Marion Drennen
Quantum Connections
- Title: Two
- Size: Diptych 42” wide × 34” tall (each piece is 21” wide × 34” tall)
- Medium: Acrylic on Board
To evoke a sense of the number 2, this piece is painted on 2 panels. The 21” width and 34” height are in the Fibonacci Series of numbers, making their relationship approximating the Golden Ratio … the space is then divided into that relationship. The lower portion has strips of space that are broken down into Fibonacci Series dimensions also. The 2 large black dots were the Glyph used by the Mayans to depict the number 2. It is important to retain a sense of humor when dealing with all this, so included in this painting is this bit of silliness which reads: tea for two, couples, dos equis which is pretty good beer … 2 sides to every story, 2 sides of the bed which actually has four, as well as 2 halves in a whole, 2 ends to every length, and humans have 2 legs, 2 arms, 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 2 breasts. The 2 of Clubs is the lowest card in the deck. If you wear a tu-tu, you might dance a pas de deux. 2 wings on a bird. 2 tusks on an elephant. A 2 is necessary for the concept of opposites. It’s the first even number.
Words for Number 2 in different languages used throughout the painting:
- Ancient Greek: duo
- Anglo-Saxon: twegen
- Aramaic: tareyn
- Armenian: erku
- Avestan: bae
- Baltic: dy, dyj
- Breton: diou
- Chinese: er
- Danish: to
- Dutch: twee
- English: two, distich, deuce, double, doubleton, duet, duo, pair, twain, yoke, binary, brace, couple, couplet, duad, dyad, span, twosome
- French: dau
- German: zwei
- Old High German: zwene
- Gothic: twai, twa
- Hebrew: bet
- Italian: deux
- Indian: dvi, ashvin, yamala, yugala, netra, bahu, yama, qulphau, paksha
- Japanese: ni, putatu
- Korean: tul
- Latin/Roman: dos
- Lithuanian: du, dvi
- Oscan: duo, duae
- Old Erse: dau
- Old Icelandic: tveir
- Old Saxon: twene
- Polish: dwa
- Romanian: do
- Russian: dvau, dva, dvi
- Church Slavonic: duva, duve
- Sanskrit: dvau, dva, dvi
- Scots Gaelic: dwy, dau
- Spanish: doi, dos
- Swedish: tva
- Thai: song
- Tokharian A: ta
- Tokharian B: wu, we
- Welsh: dow