THROUGHOUT MY TWENTY YEARS OF TRAVELLING IN FOUR DIFFERENT
CONTINENTS, I HAVE BECOME A NATURAL STUDENT OF SYMBOLISM.
WHAT FASCINATES ME MOST WHILE DISCOVERING NEW CULTURES IS
SIMILARITIES OF THE HUMAN INSTINCT, WITNESSING EACH TIME THAT
WHAT UNITES US ALL, IS THE SIMPLE BEAUTY OF JUST BEING HUMAN.
AS MUCH AS WE EXPRESS OURSELVES DIFFERENTLY AROUND THE
WORLD THROUGH RITUALS, CEREMONIES AND ARTS, AT THE CORE WE
SHARE THE SAME NATURE. WE ARE ALL CONNECTED TO ONE ANOTHER
AND TO THE UNIVERSE. WE ARE HUMAN. ONE PARTICULAR SYMBOL
APPEARED ON MY ROAD EACH TIME I TRAVELLED AND CAUGHT MY
HEART. DEEPLY. A SYMBOL THAT I CAME ACROSS, ON THE HIGHLANDS
OF THE HIMALAYA, THE PLAINS OF AFRICA, ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF
ANATOLIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST. INSTINCTIVELY I STARTED
COLLECTING ARTIFACTS ADORNED WITH THIS SYMBOL THAT GREW ON
ME MORE AND MORE WITH TIME. DIFFERENT ERAS, DIFFERENT
GEOGRAPHIES, ALTITUDES AND CONTINENTS, AND YET THE VERY SAME
SIMPLE DRAWING. A CIRCLED DOT. THIS UNIVERSAL SYMBOL,
TALISMAN, IS SO OLD THAT THERE IS NOT ONE EXPLICATION TO ITS
MEANING AND CARRY MANY INTERPRETATIONS IT’S SAID TO
REPRESENT THE SUN, THE PROTECTIVE EYE, THE PERPETUAL
MOVEMENT OF LIFE AND ONE SINGLE MOMENT. CONSCIOUSNESS, THE
CIRCLE REPRESENTING THE EXPANSION OF OUR SOUL WITH THE DOT
IN THE MIDDLE CONNOTATING THE SOURCE. AT FIRST, I STARTED
CARRYING THE SYMBOL AS A TATTOO ON MY LEFT ARM, THEN STARTED
USING IT IN MY EARLIER DESIGNS. THROUGH THE YEARS WITH MY
FAITH GROWING MORE DEEPLY WITH ITS STRENGTH AND PROTECTION,
IT’S CRAFTED VERSION, REPRESENTING FOUR CORNERS OF THE
WORLD, HAS BECOME THE LOGO OF TOHUM AND MY PERSONAL
INTERPRETATION OF WHAT IT MEANS “TO BE HUMAN”. NO MATTER
WHERE WE ARE IN THE WORLD, WE ALL DREAM, WE ALL LOVE, WE ALL
HOPE. THE WISH OF BEING PROTECTED, ACCOMPANIED AND
SUPPORTED BELONGS TO ALL OF US. TOHUM’S “REBIRTH” TALISMAN
INVITES US TO AN INTERNAL PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE
CONTINUOUS REBIRTH OF OUR BEING AND THE CONTINUOUS GROWTH
OF OUR SOUL. MY WISH, IS TO SHARE THE SENSE OF SERENITY AND
PEACE I FEEL CARRYING THIS ANCIENT AND POWERFUL SYMBOL WITH
YOU ALL. WITH LOVE,
VERDA
