As from 2021, Phil Barton will be using the seal above to sign his print and other paper based works made up of two symbols – the Chinese red dragon symbol which he first knew playing Mah Jong with his father as a teenager and the Greek capital letter Phi from his given name.
The red dragon represents the animal kingdom, including humanity, and the character zhōng also means centre, middle, achievement. The letter phi, as well as forming the first syllable of his name, is used to represent the golden ratio, section or mean and is a symbol for wave functions in quantum mechanics and Schrödinger’s Equation.
