heARTist

Student of Light - Uncertainty Surfer - Novelty Creator and Seeker - Colorblind Visionary - Symmetric Asymmetry Wayfinder - Pattern Disruptor - Reflector

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“The task of the artist is to mythologize the present,” was quoted by author Joseph Campbell. This oil painting is titled, THE SPACES BETWEEN TIME, and it is meant to mythologize the way of being and living a fully decentralized life. My intention was to create a fully decentralized image. This painting is a synthesis of symbols and motifs between the digital and analog dimensions of reality. @DrJackKruse told me I should design and make it for one of his presentations.

Starting at the bottom of the image, there is a landscape of multiple shades and hues of green. The lower left area represents a circuit board. This circuit board contains many components that are found in a normal circuit board, and it is designed to appear like a traversable landscape. This left side represents the digital domain or dimension. On the circuit board, there are capacitors, two types of circuits, processors and transformers. It does not have all of the traditional components that one would see on a circuit board. The circuits have a branching fractal geometry to them.

On the lower right side of the painting, there is an organic nature landscape that one would see in the natural world. I placed a river branching and meandering through the wide open fields in a wild, chaotic fractal. This nature landscape has mushrooms, trees, forests, and a volcano at the horizon. These organic structures are positioned symmetrically and balanced visually to the other components on the circuit board. These digital and organic objects, with symmetrical placement, are meant to demonstrate a discernable difference between their shape and literal function. So, the position and function are considered symmetric or similar, but the physical shape is the asymmetric aspect.

Centered in the middle of the landscape exists a bronze-gold coin that is innervated by the fractals of both the digital and analog dimensions. The coin is in its short, round, flat, disc-like traditional standard shape. The coin is a tangible version of Bitcoin. Symbolically, the coin is “rooted” or has roots stemming from fractals of decentralized origin. Nature’s branching fractals, like river networks, lightning bolts, and tree are optimized for maximum distribution with minimal energy. Inside of the coin there is water. The coin is shown to be a pool that holds or houses water. Swimming pools contain a limited and finite amount of water within its confined area. Bitcoin is known to have a scarce, limited, and finite supply. The imagery of a coin shaped water pool, with limited amount of water, just like the limited amount of Bitcoins, is a visual metaphor for the fundamentals of its designed intention. In Bitcoin, the mempool, aka memory pool, is a node's holding area for all unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions. Coincidentally, the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is mem (מ). Mem literally means water in Hebrew. So this coin, shaped like a swimming pool, is thought of as a mempool, or more specifically, a waterpool. Also, one of the three M’s of water is its “memory” property. Water is literally a memory pool (mempool) for light. This depiction of the mempool, is a double overlapped meaning fused visually! I thought it would be an ideal visual to show that light communicates with water since water houses or holds the electromagnetic information from the sun. Within the gentle ripples of the water, you can see there is a capital letter B for Bitcoin in the shadows of the wavy water. The sun is beaming directly on the surface of the water. The shiny, scattered reflection splits the letter B right down the middle. A second M, of the three M’s of water, is the mirror property. The water is mirroring the sun to reveal that Bitcoin is the sunlight. If you look closely at the position of the sun, and the distance between the reflection on the water, it forms a lower case letter “i”. I put this in the painting because this effect occurs in real life. At certain low angles of the sun, while hovering above bodies of water, an observer can see that the sun and its reflection on the water does truly form the letter “i”. Intuitively, to me, I thought that when this effect happens with an observer, it can mean something relating to the “i” for words such as the “individual, independent, and individuation.” A couple things come to mind when I think about the individual in relation to the overall theme of this painting. The ethos of Bitcoin, and the ideologies accompanied with it, always talk about the individual being sovereign. The book, The Sovereign Individual, is often cited and discussed among Bitcoin groups. In addition, the entire design of Bitcoin uses independent nodes to verify transactions and blocks within the network. I would go even further and agree with the Bitcoin community to suggest there is an individuation process that takes place in the mind and psyche who decide to learn about Bitcoin and nature. Since nature and Bitcoin are both decentralized, there is a process that the individual goes through in order to exit the centralized networks that a mind/psyche interfaces with. During this process, the individual sheds previously subscribed visual illusions, lies, and conjectures that was once held in that particular reference frame, state of mind, or degree of consciousness. Carl Jung coined the term “individuation process”. It is a stretch but these ideas from Jung do parallel and cross pollinate into this subject and appropriately fit into this branch of our reality. In the painting, if you follow the letter “i” downward from the sun and water, I placed a human eye at the bottom middle of the landscape. This placement is a visual metaphor for seeing “eye to i” with nature. The traditional idiom, of biblical origin, “seeing eye to eye,” conveys a message of agreement, understanding, and confirmation. I would opine that this idiom carries over into the Bitcoin lexicon. The phrase, “don’t trust, verify,” is the most known phrase in Bitcoin. I would say that seeing eye to eye is a verification process similar to the way nodes verify transactions on the blockchain. This is a new way to look at the idiom, “seeing eye to eye,” with both Bitcoin and nature.

The sun is positioned at this angle to indicate that it is a sunrise and not a sunset. There is another saying in Bitcoin, which is, “it’s still early.” This means that it is still early to get in to buy or "hodl" the asset based on the protocol trajectory with its past performance history. Sunrises happen very early in the morning. I conflated that saying in Bitcoin into another unified visual connection between domains.

Above the sun, there are multiple objects organized in a specific arrangement. Firstly, there is a black mobius strip or band with a smooth surface that is reflecting the light and the spaces around it. A mobius strip is a one-sided, non-orientable surface made by taking a rectangular strip of solid matter, giving it a half-twist (180°), and joining the two ends together. The mobius strip’s geometry reveals a loop with only one continuous surface and one boundary edge, rather than two separate sides. It is also used symbolically to represent infinity. Nestled inside of the mobius strip, a human brain and human heart are unified into one organ structure. They’re centered precisely in the middle of the mobius strip. One half of the human brain hemisphere is woven into the main chambers of the heart. The heart needs to receive signals from the brain and the brain doesn’t work without the perfusion of the heart’s ability to supply blood. The position and angle of the hemisphere of the brain is a view that looks underneath it’s structure. The frontal lobe is oriented at the bottom, and it is aimed towards the sunrise. You don’t really see artwork that shows this angle of the brain. I wanted to show that the brain and heart are inseparably entangled. “Think with your heart,” is a derived meaning between the coalesced heart-brain image. There is another phrase in the bitcoin community, which they say, “21 million to infinity.” As the community says, “21 million to infinity” is both a technical reference to Bitcoin’s supply limit and a philosophical statement about its potential to represent all value. The infinity symbol is used metaphorically to represent all value, all wealth, or all that will ever exist. In Bitcoin’s context, it’s a way of imagining that Bitcoin could be the universal currency, and that everything in the world could be measured in Bitcoin as the new standard. I see the mobius strip as two separate and distinct surfaces that can be geometrically altered that makes it possible for separate sides to be fused into one object. A mobius band is a nondual object. I’m suggesting that the brain and heart are nondual and they should not be thought of as separate. The idea of taking two sides of the same object and deforming it is an activity I play around with besides the concepts of geometry. You can take two meanings, or multiple metaphors, and reconfigure them into a unified meaning. It can be thought of as contorting and rearranging applied meaning in the semantics of words. For example, another idiom that comes to mind, in sync with the themes in this writing is, “two sides of the same coin.” I like to think that this idiom can be applied to my painting because people discover Bitcoin both through the online digital space pathway and through the analog space pathway (separate “sides”). If the information embedded in Bitcoin reaches the individual in either direction, doesn’t that mean our interface, or mind, can encounter the convergent pathways that swing into the doorways of decentralization? If you think about it, the outside surface of a coin, around its cylindrical outside rounded edges, is the same one sided geometry that gets twisted in a mobius strip. A mobius strip is an embodied geometric “two sides of the same coin” phrase. Another example is, if mempool means memory pool, and water literally has memory, then this symbolic visual metaphor between mempool and waterpool are unified into one image like the mobius strip to describe how the digital and analog substances behave with the same functional properties.

There are two distinct white colored waveforms, in a two dimensional perspective, emerging from the heart-brain structure. The waveform emerging from the brain hemisphere represents the alpha wave. The alpha waveform is positioned to appear as if it is both exiting or entering the brain to the wormhole located on the left side of the painting. The alpha waveform is depicted as if the oscillation is moving bidirectionally into the spacetime wormhole and back to the brain. The PQRST heart beat waveform is emerging out of the heart side and “beating” bidirectionally into the right sided wormhole. I like to imagine, for this painting, that the heart-brain structure is a transducing node, or at least a coherent whole structure, that syncs and yokes the alpha wave (all brain waves) and PQRST wave simultaneously. I could have put the rest of the brain waves in the painting, but I chose alpha because it is well known to be particularly active while we physically ground and connect to the earth’s electromagnetic field and Schumann resonance.

The wormhole on the left represents the spacetime of the decentralized digital dimension. I added 2 dimensional squares that have the perspective of 3D cubes or blocks. There are smaller blocks and slightly larger blocks. I have them positioned at different depths within the wormhole to show “block size.” I have them at different depths to show they are traveling deeper into the warping spacetime wormhole. In a way, these blocks are strung along the cross sectional lines of spacetime, and one could imply that they look like a chain of blocks. It is a different visual for blockchain. Since Bitcoin acts like a clock in that it mines blocks every 10 minutes, known as the timechain, this side represents “block time.” The wormhole on the right represents the spacetime of the analog dimension. For this side, I embedded 2D spiral shaped chiral structures that represent circadian clock proteins in the spacetime lines. I have these traveling deeper into the wormhole to show different sizes similar to the blocks in the other wormhole. I added circadian clock proteins because that is the clock mechanism we as humans operate with in the analog dimension primarily through sunlight. It is a relative way to keep track of time, within our bodies, compared to the absolute block clock time of the bitcoin network. Therefore, the right side is the “body clock time.” The heart and its PQRST waveform have been described to act like the ticking of a clock. Each beat of the heart is “ticking” in a rhythm. The heart is a timekeeper and pacemaker in its own respect. I wanted to show that both dimensions use periodic mechanisms to keep track of time as Dr. Jack explained thoroughly. I designed the spacetime lines from each wormhole to bend towards the viewer in a foreshortened appearance to show that there is an even greater curvature, depth, and deformation. The spacetime lines do fuse to each other in the vertical midline of the image. The viewer is able to see the blocks and spiral clock proteins come “face to face” with each other in the top middle. I made it appear like those clock mechanism symbols are about to connect and communicate with the other side. That fusion shows how each clock mechanism feeds into each other. The clock mechanisms on both sides go in either direction from “block time” to “body clock time.” The inner, narrowing deformation and depth of the wormholes that turn and warp inwards towards each other imply that their ends connect in a unified spacetime region that the viewer cannot see. The connection between wormholes you cannot see suggest that they communicate and crosstalk between dimensions. One side talks to the other and vice versa. The theoretical physicist John Wheeler coined the term “wormholes.” He also has been quoted as the person who came up with the phrase, “it from bit” based on information theory. Both of those phrases are incorporated into this painting. It was immensely apropos to infuse those terms he posited into this image.

The ancient symbol of the caduceus can be seen centered right in the middle of the heart-brain-mobius strip structure. The staff and angel wings rise high into the sky above the structure. Why the caduceus? The caduceus is often cited mainly from Greek mythology, and even older civilizations, as the herald's staff carried by Hermes, the messenger god. According to legend, Hermes encountered two fighting snakes and separated them by casting his rod between them, causing the serpents to coil around it in reconciliation. The caduceus has many meanings including, balance, commerce, negotiation, harmony, alchemy, and more. There are tons of meanings behind the symbol of snakes. In some contexts, snakes can symbolize a contradictory visual of both death and rebirth. In other cases, snakes can be seen as both the poison and cure since the cure is derived from the poison by being transformed into the antidote. The snakes are purple or violet for a reason. They are purple/violet because that color represents UV (ultraviolet) from the sun. It can be said that if you don’t know how to be or utilize UV wisely, and if you’re not careful around UV, it can “bite” you. If UV bites and burns you then usually our skin receives the apoptotic stimuli and then sheds or dies off. The old cells die and the new skin is reborn. Our skin sheds to get rid of the old or damaged cells just like snakes shed their outer scales to molt their old self and be born anew. The circadian mechanism can be thought of as a mini death and rebirth since we go through autophagy and apoptosis during this process. The vertical golden staff represents ascension. A section of the staff is actually segmented into a golden cross. The golden cross is centered exactly where the two angel wings branch from the center axis of the cross. The two snakes form a reconciled orientation to one another, which can mean the two realms are beginning to harmonize with one another in an effort to bring forth the new system of commerce instead of the corruption that centralization usually fosters. In modern times, the caduceus is used as the medicinal emblem. Decentralized medicine was coined by Dr. Jack. To tie it even more together, the sunrise signifies a brand new start of the day and what lies on the horizon is the beginning of the convergence of new and established decentralized networks unifying to bring about their separate functions to combine them and maximize the felt experience of time. It is said that time is our most valuable asset, and that’s why I placed an hourglass at the top of the caduceus in a hierarchical placement. The hour glass placement on the caduceus can be seen as “time flies!” I placed the human eye at the foundation that “aims” at the highest asset we call time. Both elements of father time and mother nature are found in this. I’ll leave you with an alliteration…decentralized circuits and circulatory systems circuitously circumvent centralization.

Message me if you’re interested in a print. I’m selling prints at 4 different sizes.

16x20 inches, 1 inch white border

18x24 inches, 1 inch white border

24x36 inches, 1.5 inch white border

32x40 inches, 1.5 inch white border

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Nature is clairvoyant and knows exactly what your psyche needs

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Pain manifests in different expressions because love isn't present.

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Computation + metabolome = computabolome = you

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Decentralized circuits and circulatory systems create circular economies that circuitously circumvent centralization.

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Self judgement is like speed wobbles on a skateboard. The more you judge, the more you increase your turbulence while trying to maintain balance. If you chronically judge, you eventually crash.

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Feeling is the primary language

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Emotion = energy in motion

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Percection = perception + connection

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Don’t try and think what it should be. Just know that it is.

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The Now has always ever been a singularity

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The brain sees what it expects to see.

You have no choice but to follow along until something breaks you from that one perspective that captivated you.

Hold to the possibility your perspective is not the only one.

There are always other perspectives.