Could the I Ching Be Viewed as Ancient Spiritual Technology?

This piece is inspired by the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination system, but with a technological twist. I’ve always been fascinated by the way its hexagrams organize information and express ideas about change. To me, the I Ching has the feel of an advanced form of spiritual technology.

One detail that especially captures my imagination is that the I Ching contains 64 hexagrams, while there are also 64 possible codons in the genetic code. Is that simply a numerical coincidence, or could the similarity inspire another way of thinking about patterns and information? It’s a question I enjoy exploring, even if the shared number alone doesn’t establish a scientific connection.

For this artwork, I took the diagrams that form the I Ching and reimagined them as part of an advanced computer interface. I wanted to bring an ancient system of symbols into a futuristic visual language, creating something that feels both spiritual and technological.

Sometimes my art begins with an existing concept and asks what it might look like through a modern lens. In this case, the I Ching became an opportunity to explore the relationship between ancient wisdom, divination, patterns, and technology.

Creating this piece also made me wonder about the depth of knowledge and ideas encoded in ancient systems of symbolism. What were the people who developed these diagrams trying to understand and communicate? Questions like that are part of what makes reinterpreting ancient symbols so fascinating to me.