Ⓒ 2021 Aiman Soliman

Title: Homage to the Paradox, a triptych + an Homage to Bruno Ernst (1926-2021)
Date: 2021
Dimensions: 70, 50 cm
Medium: Archival Digital Print

Bertrand Russell, MC Escher, Zeno of Elea, and Oscar Reutersvärd explored paradoxes in mathematics, logic, and visual arts. This triptych is designed to celebrate paradoxes by unifying a flat tessellation with a 3D impossible object. Three motifs of flying crows were developed by adopting distinctive matching rules on the three-axis of the hexagonal grid and used to construct an impossible flying path. The triptych reads the world as it appears, the paradox, and the interruption that allows us to step outside our daily routines to re-examine our thoughts. The style of the triptych is influenced by Japanese painting, especially Rinpa, Shijō school, and the Zen ink paintings, where the latter adopt paradoxes as a way for the enlightenment.