The ellipse is an archive of flickering archaeological time durations in the proximity of the second. Each one of the light colours represents a relic of time unit within the realm of the second. The fickering lights are arranged into an a ellipse, a symbolic section of a light cone: the three dimensional representation of an instant in four dimensional spacetime. The work is an invitation to understand time as ever evolving in both the past and future.
Atomistic is generally shown in dialogue with a sound work, mainly Neocortex.
Neocortex is a sound piece explores the illusion of auditory continuity and the phenomenon of spoken language becoming just sounds. Auditory stimuli are perceptually organised, for sounds are either heard as a whole or divided into individual components and made into streams. Neocortex explore this neurological phenomenon and take advantage of the glitches in our auditory system, leaving it undecided on which components of the sound should be joined together into a continuous stream or perceived as discrete units.
Both works deal with ideas about the perception of time continuity and its division into smaller parts. Each of them, however, engages another of our senses. One is a polyrhythmic arrangement of flickering lights, an impression-evoking visual work; the other is a slow-motion noise composition, an auditory experience. It is by combining the two in space that a multi-sensual experience is triggered. The two artworks influence and complement one another: The auditory stimuli from Neocortex mislead our visual perception: sometimes the lights seem to pulsate differently.
Sometimes other artists and musicians are invited to perform within the frame of the ellipse.