Ain Soph / Seraphic Snowy Owl by Karl Cossio

acrylic gouache on canvas

custom pine frame

16x20”

Ain Soph

Limitless, endless light, the state of the cosmos before it created itself. Ineffable and unknowable, yet from which all existence comes. The tree of life, and all of the spheres within, emanate out from the nameless, formless infinite.

Serpahic Snowy Owl

Bubo scandiacus

This nomadic, unpredictable owl rarely breeds or hunts in the same location from year to year, making it difficult to study and survey.The snowy owl here is represented as a seraph, a celestial being that plays in important role in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic theology and mysticism.