Medium: Custom software, computer, screen, oak frame
Dimensions: 25" x 44" x 4"
Price: $25000.0 Edition of 5 with 1 Artist's Proof
Description: Protector of the World is a dynamic screen-based work of software art based on the "hidden geometry" underlying Tara, the Tibetan Buddhist embodiment of female power. The piece refracts the coloring of a very low-resolution image of a thangka painting sampled and refracted through the underlying geometry that that for centuries have guided thangka painters' hands. The refracted images emerge from a colorfield void, gradually become more complex, and then falls back into the void. The process is meant to convey the mental evolution of the meditator, or yogi, focusing on the image of an enlightenment being with imperfect faculties, seeing a blurry form that, according to my meditation teachers, is a perfectly fine support for the mind. The imagery is also meant to convey the middle of the three "bodies" in Vajrayana Buddhism. The dharmakaya relates to the enlightened mind, and the nirmanakaya relates to an enlightened being's body. But the sambhogakaya is something in between: an energetic light body that represents creativity, speech, movement, and the many other ways our body connects to our mind, including through meditation. This piece evolves in relation to the rotation of the earth via custom software running on a computer connected to the framed display. Its appearance is unique and non-repeating for any moment in time, produced through the relationship between two irrational numbers.
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