From Singularity to Complexity

EVERYTHING
— and beyond every & thing —
is inspiration for this series

It is a fundamental exploration of matter1, forms and their meaning.
It is the artistic reflection of creation and unfolding.

1 matter — from Latin mater: origin, source, mother.

It does not matter1 which origin myth you follow
— in the beginning, out of nothing, emerged something and turned into EVERYTHING.

Let me derive the fundamental formicles and their relationships:

First there was energy and soon after — light.

Light

And its opposite — darkness.

Dark

This duality forms an archetype of itself — and a continuous drama. It's up to the observer to decide its meaning: of harmony (yin/yang) or struggle between good and evil — dominance and submission.

Duality — the struggle between light and dark

As energy became more dense it gathered at a point in space and time.

Point

Points related to each other by their closest distance — a linear line.

Line

So far so innovative — but what happens at the most simple intersection of 3 lines?

A revolutionary concept is birthed: the first FORM, an equilateral TRIANGLE.

One could call it the holy trinity, but as we have not arrived at meaning, we would be ahead of ourselves.

Triangle · 3 edges · 60°

Something peculiar happens when light hits the now form — it functions as a prism.

Suddenly the white light is split into a range of "new" lights, that we identify as the most prime and basic colors:

YELLOW RED BLUE

And then the shift happened to the next form — the SQUARE. Four perfect parts, that can be extended in the form of a grid indefinitely.

SQUARE · 4 edges · 90°

Realising this is also possible for the triangle — forming patterns without gaps — extendable indefinitely — and thus filling the whole universe, where the forms continue iterating and expanding.

We observe that happening for the next logical form — the HEXAGON. A cluster of six triangles, but again with unique properties folded in this fashion.

HEXAGON · 6 edges · 120°

And as the forms expand, so do the colors. The 3 primal colors intersecting create the second generation of colors: green, orange and purple.

Itten Farbkreis — 6 colors in hexagonal arrangement
6 Colors · 6 Segments · 1 Hexagon

THESE 3 basic forms and 6 colors can already create a myriad of form, color and fractals.

But to be mathematically exact, only the following patterns comprise the 3 FORMS without any gaps : 3 grids and 5 patterns can be FORMED — the regular and semi-regular tessellations.
Let's pause and exlore this small perfect universe of itself, as it is on the verge of further expansion:

This is the topic of this SERIES — and all the meanings we create through the archetype of these properties. We fill it with meaning. And more meaning. Until we go beyond meaning….