The subject of my residency was Change in Our Reality and over the last few days I was fortunate enough to capture and witness an amazing and profound event which was very appropriate to my residency. These dynamic natural transformations are so slow that humans cannot perceive them they are extremely small increments of change over long periods of time. We simply do not have the organs to detect change which occurs at such a slow rate however I was able to capture this change with the use of digital technology.

For a period of 2 days I had a camera pointed on my Hibiscus plant and recording an image every 80 seconds. The resulting images were compiled into a 47 sec movie showing transformation which is far to slow to detect with our normal everyday perception. These changes in reality are in extremely small increments over long periods of time, hence they cannot be detected with our eyes. I have incorporated a fractal overlay to emphasize cyclic nature of this change.

I often wonder what the refresh rate of reality is? How often it updates it’s self? I’m guessing it depend what you are looking at? Consider taking two images of the same scene say a millionth of a second apart, is there any difference in the images? If the images consist of dynamic and fluid elements like clouds, water etc, then the difference may be apparent otherwise we would consider them to be essentially the same. Reality appears to be solid, static and stable however what drives it is the phenomenon of impermanence and change.

Harminder Singh Panesar is a digital transpersonal artist who lives and works in the West Midlands, UK. He comes from a Sikh tradition and his artwork explores subjects related to the nature of reality and the mystery of life. His interest in these subjects was initiated after a deep transpersonal experience which gave him a glimpse of an alternative reality.

Singh’s work focuses on spiritual themes that include Sacred Geometry, Fractals in nature and Mandala’s. Using digital techniques his art takes the form of still images and animation. He completed a Master of Science degree in 1999 from the University of Teesside in 3D Computer Aided Graphical Technology Applications. In 2008 Harminder’s work was exhibited at the Flame Holistic Center for Wellbeing in Coventry.

He collaborated with the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology to explore fractals and stress in 2014. The following year, he worked with London based international musicians Qi-Rattan, creating visuals for spiritual music.

In 2017 his work was shown at the Ramgarhia Community Centre in Birmingham, a 3-week exhibition to commemorate the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji the founder of the Sikh faith.