Description
This image is derived from 144 versions of the original version of “Mind, the Gap”. Constructed using the same technique used to construct Mind, the Gap, and is intended as an exploration into the image integrity as I induce more versions into the final image. The experiment was a resounding success in this regard. So to explain more thoroughly the multiples, and the resolution inducement – “Mind, the Gap” was made up of a 3X3 resolution of the original composition, which can be seen in the accompanying image here, and then “Asmodeus” is made up of 16 versions of “Mind, the Gap”, so in an equation that looks like (3X3) X 16 = 144.
Something quite synchronous happened whilst constructing this image, that lead to the piece getting the title it has –
I had been listening to the author Alan Moore on a podcast – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MeiTm7YdkM&t=6912s
In the podcast Alan Moore speaks of encounters in his earlier days with other worldly beings, one of which is Asmodeus, the Daemon of mathematics, who describes as being quite playful. Moore began to research Asmodeus more, after more frequent encounters with this being. In his description Moore says that in appearance the being seemed to be playing/toying with what plausibly looked like another dimension. This lead Moore to examine what a being from a fourth dimension may look like. In one of the books he read to research this topic, a book that didn’t touch on the subject of Asmodeus, but did mention what a being from a fourth dimension may present itself to us as, may look like –
“Well I think it would look like multiple copies of itself at different sizes, in a kind of lattice work”
This jolted me out of where I was standing, and is why I had to name this piece of work after the concept Alan Moore had just alerted me to. What does it mean for me? I have no real idea, maybe in time it will reveal itself to me, but the description of what a fourth dimensional entity may look like, is pretty much the best description in summary that I have encountered of my “squared Panotraits”
