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In imagining the reverse image, where the black ink marks will eventually become the highlights, the artist is starting with a negative, essentially "drawing with light," a process technically similar to photography and film. Since so many people see artwork now with projected light (usually a computer screen) as opposed to reflected light (in a book, a museum), it seemed to make sense to use projected light as the actual medium for the artwork. The eight panels for GENERATIONS form a visual loop. The theme is magnification: moving forward through the series is equivalent to zooming out, where each image is contained in the one that follows. Moving backward is equivalent to zooming in, where each image is a closeup of some part of the one that preceded it. Moving forward through each panel, it could be described like this: 1) Tree with Sun, Moon, and single leaf. 2) The tree and its surroundings become the pupil and iris of the eye. 3) The same eye is looking through the window. 4) The window is part of a strange house. 5) The house is part of a strange city in a landscape. 6) The landscape is seen from above the clouds, during an eclipse. 7) The landscape, clouds, and eclipse are contained in a drop of water. 8) The drop of water is clinging to the bottom of a leaf. 9) The leaf is clinging to the bottom of the tree in panel 1. The images for GENERATIONS are seen below. They are connected in various ways to the music on the album. For example: -The branching pattern in the tree (Panel 1) follows the Fibonacci series, (there are 144 branches) which is the rhythmic construction of "Moon" (Track 9). -The background writing on the wall (Panel 3) is an imaginary system of notation for pentatonic scales, used in "Overture" (Track 1). -The window that the boy looks through (Panel 3) is a golden rectangle, as are all of the other images, and this is primary frame for many of the compositions as well. -The strange city (Panel 5) forms a shadow mandala on the ground that shows the four triads that make up twelve tones in "Waves" (Track 3). -The honeycomb background (Panel 7) is the matrix of triads that is found in the harmony of almost every composition. -The branching pattern of the leaf (Panel 8) is again the Fibonacci series (there are 89 veins), which is reflected in the background spiral. There are more details that can be found by looking and listening closely. |
