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The geometric eagle in this image isn’t just a digital construct from a moment of instant inspiration, but a shape with a longer history. I would draw a simpler version of it by hand as a child—often on graph paper, in one continuous line, designed to be carved from a single piece of plywood, and this is also evident in this image. That tactile approach to form has stayed with me. It’s visible in my heraldic and logo works, where shapes are designed to be physically cut, assembled, and honored.
This eagle is the genesis of all my works in the category visual identity, with logos, original symbolic shapes, and heraldry inspired works. One idea with this geometric representation was to create a design that could be cut into one piece, and easily used as a multifunctional modular scalable element in logos, beveled compositions, 3d and perspective graphics. I made this geometric design in two cropped versions, one rectangular and one circular, because I had several physical 3d-realizations in my mind.
The reason the wings have a radiating shape was to integrate the symbol with the sun and create a “solar eagle” as a sculpture. I never realized this as a physical sculpture, but over the years, these radiating features, the “solar wings” of this vector drawing of my geometric eagle, evolved into a deeper part of my identity, visualized in my most sacred symbol, my Solar Lion. Thus, this double headed eagle is also the conceptual heart of my Solar Lion.
