04/21/2022
Einstein's Gravitational Wave Theory Edition
Mural of All Times Series
30 X 88 inches on Arches Aquarelle Rag 310g
For See | Me Emerge Exhibition
Blue Gallery, New York
April 25th, 2022
Einstein's Gravitational Wave Theory, corroborated by the scientific community in 2015, is challenging to conceive of in visual terms. Central to understanding the theory is the idea that time is not linear but circular.
In cultural terms, this understanding even helps decode the art of 65,000-year-old Australian aboriginal society. Aboriginal "daydreaming" or time travel is an aspect of an extraordinary imaginary world represented in aboriginal dot paintings. The superimposition of many of these works reveals patterns created through the juxtaposition of tonal and chromatic values and the visual vibrations rising out of them. These patterns of visual vibration are closely related to the anatomical studies of whales. Analysis of the highly evolved skeletal structure in cetaceous mammals has revealed essential relationships between these anatomical studies, the physics of wavelength, the anatomical survey of whales, and the symbolic language in aboriginal art.
Correlations between these varied fields of human understanding have been accessed through creative applications of digital technology, which make these relationships coherent through visual representation. The transfer of the artist's sketches into a layered form of digital media is effected by creating a "bar code" (the eight vertical panels of the print) of additive and subtractive visual information.
The viewer is invited to "remember" this rhyming and rhythmic past, present and future in the form of a vibration.