In the physical sciences and mathematics, a soliton, or solitary wave, is a wave packet that sustains its form as it propagates at a constant velocity, making its energetic dissipation thus lossless. Solitons are ubiquitous in our environment: from sinuous waves in open oceans to patterns of clouds drifting in the stratosphere and patterns within DNA structures.
In this exhibition composed of three large sculptures and an installation, I explore the abstract notion of forces through energetic dissipation and rhythm that are perceived and theorized commensurately within nature and culture, thus synergizing seemingly antithetical concepts; forces meld science and art, light and dark, static and dynamic, East and West, fullness and emptiness. Energy is taken here in the widest understanding of the term; in modern Physics as a quantitative transfer for matter to do work, and in Eastern philosophy as the Qi - the vital force that permeates the universe. Rhythm is deployed visually in the static works and through a subliminal prompting of the observer to circumambulate the works.
Aesthetics and principles of Zen gardens are explored with this installation where each work functions as a visual oasis of respite that is amenable to contemplation and introspection into our coexistence with nature and conception of reality, existence, and perception.
I invite you to a cosmic jaunt
in lossless dissipation, in silent plenitude
into my existential Zen garden.