These works were first uncovered while Jas was excavating on the sunken
continent of Mu (Mraur) in Cyberspace during his expedition there in
late 1990. After careful examination they were revealed to be floor paintings
in the thirteen chapel rooms of the Palace of Liss .
Jas also
discovered that each of the thirteen paintings utilized the structure of one
of the 13 basic Mraur Glyph sets and named them accordingly.
A Mraur
Glyph is a square divided into 16 equal parts (4 x 4). There are two
positive and two negative sections in each glyph. The sum of the two positive
areas always equals the sum of the two negative areas (8). Corners of the two
positive or two negative areas do not touch.
In the
Mraurovian visual language the basic glyphs are those which contain four
aspects of glyph structure - mirror image and positive-negative reversals of
each of the two mirror images. Although the four aspects are unique glyphs,
their structure is the same. All four have the same name (or title) and are
differentiated as being #1, 2, 3 or 4. The titles of these thirteen works are
also the titles of the basic glyph sets.
It should be
noted that there are other glyphs in the Mraurovian visual language which do
not have four aspects, but only two. There are also two primary glyphs which
have no aspects, only four different points of view. Each glyph has these four
points of view, which you may consider as the cardinal points of view. These
are identified as a, b, c and d.
In this
exhibition the four aspects of the basic glyph is combined in a square maze
structure. The positive and negative areas, instead of being solid squares,
are squares divided equally into 4 triangles, two of which are positive and
two negative. The positive triangles are opposite each other, as are the
negative ones. The positive area of the glyph (and therefore the whole work)
may then be viewed as the area in which the positive triangles are horizontal.
The thirteen
works in this exhibition were originally released as a Cyberspace 'slide show'
entitled SQUARES . This release was in the form of a signed and
numbered limited edition 3.5 micro floppy disk for viewing on a DOS operating
system 2.1 or later with a VGA Monitor and 3.5" High Density Disk Drive.
Please contact the artist regarding the current availability of these disk and
to commission large scale acrylic renderings of these magnificent floor
paintings..
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