Geotron is a richly colored, fifty-minute, multi-image work of art, a triptych animated by 12 computer-controlled slide projectors. The work is inspired by the symbolic geometry of ancient wisdom combined with a nostalgia for technology as utopian. Its style is a synthesis of mathematical rigour and free imagination. The landscapes, curious machines and architectural ruins you visit in Geotron are built form the classic forms of symbolic geometry progressively generated by powers of the numbers One through Ten. Sometimes these forms confront you as designs charged with Yantric force and sometimes you are drawn into science fiction reveries by mythical architectural structures. You might find yourself wondering who created these mysterious structures aand for what ritual purposes they were used much as you might wonder about the creators and ritual purposes of Stonehenge.

Pure number and the geometries arising from pure number have always seemed to exist in a timeless metaphysical realm, the number codes to the primal architectures of space and the templates of consciousness. But as you travel through Geotron’s people-less deseerts and technological enigmas, you are given little reminders through erosion and cracking of the slow, inexorable movement of now into now into now, the impermance we call Time. In the romantic aesthetic of the ruin there is an ironic tension between timeless archetypal form and the realty of impermanence.

"Transmutation"

Will Cloughley

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