GRB Hotspots, Space-Time Fuzziness, & Requisite Blurring
The paintings in this series are based on and influenced by GRB Hotspots. Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) are extremely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies. They are the brightest electromagnetic events known to occur in the universe. When observed by humans the photons/light has traveled and has wobbled or bent after traveling extreme distances through time. Therefore, earthlings can only glimpse these events as a blur.
The sources of most GRBs are billions of light years away from Earth, implying that the explosions are both extremely energetic (a typical burst releases as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime) and extremely rare (a few per galaxy per million years). Each painting is but a micro-moment; a combination of pure energy and explosive power. The paintings depict intermittent portals that help to resolve the spooky mechanics of quanta and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. These images indicate the existence of a subspace or shortcut that physically links distant locations.
Representational Allusions is a fundamental instrument of every persons everyday mind. It is used as our basic construct system of all our own realities to map, cubbyhole, arrange, and order the empirical world around us. Abstract paintings on the other hand, effect the mind in a completely different paradym. Often hitting areas of the brain that lay hidden and dormant. The mind then attempts to find a balance, a feeling, a reaction that automatically tries to use the representational tools used on a day to day basis to organize the abstraction.
The artworks in this Series appear to depict real places in a moment in time. Actually they are fantastic fantasy scenes created to allow the viewer to escape into their own inner worlds to project one’s own reactions onto and through the image that provokes some feeling, memory, or wish.
“Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi (Hindu)
In Buddhist philosophy, Māyā connotes a magic show, an allusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem.