Meme Catcher (version 3)

I purchased a package of gold, silver, and white pens as a package of four metallic pens for these recent projects. I was looking specifically for gold metallic pens, but I found a package of these three characteristics. A while back before this, I had been discouraged by a white gel pen I purchased as part of a large collection of glittery and metallic pens at Sam’s Club. I mean, that thing was like as translucent as milk when I applied it to drawings I had been working on. So, the new white gel pen I now have is much better than that.

In this version of Meme Catcher, the metallic gold quality has been filtered out of the looping ribbons of the mandelic weaving patterns. I did this because I wanted to explore the usage of silver instead of gold. While I do have a silver pen I can use—and plan on using—for current artworks, I didn’t use it for Meme Catcher. I think I’ve been using the gold metallic pens because of the holiday seasons.

As you can see, there’s a lot going on with this picture. It has three drawings of mine layered into it. Basically, the work called Lucky Trust is placed behind Meme Catcher. I selected and hollowed out areas on the planes of Meme Catcher so that any layers behind it could be seen. As you may have read from previous blog posts, Lucky Trust consists of two drawings of mine: One, Lucky Trust (version 1), and, two, A Synthesis of Matter and Mind.

I’m fascinated by torus knots, and topological formations lately, and, as you may know Celtic designs, and Islamic mosaics. The symbolism of the intricate weavings of Celtic designs I have learned is to communicate a sense of the interconnectedness between all things. I think this same idea is communicated in Islamic mosaics as well. This may have been the intention of the artists of those most precisely calculated designs—I don’t know. This is a history I feel compelled to research some more.

With my mosaics and designs, one can get a sense of small individual pieces comprising a whole, much like cells in an organ; the Celtic/Islamic weaving patterns provide a more smooth consistency, allowing the eye to slide and loop around the picture plane like a passenger on a train can let the blur of a landscape pass by, every once in a while, focusing in on a point of interest.

I am increasingly becoming more interested in wire meshes and decorative iron fence vector. There is just something about the space that gives supporting “body” to the rather two dimensional constructions. I suppose it’s the polarity between that which is non-physical and “hard” matter. As you may know, the smaller and smaller one focuses in on the elementary particles of matter, the less material matter seems. Perhaps everything really is just space, and this world we live in is just a simulated illusion we’re contracted with someone to live out as part of an agreement.

In a way, this version of Meme Catcher can almost be seen as a fear of space, of emptiness, of loneliness: It has so many nuances and patterns within patterns in it that it seems like me, and the greater forces of creation behind it, wanted to pack it with so much differentiated color and activity that it looks like an attempt to escape from complete void. I don’t think there’s too much to worry about however. This universe—even dark matter—seems to be chock full of stuff.