Number Theory

The last few posts I have been talking mostly about other people's art work, so I would like to take this post to discuss my own. Since I have spent much of my time learning a lot of new programs I haven't had much time to really focus in one particular area. Therefore, much of the commonalities in my work is in concept rather than any particular style or medium. The many reoccurring ideas in my work consist of time, existence, religion, nature, and numerology. Not all of them are obvious, but I find that some of these always exist in my work, whether I intend them to or not.

Much of my work dealing with time and numerology go hand in hand. I often include clocks in my work in order to bring focus to specific numbers, usually those that the hands of the clock are pointing to. I am particularly interested in the number 7. The number is meant to represent completion, this stemming from Genesis (the world created in seven days). I have been experimenting with patterns on the clock, particularly combinitions that add up to seven (1+6, 2+5, 3+4, 4+3, 5+2). Counting seven itself there are six numbers on a clock that when broken down to single digits, add up to the number seven: 7, 16, 25, 34, 43, and 52. Being only six, therefore incomplete, it lead me too latest obsession, the number 61.

Since there are only 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, for a clock to reach the number 61, it is impossible. 61 is a number that cannot exist in time. I have also been studying duality, meaning everything as an opposite and nothing can exist on earth without something to balance it. This means that if time exists, there must also be an opposite plain where time does not exist, where the number 61 can exist. This absence of time is called void and is represented in my work as the number 61.

I plan on expanding my theories on time and numerology as I continue my work. I don't really know where all of this will eventually lead, but at the very least I would like to create a set of symbols that helps to identify my artwork. These symbols would only mean something if the viewer was familiar with my work. The number 61 is only one item, but as I develop my own person theories I hope to add more to the list.