Imaginary shapes 07
"Imaginary shapes" is a work composed of three paintings containing a collection of shapes. These shapes employ the contrast of black line and white background, making the image seem different at times. They manipulate the visual faculties responsible for creating images in us.
The images seem to posses the quality of transitory structural stability that gradually and almost seamlessly transforms over time. Despite being fixed shapes painted meticulously and with a high degree of organization, they actually are not fixed. As Physicist David Bohm, who was deeply influenced by Einstein, said:
'Everything that seems constant in the world, audible and tangible, is only an illusion. The reality is that the world is dynamic, infinite in its shapes and colors, and not as it appears. What we see as standard and orderly is the explicate order of things that is explicable and understandable'.
The shapes here are precisely prepared by use of sharp instruments. They also tend to be geometrical rather than random- they are a collection of rectangles, squares and hexagons. They resemble the shapes of the Dynamic Illusion Movement or Op Art. The elements of this work are geometric artistic expressions that have dual allusions, infinitely expandable and compressible. These simple, flat lines and shapes, upon inspection, protrude and sink in, creating a visual illusion through the reflections caused by the supposedly rigid shapes.
The imaginary shapes are formed due to the proximity of the lines, creating geometric formations out of the movements of straight lines that don’t move for the purpose of creating the shapes, but rather simply as a result of the distortion caused by the proximity of the lines and shapes. Curves on the surface of the painting by the slanted lines give the illusion of movement as a result of the contrast between the stationary horizontal lines and moving slanted line. This gives the shapes a third dimension, the depth in the scene and hence brings out the holographic qualities of these shapes.
The viewer is an important part of this work. By its very nature, the work requires direct interaction with the viewer, given that the eye is the fundamental part of the illusion. A painting in "Illusion Art" can only move or change within the sphere of the visual/optical processes. Ultimately I am not only attempting to gratify the mind, but also quench its thirst delve far into the depths of imagination, into dimensions not constrained by the limits of what is physically visible.
The images seem to posses the quality of transitory structural stability that gradually and almost seamlessly transforms over time. Despite being fixed shapes painted meticulously and with a high degree of organization, they actually are not fixed. As Physicist David Bohm, who was deeply influenced by Einstein, said:
'Everything that seems constant in the world, audible and tangible, is only an illusion. The reality is that the world is dynamic, infinite in its shapes and colors, and not as it appears. What we see as standard and orderly is the explicate order of things that is explicable and understandable'.
The shapes here are precisely prepared by use of sharp instruments. They also tend to be geometrical rather than random- they are a collection of rectangles, squares and hexagons. They resemble the shapes of the Dynamic Illusion Movement or Op Art. The elements of this work are geometric artistic expressions that have dual allusions, infinitely expandable and compressible. These simple, flat lines and shapes, upon inspection, protrude and sink in, creating a visual illusion through the reflections caused by the supposedly rigid shapes.
The imaginary shapes are formed due to the proximity of the lines, creating geometric formations out of the movements of straight lines that don’t move for the purpose of creating the shapes, but rather simply as a result of the distortion caused by the proximity of the lines and shapes. Curves on the surface of the painting by the slanted lines give the illusion of movement as a result of the contrast between the stationary horizontal lines and moving slanted line. This gives the shapes a third dimension, the depth in the scene and hence brings out the holographic qualities of these shapes.
The viewer is an important part of this work. By its very nature, the work requires direct interaction with the viewer, given that the eye is the fundamental part of the illusion. A painting in "Illusion Art" can only move or change within the sphere of the visual/optical processes. Ultimately I am not only attempting to gratify the mind, but also quench its thirst delve far into the depths of imagination, into dimensions not constrained by the limits of what is physically visible.
