PARADIGM CRACK
Limited edition hoodie crystalizing the current zeitgeist.
First ever piece of clothing designed in conscious participation with real-time planetary alignments and archetypal patterns of history.
Own a piece of the deep now.
World Shaping Wearable Art
Incepted by master astrologers using the HistoryEngine,
hand crafted by a visionary artist.
Integrate This: the logo stands as a post-modern symbol of an empty vessel in an ocean of infinite cosmic creativity.
Within this matrix we invited renowned visionary artist Lucien Dante Lazar to dive into the unconscious waters of our current moment in history reflected in the planetary alignment of Saturn square Uranus (2020–2023). Using the HistoryEngine creative studio specially developed by master astrologers Abeer Desai and Somya Thakker, Lazar had the opportunity to review the profound diachronic patterns of history that have emerged as Saturn-Uranus transits have unfolded over the centuries.
From this place, a brilliant flash of riotous colors was born, cracked down the middle with a definitive dark line. As art reflects life, so too does life reflect art. Celebrate and consecrate this profound transformational moment we are undergoing as the Earth family.
Saturn-Uranus
Our current planetary alignment which gave birth to "Paradigm Crack"
SATURN
The principle of order.
Manifesting in light and shadow as hardship, old age, material reality, tradition, status quo, the past, responsibility, discipline, character, and wisdom.
URANUS
The energy of freedom.
Manifesting in light and shadow as liberation, youthful spirit, innovation, disruption, the future, rebelliousness, unpredictability, eccentricity, and brilliance.
Stitching the Pattern of History
Each time Saturn and Uranus come into alignment, our collective psyche experiences themes ranging from structural collapses to paradigm shifts.
"Paradigm Crack" is an aesthetic symbol of Saturn-Uranus. It's a lens into the world of this planetary combination, helping you connect to the past and feel the future through archetypal resonance.
For this collection, we honed into two historical moments during a Saturn-Uranus alignment: the crash of Wall Street and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On October 29, 1929––what has now come to be known as "Black Tuesday"––the New York Stock Exchange was facing a wave of panic selling. Thousands of investors and speculators feared the market was about to crash and started selling their stocks, which led to the decline of stock prices and eventually a major collapse in the financial market. This event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday is a reflection of the Saturn-Uranus theme of structural collapse. Something which carried the essence of order and authority (Saturn) was disrupted by chaos and trickery (Uranus). The Saturnian financial system was coming face-to-face with the Uranian urge for sudden change.
After standing as a symbol of division for approximately 28 years, on November 9, 1989 people from East and West Germany witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. This event marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
This historical moment in geopolitics symbolizes the Saturn-Uranus theme of a paradigm shift. The literal collapse of the wall (Saturn) welcomed in a new era of freedom and democracy (Uranus). The Uranian impulse for independence broke through the Saturnian rule for authoritarianism.
"History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes."
Lucien Dante Lazar
Visionary artist of
"Paradigm Crack"
Lucien Dante Lazar (b. June 24th, 1994 in Evanston, IL) is an interdisciplinary artist whose praxis is founded in the intersections of art, science, and spirituality. He received his BA from Bard College (2016), his MFA from California College of the Arts (2020), and is currently working on his PhD in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies. His dissertation will concern the pedagogy of spiritual development through the diversity of the arts.
Art, for Lazar, is a deeply introspective and spiritual process. As a result, his work is both intimate and universal, both for the individual human being as well as for humanity as a whole. His paintings, music, sculptures, poetry, prose, as well as his interpersonal creative therapies are opportunities for healing and profound, transformative reflection.
“My ultimate goal as an artist is to discover, through art, the meaning of the human being, and through this creative process, to encounter and cultivate the reality of freedom.” Lazar said. “For me, an artwork may be witnessed as a being born of, and in service to, the development of human consciousness. The more a work of art is imbued with the wide awake consciousness of humanity, the more it is capable of inviting the human being who witnesses it into a sense of one's own universality.”
Lazar utilizes many mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, and a plethora of fiber arts. He also works as a poet, an essayist, and a multi-disciplinary musician. Additionally, Lazar incorporates various therapeutic healing modalities and meditative practices into his work, which he describes under the term spiritual bodywork. Each individual work of art Lazar creates lives within this multi-dimensional creative context.
