From Wikipedia on The Vitruvian Man: “This image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance and provides the perfect example of Leonardo’s keen interest in proportion. In addition, this picture represents a cornerstone of Leonardo’s attempts to relate man to nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica online states, “Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo (cosmography of the microcosm). He believed the workings of the human body to be an analogy for the workings of the universe.” It is also believed by some that Leonardo symbolized the material existence by the square and spiritual existence by the circle. Thus he attempted to depict the correlation between these two aspects of human existence.” (italics and bolding ours)
TSS:
If such analyses of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man are accurate, namely that in a single picture Da Vinci was communicating a reconciliation of art~science, man~nature, macrocosm~microcosm, circle~square, material~spiritual, looking for blends, relations, symbols and correlations between such pairs of aspects, then it is also clear that Da Vinci had a strong squiggle sense. We can symbolize this possibility by doing the squiggle on the Vitruvian Man” as shown in this post’s associated picture. One of the messages we wish to emphasize as often as we can is that an awakened squiggle sense enhances a person’s ability to invent, to discover~create, for it allows one to avoid “fixed point” thinking or “dwelling” as it is often referred to in Buddhist literature.
