Jonet Harley-Peters

              

        

        

The work is relief construction made  from pigments and/or photographic material (sometimes both) and paper that is glued, cut and layered to make 3D shapes, the raw pigments enhance the purity of the colour and provide surface texture.

These pieces hold and reflect light, the gaps between the shapes create shadows emphasising depth. The layers  are analogous of strata in geology  and reflect levels of feeling within the inner self, referring to the passing of time and the point between dreaming and waking, where the life of the mind meets the physical world of form.

My interest in proportion has developed from an understanding of the practical use of geometry in medieval building  (a  system similar to the classical Golden Section). And  how  geometry and underlying pattern in all physical matter  are found in nature and in systems of measurement at the micro and sub atomic level in Quantum physics. In Indian mythology the story of ‘Indra’s Net’ demonstrates this holographic view.

‘A holographic view of consciousness  is, perhaps the closest physics can come to mysticism without the two losing their identities. One is reminded of Indra’s net mentioned in the Avatamsaka Sutra in which the universe is viewed as a sort of cosmic network of interpenetrating things and events’

“In the heaven of Indra there is said to be a network of pearls, so arranged that if you
look at one you see all the others reflected in it. In the same way each object in the
world is not merely itself but involves every other object and in fact is everything else”.

The finished work is framed in custom made box frames behind glass,  the frames vary in depth from 4 to 8 cms.

*Mysticism and the new physics – Michael Talbot – p40-41

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