Clifford Singer
“Space Series, Composition #s 71, 73, Superstring. 2, Contrast”
Acrylic on Lexan, 36" x 72", 2007© .
“As a model -- this painting represents space and time, the singularity
of beginning and end points are of an anomaly. In the painting I
suggest the dynamics of a hyper spherical space that continually
expands the structural space and geometrical fragmentation in
space-time from a Big Bang. A hyper sphere in this case also shows how
all points and segments in the universe are interconnected, even when
they appear to be separate from one another. It is here that I attempt
to find timelessness. In space-time curvature the geometrical strain
illustrates a deformation of space. The connectivity and colinearity
within non-linear incidence geometry raise constructibility questions.
To establish a distinction that is an event localized in space and
time; that this creative event takes place at a world point, a here and
now, reflected through the assemblage of a structural space
representative of space-time in geometrical terms, is an ultimate fact.
In the art one can identify a time axis with our world line. Creative
formation, and building of these geometrical spaces serves as a
cosmogony for these images of an existing universe remain contained
within edges of the picture plane. So, pursued through painting, works
of art yielding a structural space perceived in space-time yields the
image.”
Clifford Singer, Independent artist and mathematics teacher
"As a student of the works and ideas of Josef Albers and Rudolf
Arnheim, the use of color and equilibrium are inseparable from my art.
In 1973, I acquired a copy of G. Spencer Brown's, Laws of Form which
until today remains a major reference to my work."