04SOLution
The Fourth Day: Lights of Time
04SOLution — also known as TimeSound — grew out of the grand narrative of Creation that I first explored in my 2015 master’s thesis, and later became the central theme of my two-year Meisterschüler program. While that earlier work encompassed the full arc of Genesis, 04SOLution focuses on the core subject I am still exploring today: time.
This section presents visual interpretations of celestial lights and temporal structures — the sun, moon, and stars — as they govern rhythm, day and night, and the unfolding of time itself.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
< Genesis 1:14–19 >
Chronological Time – Visualizing Temporal Logic
This section gathers a body of work that explores chronological time through geometric structures and lunar rhythms. Beginning with empirical studies of the moon’s phases, the series gradually evolves into circular compositions, where time is visualized as a measurable, rhythmic, and spiritual phenomenon.
The early observational drawings—such as Lunar Phase Study (250114)—trace daily changes in moonlight, while geometric sketches like The Time_Study and Chronological Prototype lay the structural foundation for later paintings. These culminate in acrylic works on canvas, including Chronological Time (Original Version) and Chronological Time_260422, which visualize the passage of time through concentric lunar cycles, layered transparencies, and cosmic logic.
Together, these works form the conceptual and visual core of both the 04SOLution and Moon Calendar series, marking the moment where time, light, and form converge.
Kairological Time – The Revelation Within Time
This section explores kairological time – a theological and philosophical concept that contrasts with the unbroken flow of chronological time. While Chronological Time unfolds in monochrome repetition, Kairological Time reveals moments of divine encounter through sudden bursts of color, rhythm, and presence.
The works presented here reflect on God’s time, a sacred interruption within the ordinary stream of days. Paired with their chronological counterparts, these pieces were often exhibited in dialogue — black-and-white geometry set against color-infused awakenings. In these visual expressions, kairos emerges not as duration, but as meaningful moment — a point when something eternal touches the temporal.
The Depth of Time and the Holy Heptagon
This section explores the depth of time through the sacred geometry of the heptagon — a seven-sided figure that symbolizes the seven days of Creation. In my visual language, the heptagon is not just a mathematical form, but a spiritual structure that evokes the Spirit of God hovering over the waters before anything was created.
Each vertex of the heptagon holds a colored circle, corresponding to one of the seven musical tones — from 00DOminus (Do) in black, representing silence and origin, to 01REsonance (Re) in yellow, symbolizing light, and culminating in 06Sanctus (Si) in red, representing the sanctified human being.
This system mirrors the weekly cycle we still live by today — a reflection of sacred time repeating itself eternally. The works in this series use overlapping circular structures to visualize these vibrations, revealing how geometry, color, and light can carry the memory of divine rhythm.
The original 2015 drawing served as the foundation, later developed into LED light box versions in 2020 and 2024. These variations amplify the work’s spiritual resonance through illumination, transparency, and precise repetition, inviting viewers into a contemplative experience of time.
Sketching Time – Origins and Evolutions
This section traces the conceptual and visual evolution of time-based structures in my work, beginning with early experiments in circular geometry and leading into the sacred symbolism of the heptagon and seasonal spirals.
- Proto-Study for Time flows with holy heptagon, 2014 This early drawing shows a circular composition based on a fine grid background, with overlapping small circles and color-coded points. It marks one of the first visual experiments in representing cyclical time through geometry and minimal elements, predating both the Chronological and Kairological works.
- 04Solution_Weekly Cycle with Holy Heptagon This drawing, created just three days after The Depth of Time and the Holy Heptagon, introduced the overlapping circles of the seven-tone system. Each colored circle corresponds to a musical tone from 00DOminus (black) to 06Sanctus (red), forming a heptagonal system that mirrors the seven days of Creation and the weekly rhythm still embedded in human timekeeping.
- 04Solution_The Season Spring 2015 This final study on the right visualizes the division of days and nights through layered circular bands in seasonal colors. It laid the groundwork for later works like Seasonal Spirals and Time Spiral, translating solar rhythms into chromatic and geometric sequences. Here, the interplay of structure and color becomes a language of time itself.
On the fifth day, creatures of the sea and sky were formed — moving with life, they sing praise to their Creator.
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Artist Notes
On the fourth day, light was given rhythm.
It was no longer the mere emergence of light, but the placement of the sun, moon, and stars to separate day from night— to mark seasons, times, and cycles.
That’s when I began to draw “time.”
Recurring flows and cycles, the hidden rhythm of the number seven, the spiral unfolding within structure and color – each layer revealing the texture of time.
From black to silver, from violet to gold, every line and shape became a pulse of time.
These drawings were not simply about the passage of time, but became maps of sacred intervals, divine pauses and resonant beats within the unfolding of creation.