Approximate the shape of the container within which you find yourself

This one has a vibe somewhere between a chalkboard in a knot theory class and something boiling. Structurally, the centers of gravity for the constituent clusters are three across and five deep, relatively evenly distributed. If you follow the line, you’ll get a sense of how it tags up around each of these focal points, and then revisits them to tie the whole together.

I think there’s something here related to the role played by grid matrices. A matrix isn’t some sort of a lattice that provides a pre-existing underlying structure for things coming into being. Systems that can evolve complexity, through having enough energy coming in that they are able to swim against the entropic current for a time, fill the available space via currents, eddies, branching flows, articulating themselves in curving and spiraling fractals. Its after the resulting forms, more or less evenly distributed, crystalize, mineralize, or calcify that they geometrically disassemble into pyramids and cubes. Think the cracking of drying mud flats or the calving of glaciers.

The matrix is an innovation on a par with fire, the wheel, agriculture, incalculably valuable to civilization’s creation and operation, but make no mistake. Outside of the human world, the matrix describes the way things fall apart.

48”x36”
acrylic on canvas
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