Where are you Dad?

2008 |  Acrylic paint on perspex | 33 x 22 x 21 cm

Subatomic space

E=mc2 is the famous equation developed by Albert Einstein. E stands for energy, m stands for mass and c is the speed of light. In a nutshell the equation tells us that mass and energy are the same thing. At a subatomic level we are no more than layers of energy fields creating the illusion of solidity. We are made up of more than 99.9% empty space. Our understanding of the physical world is limited by the veil of our perceptions. This piece zooms subatomic space to the scale of human perceptual understanding. It gives us the opportunity to digest how matter is a matter of perception.

My Judge

2011 | Acrylic and Ink on Canvas | 50  x 150 cm

Interconnectedness of Self

2008 | Ink on Canvas, Resin and Powder | 200 x 200 x 300 cm 

Link to all things

As we move deeper into the 21st century humankind is only just starting to develop an understanding of the interconnectedness of all things.  We are at the dawn of an unprecedented era where each human begins to take personal responsibility for their impact on the Earth as a whole. For each living entity, mountanous and microscopic, categorised and undiscovered, we have come to know that survival is umbilically linked to the organic whole.

This knowledge has taken our species all of evolution to learn. It has given us of a freedom of creation we never thought we had.  We are no longer suffering the delusion that humanity is separate from all of nature. We are one with the Cosmos.

We are part of an energy family much greater than we ever imagined. 

Immigrant

2009 | Perspex, ink and resin | 17 x 25 x 3 cm 

Faces of the Moon

2010 | Resin, powder, steel and perspex | 150 x 63 x 35 cm

This series of paintings was dreamt up with one eye peering through a large home telescope for long periods of time. The moon was my subject of fascination. I mean the details on the moon.

'Faces of the Moon' is done in two colours  and explores my own face as I move through my biorhythmic cycle. Like in so many of my other works, I can't help seeing the link between my own cycles and the solar system as a whole. In this piece I focus on the me-earth-moon-sun thread.

Update on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 2:40AM by Jonty Hurwitz

Minimum Information

In this series of paintings I became fascinated with finding the minimum amount of information required for the human brain to make sense of what it consumes. The great physicists were able to derive laws and equations with what appeared like fragments of data at the time. 

How long did it take to paint these few blobs of white paint on a black background? 

I heard a beautiful story about Picasso.  He was sitting at a coffee shop one day, late in his life when a young lady came up to him asking for his autograph.  He took a serviette, sketched her face in a few lines and then signed it.  

"That will be 200,000," he said as he handed her sketch.

"200,000?" she exclaimed "but it only took you a few seconds"

"No it didn't!" he replied, "it took me a lifetime."