Elemental Sigils

An art installation, new sculptural works and experience design by Melissa Gilbert (ØFFËRÎNGS | UnitePlayPerform)

Elemental Sigils is a ceremonial installation that invites you to walk the ancient geometry of the circle. Across all cultures, ancient and modern, humans have mapped sacred sites both natural and built through circumambulation, moving in harmony with the elements to align body, land, and spirit. Each sigil becomes a compass point of renewal, a living symbol of our interconnection with Earth.

The Elemental Compass

As you journey through the installation, you’ll find interactive prompts at each direction of the compass, designed to unlock the elemental ways of knowing, thinking, feeling, and doing.

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The Regenerative Art Process

Forged from regenerative closed-loop plastics, natural weaving materials, First Nations weaving practises and upcycled outdoor ropes and hardware, the Elemental Sigils stand as sculptural totems of ritual, regeneration and repair. Each piece is a living sigil, moulded, laser-cut, woven and bound to embody the four directions, colour theory, elemental correspondences and wisdom traditions embedded within this modern medicine wheel.

Emerging from the practice of sigil craft, these artworks form a modern ceremonial architecture, a regenerative sanctuary where space, sense, movement, form, language, and energy converge through UnitePlayPerform Methodology.

In Elemental Sigils, art becomes storytelling, and storytelling becomes ritual, an invitation to remember the living architecture of being in right relationship.

Melissa Gilbert

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