Myth

Starting from mythology and working towards science I have been developing a series of drawings since Summer 2010 which explore my current thoughts on the connections and dichotomies of these apparently very different ways of looking at the world. The first series of drawings were shown in an exhibition at The Muse at 269, Portobello Road, London during November 2010 and are reproduced below:

Through our senses we experience the world, yet M-theory tells us our perceptions are false - space and energy form the universe, minute strings vibrating through up to 11 dimensions, creating what we perceive to be solid matter.

Our ancestors tried to explain natural energies giving them the shape we are most familiar with, our own. For them, what we view as myth was information vital for understanding their place in the world. Now we look to science to explain the inexplicable but most of us still only really grasp what we discover by reference to ourselves, our own form, our perceptions.

Will our descendents look back at our understanding and view it as myth.

 

You may also be interested in the life studies which were shown alongside these drawings, and the next series of drawings which begin to develop the figure within science.