Flatland
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sumi ink + watercolor + acrylic + tape + graphite on paper
6 x 8 inches each
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“And once there, shall we stay our upward course? In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! Let us rather resolve that our ambition shall soar with our corporal ascent. Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eigth --”
-- Flatland, E. Abbott Abbott
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A [Drawing] is a surface defined in general-relativity as the boundary between light rays which are directed outwards and moving outwards, and those which are directed outwards but moving inwards. [Drawings] are not invariant properties of a spacetime. They are observer-dependent, and in particular they are distinct from [Paintings]. The notion of a [Drawing] begins with the notion of a trapped null surface.
-- altered text sourced from wikipedia
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In four-dimensional geometry the tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube. The tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square; a projection into further spatial dimensions.
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