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I'm a
Louisiana Artist working in Acrylic on Board. These
paintings incorporate the concepts of NUMBER and QUANTUM
PHYSICS in an effort to evoke a sense of
connectedness...across time and space, within ourselves
and in our relationships.
Painting Title: Zero
Size: 34" wide x 55" tall
Medium: Acrylic on Board
This painting is on a board that has Golden Section
Dimensions. The Space is broken up into the Golden
Section Proportions.
Zero has two uses…both important, but distinctly
different from each other. One use is as an empty place
indicator in our place-value number system. For
instance, in the number 102, the zero is used simply to
put the 1 and 2 in the correct "place". When the
place-value use of zero was introduced, a simple dot was
used…note the diamond-shaped dot…the ancient Hindu form
called the ‘bindu’.
Secondly, the zero is used as a number itself, meaning
"none", "empty" or "nothing". Indians used the Glyph "0"
as early as 640 BC. Fibonacci, the Italian mathematician
who introduced the Hindu-Arabic number system to Europe
around 1200, called it a "sign" rather than a number.
His name for zero was "Zefiro"---from the Semitic sifr,
which meant "empty".
One
Size: 36" Wide x 60" Tall
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
The most basic of all glyphs is the vertical line,
originally a tally mark depicting a single unit. Since
it also has connotations of God, a single vertical mark
--- centered, bold and white --- was used as the
first/original mark on this painting.
The sensuous Sanskrit glyph for one that overlays the
white, vertical ONE mark means refined, consecrated and
sanctified. Sanskrit (4,000 years + writing system),
considered the "high, classical" Indian language, is
used in religious and scientific applications, much as
the romantic languages consider Latin to be classical
and use it for religious and scientific applications.
Sanskrit is the liturgical language of Hinduism,
Buddhism, and Jainism.
The Sanskrit word for one, (pronounced eka), in the
upper left, has been filled with Sanskrit text, which is
translated as:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and
rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and
should act towards ONE another in a spirit of
brotherhood.
This is Article ONE of the United Nations’ Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
Other interesting facts:
• ONE is the only digit that, when pronounced in
English, has the same number of syllables as its valueIn
all monotheistic cultures, ONE is identified with God.
• ONE has an interesting double meaning: first/smallest
and most whole/complete.
• ONE is also the:
• First odd number (and the smallest positive odd
number)
• First ordinal number (FIRST, PRIMARY, PRINCIPAL,
INITIAL, BEGINNING)
• Lowest cardinal number
*has two cardinal values:
SMALLEST, MOST BASIC UNIT (one, unit, unity, solo,
single, mono, uni-)
WHOLE, COMPLETE, TOTALITY (we are one---with the
universe, nature
• Atomic Number for Hydrogen
• Aries is the first astrological sign of the Zodiac
• Ancient Greece: 1 was not a number, only a unit. Two
was considered the first proper number.
• ONE is the square of ONE, and also the cube of ONE.
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