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Artist's statement:
(Not posted to the contest site)
When Janet Parke announced the theme of her forthcoming contest for 2001 I immediately started to think on a series about
the creation - perhaps inspired by some earlier images (in the spirit of #4 or #9) but without knowing the already
existing series
of Linda Allison with exactly this theme.
A series of images requires some kind of coherency - either in the images themselves or in the attached & required
interpretation. I chose for the second variant but still under the restriction that any image uses at least one of my own
formulas.
(UF Parameters of the images are available on request.)
ad 1:
Gen 1, 26 says "let us make man in our image". Who is we, if not trinity is assumed to exist as of the very beginning of history.
Hence the triangle is already inherent to the amorph chaos of the first step of creation.
As a mathematician I don't like singularities, hence I'm in favour of the fairly new theory of ekpyrotic cosmology, which
avoids
the ugliness of the big bang theory.
The moving surface of water then may depict equally the border between membranes (or 3branes)....
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ad 2:
The simple word of God makes things happen! Let there be light... And this is happening today as it was 2000 years or longer
ago.
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ad 3:
Who discernes light and darkeness, good and bad? Ethical values can't be derived by scientific methods.
But as human beings we can't avoid the everlasting twilight zone of doubts, questions and fear...
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ad 4:
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
(Ps. 8;3-4)
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ad 7:
Man created in God's image signifies for me more the metaphoric statement of 2 Cor. 5,17:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Hence hovering light & dark fields over the chaos ressemble picture #1 - interpreted in an individual way - where the bicentric / bipolar structure with lots of underlying
ligatures symbolizes the defined similarities and differences between man and woman.
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ad 8:
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto
Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
(Gen. 2,19)
Isn't this the symbol of any scientific activity of mankind - to the extent that any answered question raises two new open questions or even more....with no end at sight.
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ad 9:
Holiness is purity, white and untouched. The drop of melting glass symbolizes the fire of repentence.
Or is this image inspired by the description of near-death experiences?
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