There are two forces that I keep coming back to: the Seed of Life and lightning. One is the pattern of orderly unfolding. The other is sudden, raw, transformative power. Together, they're what I call the Spark of Life — and they're the reason the ohdavid logo looks the way it does.
The Seed
The Seed of Life is seven overlapping circles forming a pattern of interlocking petals. It's one of the oldest symbols in sacred geometry, and it shows up everywhere — in cell division, in flower petals, in the way crystals form. It represents the blueprint of creation: how something emerges from nothing through progressive geometric expansion.
What draws me to it is the idea of divine unity becoming multiplicity without ever losing its interconnectedness. One circle becomes two becomes seven, and each one is still touching all the others. That's how I think about building systems — every piece should connect to every other piece. One tab, one platform, everything talking to everything else.
The Spark
Lightning is the opposite energy. Where the Seed is patient and progressive, lightning is instant and violent. It represents creative force — the raw power that ignites life. In mythology, lightning is how gods speak: Zeus, Thor, Indra. It's the bridge between heaven and earth, the flash of sudden illumination.
But it's also deeply practical. Lightning doesn't negotiate. It doesn't plan. It finds the path of least resistance and it strikes. That's what unblocking feels like when it works — you identify the real constraint, and the energy that was dammed up behind it releases all at once.
The Union
When the Seed and the Spark come together, you get something alive. Order meeting chaos. Pattern meeting energy. Structure meeting the thing that breaks structure open.
That's the tension I try to hold in everything I do. The systems I build are the Seed — orderly, interconnected, expanding. The consulting work is the Spark — finding what's stuck and hitting it with enough force to move. The creative work — the music, the installations, the writing — is where both forces play together without needing to resolve.
The logo is five circles with a lightning bolt running through them. It's not just a brand mark. It's a reminder of what happens when patience and power meet in the same moment.
