Platonic Crux

Added 1586366456 by CTE.

Painting 80x100cm, Central stencil spraypainted onto acrylic and oil backing. Contains a few silly cyphers and codes including a pigpen cypher down the righthand side, designing this stencil and then canvas took the best part of a year along with its sister canvas "Logical Nadir" and i used the time to examine societies treatment of people who advanced maths, science and the arts but were misunderstood or feared in their time. Both canvases heavily use the golden ratio, this one in particular with even any sequences done using Fibonacci and spirals aplenty, the paths of the spheres follow some with the square for the ratio made by using the height of Plato's bust. It confuses some that i used Plato to represent a series of thoughts that started by pondering the death of Socrates. I decided there was little logic in wondering what was going through Socrates mind at this juncture as . . . well . . . he was dead, so i turned to Plato and tried to understand his grief, the turmoil to his beliefs and the impact it had upon his works from that point and pondered as i moved forward in time through Galileo, Servetus, Tesla, Wilde, Turing to Schwartz among many others, while we have evolved across the spectrum from technology to morals we still rely on a short term animalistic sense of what true power is, the majority of people dont have a clue about the names, acts or lives of those in "power" who plotted and thought that they had displayed true power, thousands of years later people know the name of Socrates, his acts and work on logic set the foundation that science, computers and our modern lifestyle is based upon, the ripples he set did turn to wave, unleashing change and advancement that belie the power of our gods and their institutions. If borne in image then are we not so? How we changed? If society hadnt hounded what we dont understand we might be able to ask Alan Turing or Aaron Schwartz. The future will be built upon exploration, diversity and the power of a question, its the fools who hide behind fear to preserve false power, it deafens them to the sound of the wind, which whispers quietly should you listen a simple question - "Who the fuck is Anytus?"