Patterns of Passage is a visual meditation on movement, memory, and the coded language of navigation. At its center, three silhouetted paddles rise like guardians or markers, cutting through a field of meticulously carved and printed indigenous patterns. Each design block echoes the visual language of global wayfinding traditions — motifs that once adorned textiles, tools, and the bodies of those who crossed oceans by starlight and swell. By layering paddle forms over this matrix of geometric rhythm, McCaskill weaves a narrative of physical motion and cultural continuity. The paddles, though still, imply action — the human stroke that turns pattern into progress, memory into momentum. As part of the artist’s ongoing exploration of waypoints and ancestral navigation, this work stands as a tribute to the enduring intelligence embedded in both design and journey.
Additional Artworks
From John McCaskill
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"Ocean of Stars"
Digital Art on Canvas
40 x 30 x 1.5 in
$1,120
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"Island Sail"
Digital Art on Canvas
20 x 16 x 1.5 in
$850
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"Brazil Morning"
woodcut print
25 x 19 in
$950
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"Between Continents"
Woodcut Original Print
24 x 18 in
$1,150
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"Between Oceans"
woodcut print
12 x 12 in
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Sails of the Ancestors: A Tribute to Hokuleʻa
Digital Art on Canvas
36 x 78 x 2 in
$1,824
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"Foundation"
Photography
18 x 24 in
$950
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Sails of the Ancestors: A Tribute to Hokuleʻa
Digital Art on Canvas
36 x 88 x 1.5 in