Ed Kerns
“BB Consciousness 2023 41x31 - Huge”
Original Painting : Acrylic and Mixed Mediums on Canvas
Size: 40.00x30.00 inches | 102x76 cm
Framed : 41.00x31.00 in | 104x79 cm
Edition: Original
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Year2023
Hand SignedOn Verso
Condition Excellent
Framed without GlassNatural Wooden Floating Frame
Purchased fromArtist 2023
Provenance / HistoryThis work is one of several new works based on concepts of consciousness that follow up on a grand series of paintings entitled "Octopus Consciousness", a painterly meditation series on this highly intelligent and remarkably sentient creature. So many concepts of "self" come to us by position sense or as Nicholas Humphrey says in his book entitled, "Sentience", proprioception. The body uses sensors in joints and muscles along with senses to perceive the spatial location of body parts. This physical sense coupled with experientially based memory (Iconic imagery) push forward bodily responses to create meaningful movement...particularly so when moving a brush, or a tool informed by memory and an action response to materiality. These paintings do that and become a series of works thinking about space-time in the making of art.
Story / Additional InfoThe recent Nobel Prize in Physics (2022)went to two physicists who demonstrated the theory of a non-local universe in which particles who have had entanglement continue to influence each other even at great cosmic distances. Something happening to one immediately causes a reaction in the other. It appears to happen outside space-time and at a rate faster than the speed of light. Imagining such overlapping energy fields is a part of how the structures of these paintings occur and in an emergent manner, with simple systems combining to form larger complex structures.
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