THE EVOLUTION OF KNOWING

What if knowing does not begin with finding an answer, but with becoming sufficiently present to listen? Long before formal art study, Karen Mayo's intuitive art-making and automatic writing opened a doorway into deeper spiritual awareness. This lived experience remained central throughout a decade of university study in art and photography, where artistic experimentation, technical knowledge and critical inquiry expanded the possibilities of her practice. In The Evolution of Knowing, Mayo brings her practice into conversation with Wassily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, alongside Eckhart Tolle's writing on awareness. Their work offers points of recognition and critical dialogue, connecting lived spiritual experience with artistic knowledge, abstraction and research into space and presence. One of the discoveries explored throughout this journey is that recognition may precede understanding. Listening, in this sense, becomes something more than seeking an answer. It is an openness to what has not yet found language, a willingness to remain present within uncertainty and to recognise that understanding may emerge through the very act of attending. The Evolution of Knowing invites readers into this space of inquiry, where spiritual awareness, artistic practice and critical thought meet-and where the evolution of knowing remains an unfolding possibility.