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Naturalium Gold

The energy contained within a single flower would light a candle for a billion years.

Anaglyphic series with 24k gold leaf

Framed fine art print with hand-applied 24k gold leaf
315 gms archival fine art paper

Signed/numbered in pencil on the reverse of the print

Embossing seal on the front

Authentication certificate on the reverse of the frame backing 

Size: 60 x 60cm

From a hand-finished series of 25 with 5 Artist's Proofs

Each print is supplied with two pairs of anaglyph glasses

Naturalium 1 - Slipper Orchid - Gold anaglyph edition
Naturalium 2 - Gloriosa Lily - Gold anaglyph edition
Naturalium 3 - Passion Flower - Gold anaglyph editionnaglyph Edition
Naturalium 4 - White Bird Orchid - Gold anaglyph edition
Naturalium 5 - Bearded Iris - Gold anaglyph edition
Naturalium 6 - Moth Orchid - Gold anaglyph edition

A circle represents eternity, unity, and the infinite. It has no beginning or end, making it a powerful symbol of wholeness and perfection. The circle is also associated with the divine, the cosmos, and spiritual enlightenment. These qualities reflect the quantum nature of reality.

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​​A square, on the other hand, is often linked to the material world, stability, and earthly existence. Its four sides symbolise the four dimensions of space and time, and the balance of physical elements. These qualities reflect the classical nature of reality.​

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​A circle within a square, therefore, symbolises the balance between these metaphysical and physical domains.

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Gold is a universal symbol of beauty and perfection, and emphasises the balance between these heavenly and earthly realms. It also wraps, protects, and defines the spatial dimensionality of the valuable entity contained within.

 

The subject is rendered as an ‘anaglyphic’ image. When viewed through red/cyan anaglyph glasses, a 3D sculptural entity will be seen floating in the 3D volume defined by the 2D gold plane.

ARTIST STATEMENT: Everything we know and can sense is made of pure energy. Atoms, that make up substance and thus the reality that we see and feel, are formed from only three discrete components, up quarks, down quarks and electrons. What’s more these three entities are not particles as we have come to think of them, but vibrations in underlying energy fields that fill the entire universe. These vibrations coalesce to become atoms and thus the substance and the reality that we perceive. In other words, objects are made of a fusion of many trillions of little pockets of pure energy created by energy fields that pervade the universe and connect all things together. Naturalium seeks to convey these metaphysical concepts by depicting intentionally simple but dimensionally elegant natural forms contained within and bound by 3D space. Rendered as a three-dimensional holograms, lenticular light sculptures, and anaglyphic images, it is not difficult to imagine each form, and thus all substance, and hence reality itself, as a localised concentration of energy. A single flower contains more than a trillion trillion atoms, and the energy contained within the flower, if harnessed, would light a candle for a billion years. All the flowers I shoot are grown my me and some have taken as long as five years to bloom. They are recorded just after blooming when they are at their most vital, as living entities.

It is not possible to appreciate the sculptural and luminous quality of Rob's work in two dimensions, such as on this website page or in an exhibition catalogue. It is highly recommended that you view the work in person.

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