Fusion of Polarities

Controversial reality inspires a yearning for the unity of opposites, namely – the fusion of polarities.’ Apparently, it is precisely these gaps that catalyze attraction and fusion. Gaps in energetic potential generate motion, constituting the basis for the power of growth, and polarity differences form the basis for magnetic attraction.

Universal energy flows in a spiral pattern; it is affected by the power of polarity that regulates this motion. Attraction exists between spiral structures that gyrate in opposite directions. For example, a water vortex is a feminine-absorbing phenomenon that forms a negative pole, whereas a tornado vortex is a phenomenon of masculine expansion that forms a positive pole. This is the universal energetic model.

Intricate visual simulations of that model emerge as paintings and photographs in the book-object Fusion of Polarities. The presence of cosmic energy vital to any existence has had diverse, albeit essentially similar manifestations in all cultures: Prana in India, Chi in China, Astral Light in the Ten Sefirot of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life in Judaism, wave fields and electromagnetic radiation in science. Images of ostensibly polar opposites – physics and metaphysics, earthly and heavenly, nature and culture – are blended in the process of leafing. The fusion of polarities in time emerges in the book by citing a highly ancient, albeit extremely topical human-work.

A pair of counterrotating spirals etched in stone with stone tools within a flux of ‘molecules’ from the Neolithic period versus a current-scientific molecular image that appears as a painterly sketch and as a brass object made by a laser cutting technique. Dubbed ‘fullerenes,’ this form is produced as a strong, energetically durable, spatial crystal of a carbon molecule used in optical and technological applications.

The book refers to the capacity to transmute from energy to matter to energy, as well as to an artificial imitation of the natural processes of Creation. The universal energetic model is valid on all levels, from the nucleus to nebulae as star and galaxy clusters, or as gas clouds extending across the sky resembling cloud fragments. It is this very abstract cloud entity that appears in the Bible as a ‘pillar of cloud’ which provides direction, protection, and emerges as a source of wisdom.

Deconstruction and reconstruction of the ‘pillar of cloud’ image appear in the book as a backbone of books, in-between focalizing light crystals and galactic spirals. Two Ammonite fossils appear on the book cover, embracing a perfect fullerenes crystal within spirals.

The fossilization of the marine creature absorbed the energetic structure of the water vortex in the process of natural evolution. Through the work’s intervention, the fossil is cast in bronze as a future material pole, and once again as an azure manifestation via spiral repetition and energetic reverberation conscious of its origin as water.