Frederick Hart • Illuminata III

Frederick Hart – Illuminata III, the culmination of the Illuminata Trilogy, the destination of our lifelong pilgrimage of spiritual enlightenment is revealed. With Illuminata III, we come to realize that the sacred light which illumines our journey culminates ultimately in love.

Illuminata III builds upon the profound experience of Illuminata I and II and continues the pilgrimage. In Illuminata I we encounter a beauty so mesmerizing that it awakened us to the desire and need for spiritual enlightenment. We were indeed transformed by the power of spiritual beauty. And in turn, Illuminata II poetically visualized Hart’s belief that this spiritual enlightenment did not occur in just a singular moment, but was a gradual, evolutionary, lifelong pilgrimage.

Of all the images of love, one of the most eternal is the love of a man and a woman. In
Illuminata III Hart has chosen this spiritual and sensual image to show us the
vulnerability, fragility, and transforming strength of love.

At the heart of this flame-like work, flickering with purifying light, hover two soft, vaporous images And it is when these two individual souls come together in a union
of the spirit, that we witness the ultimate triumph of spiritual beauty.

Through the sculpture’s mystical appearance and disappearance of the figures into light,
Frederick Hart reveals the allegorical essence of flluminata III. Any idea or person we
encounter in our life’s journey slowly and mysteriously reveals their truths and in so doing transforms us by their love.