Skip to profile content

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.

From John McCaskill

  1. "Ocean of Stars" by John McCaskill, Image 1.

    "Ocean of Stars"

    Digital Art on Canvas

    40 x 30 x 1.5 in

    $1,120

  2. "Island Sail" by John McCaskill, Image 1.

    "Island Sail"

    Digital Art on Canvas

    20 x 16 x 1.5 in

    $850

  3. "Brazil Morning" by John McCaskill, Image 1.

    "Brazil Morning"

    woodcut print

    25 x 19 in

    $950

  4. "Between Continents" by John McCaskill, Image 1.

    "Between Continents"

    Woodcut Original Print

    24 x 18 in

    $1,150

  5. "Between Oceans" by John McCaskill, Image 1.

    "Between Oceans"

    woodcut print

    12 x 12 in

  6. Sails of the Ancestors: A Tribute to Hokuleʻa by John McCaskill, Image 1.

    Sails of the Ancestors: A Tribute to Hokuleʻa

    Digital Art on Canvas

    36 x 78 x 2 in

    $1,824

  7. "Foundation" by John McCaskill, Image 1.

    "Foundation"

    Photography

    18 x 24 in

    $950

  8. Sails of the Ancestors: A Tribute to Hokuleʻa by John McCaskill, Image 1.

    Sails of the Ancestors: A Tribute to Hokuleʻa

    Digital Art on Canvas

    36 x 88 x 1.5 in