I took a photo of a geometric pattern on a wall of the Bou Inania Madrasa,
a religious school from the 14th century in the city of Meknes, Morocco.
It is a legacy of the Marinid Dynasty and a marvel of Islamic architecture.
I used this photo to create my own geometric pattern.
Once I got the two-dimensional pattern down I used this as a base to create a three-dimensional city.
I took what is already there and I made a hidden world visible.
The same way nature and our society are full of hidden patterns and it is impossible to see them all.
Max Tegmark, a renowned Swedish-American Professor in Physics and Cosmology at MIT,
wrote a book called “Our Mathematical Universe” in which he posits that reality is in fact a mathematical structure.
It is up for debate if this theory is true, but maybe I can reveal a
glimpse of the mathematical base structure behind our reality.
Below you can see the process in making “World Device”
![World Device I - Dark](http://astopia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/pieter_leon_vermeersch_2015_07_31_1920_pixels_004.jpg)
Transport of the artwork in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With Stef Van Bellingen.
![Nel Bonten en Pieter Leon Vermeersch](http://astopia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_20190601_152202_1920_px.jpg)
Above: “A Ves… You Know” – Galerija Kresija Ljubljana, Slovenia by WARP, Curators: Laureline Soubry and Stef Van Bellingen
Sculpture in the Foreground “MIWEE” by Nel Bonte
This artwork is printed on very high quality German Etching paper from Hahnemühle.
The frame is a design of Pieter Léon Vermeersch and is considered to be a part of the artwork.
This artwork is the result of 2 months of work and is therefore on sale in 7 limited editions.
With frame the artwork measures 160 x 100 cm.
Email me for availability at pieter@astopia.eu