes, most notably a pyramid and three circles. The pyramid is an ancient symbol found across cultures, from the Egyptian pyramids as symbols of power and the afterlife to spiritual representations of enlightenment. Harris divides the pyramid into light and shadow, perhaps alluding to duality. Below, three circles, one white, one black, and one blue, evoke a sense of balance and completion, representing a coming together of light and dark, earth and sky. The symbolic use of basic geometric forms like these can be traced back to antiquity. What is fascinating is how they are continually reimagined through the lens of modernity. Though they appear to be so simple, these forms resonate deeply, a visual echo of humanity's enduring search for meaning and order in the cosmos.