Piet Mondrian’s works have long been celebrated as pioneering exercises in abstraction, distilling the world into grids and primary colours. But what if these seemingly minimalist compositions are, in fact, intricate codes—blueprints for metaphysical realities? Looking at Mondrian through the same lens as Malevich and Rothko, we begin to see that his geometric precision wasn’t … Read more
The Smoking Gun We’ve Been Ignoring? Picture this. The world is emerging from an ice age. Gigantic glaciers dominate the northern continents, early humans are thriving, and mammoths still roam the earth. Then, in an instant, the temperature plummets, megafauna vanish, and entire human cultures disappear without a trace. Conventional history chalks it up to natural … Read more
In the vast landscape of modern art, few pieces provoke as much debate, interpretation, and outright existential puzzlement as Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square. It is the kind of artwork that appears to say nothing and yet might say everything. But what if Black Square is more than an exercise in abstraction? What if its purpose was not only … Read more
Conversation with Chat GPT Can you interpret this real life scenario in the form of Calculus. We are on the pavement of a street in Cambridge, England, the year is 1666, there is a lady in a white dress thinking about crossing the road. The road is cobbled but there is a thick layer of … Read more
So in today’s edition of WTF I’ve just seen that there is a Russian ship with 20,000 tonnes of explosives (ammonium nitrate) at anchor off the Kent coast. Remembering that there is a World War 2 US munitions ship, SS Montgomery, sunk just off Sheerness and Southend I thought I’d investigate blast radii. Turns out that … Read more
Whilst fiddling about trying to work out why a small group of men are being allowed to bring us to the brink of World War 3, I thought I’d look into the origins of the atom bomb and came upon this fascinating vignette. I was surprised that an acutely aware scientist such as Einstein would … Read more
The reason why the optical illusion/mirror image appears slightly distorted is that judging by the contemporary sketch of Salai above, is the poor boy was clearly born with a fat head.
On reading this blog from the bottom up we arrive at these four images. (Fig.1) The two on the right, the actual renaissance images versus the two images on the left being the image upside down a la Camera Obscura with a mirror placed at 90 degrees and a candle light coming in from the right … Read more
On a conveniently dark and stormy morning I want to tell you a story in two timelines with hopefully the same conclusion. It begins for me on January 28 th of this year and supporters of Just Stop Oil throwing soup over the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris. As an artist who loves … Read more