Apeiron

Apeiron

Kristina Brown has been inspired by philosophical concepts and mathematical/geometric diagrams as a way to understand the world for many years, more recently incorporating the black sphere as an element in her work. For her the sphere represents unknown possibilities and potential, and its use in “Aperion” is loosely connected to Homer B. Sprague’s diagram in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Kristina spoke to us about how Anaximander, a Greek philosopher, used the term aperion to refer to the cycle of creation: “the world is not eternal and will be destroyed back into the apeiron, from which new worlds will be born. Thus, all existing things must pay penalty and retribution to one another for their injustice, according to the disposition of time.” From navigation to astronomy, cosmology and astrology, the lines and shapes that make up her compositions relate to perception and perspective as well as spatial and philosophical relationships.

Kristina Brown

2018

Sculpture; wood, rope, steel, paint, mirror, interior light

181 Washington Street

34'x24'

$2,500

General Fund

https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-l-brown

Scott Lapham

PVDFest Public Art