From singularity to complexity

In the primordial soup, there was only pure potential — formless, inherently holding color and meaning. Ignited by the light, the potential entered its first stage: a separation of light and darkness. This binary form was unstable, as each side vied to dominate the other.

Depicted by the black, regular grid and the irregular white blocks struggling to fit within it, the structure captures this dynamic tension—a transient, incomplete state poised to unfold further.

As light break through a prism, colors emerge. I imagine the first light that ever emerged to be yellow, as it is at the center of the prism or a rainbow. Beside it, green borders toward blue, and orange transitions toward the red.

The yellow triangles represent a missing link, an essential structure that holds the entire composition together. Embodied by orange squares and green hexagons, completing a dynamic shape.

It’s a story of emergence and the first equilibrium, though still seemingly fragile.

A lot of us want to believe in a seeming complex separation in terms like race, gender, age or nationality.

Truth is, we are all one thing: catalysts of energy. Since living things were formed through the magic of RNA and DNA, we had to find a way to process energy. It's the common denominator for everything living - including humans.

Even if we are seemingly separated into a trillion divisions: We are one, but whole.

The earliest humans started to reflect on themselves by creating icons or gadgets that followed functions like safety or fertility. Gathering these building blocks of form and color a meaning is given to them.

In art, we use patterns and techniques to display ideas and emotions. This piece represents perfect harmony - casted by semi-regular tessellations and the 6 basic colors.

One thing that is not a thing - stands out. A square left empty in the middle. It's the void, the thing that cannot be explained. But at the same time the center of it all.

If you can put a finger on our consciousness, please let me know where to find it.

A form is a construct in the 2nd, 3rd, or higher dimension—one that can be mathematically defined with precision. These forms aggregate into increasingly complex structures.

Hydrogen, the most basic element, emerged first from dense energy as the fundamental building block. Through subatomic construction, atomic fusion, and onward to bundle in complex molecules and their aggregations, the physical world developed, creating everything we see and touch.

But don’t be fooled by its solid appearance. Beneath it lies a structure not of solidity, but of energy— that has never been truly solid, only matter in motion.

Pattern recognition is the apex of human intelligence development. Homo sapiens “the wise human”, began to utilize recurring forms—and thus, patterns—in increasingly useful ways. It fostered collaboration through communication among early humans, making them more effective. This led to the creation of organization, surplus, and the further advancement of our species.

Did you know that the same set of roughly 32 symbols* has been found in cave paintings all over Europe and some worldwide? There must be a universal understanding of these forms—a shared meaning. Their use later evolved into our written languages.

We are storytellers of meaning, and this is the root of our collective development.

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg&list=PL-AQmqKni0T6QoxBbLvZs31IBy7n9ncYU

Since the emergence of meaning through symbols, slowly more and more complex symbols and meanings arrived and gradually filled the database of the collective human experience.

Especially in recent decades, this database has experienced exponential growth via the emergence of digital data, and the collective reservoir has become unimaginably large. It has come to a point where we have moved beyond meaning, as there is no longer a collective understanding of reality. Thus, we have begun to live in our own individual echo chambers.

The symbols are still there, but the meanings we derive are more and more subjective. Only time will tell what the next evolution at this stage will be, and if we will find our way back to a collective understanding.

In order for things to be, they cannot form follow a complete perfect distribution.

The evidence for that is the background radiation of the Big Bang, which shows that energy  was unevenly distributed - in the structure you can see engraved in the background of this art piece.

Following this concept the tokens - aka. formicles - of ever more complex shapes and colors spread out. Systematic but also individual away from the center of the canvas towards more and more complexity on the edges. On this path they follow certain rules, like natural laws, but especially they divide into the five semi-regular tessellation patterns.

Natural laws of formicles:

• Every shape of a formicle must be possible to be plotted at least on one of the five semi-regular tessellation patterns.
• A formicle can be constructed by using a maximum of six FORMS and a maximum of three pieces of one form shape (TRIANGLE, SQUARE and HEXAGON).
• A formicle represents also the mirroring form of this formicle.
• The forms have to be connected edge to edge with no spacing.
• Besides the semi-regular tessellation, also their predecessor, the regular tessellation - which is a grid of the shapes - is included.

Like forms spreading in the universe, formicles are also intended to spread all over the globe. At their core they have an RFID Chip with their origin code of the 100 formicles on this canvas. You can get an formicle here (LINK will be added later) - please enjoy your form.