Michael R Evans
Michael R. Evans | |
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| Born | May 7, 1942 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Residence | Fallbrook, California, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
| Known for | Structure, the Trion-Re', "The Geometry of Light" |
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| Fields | Artist, Independent Researcher, Inventor |
Michael R. Evans (born May 7, 1942) is an American artist, inventor and independent researcher, known within the alternative-science community for his geometric investigations into the relationship between light, energy, space and time, which he calls "The Geometry of Light." He is associated with the concept of the Trion-Re', a curved geometric form he describes as a sixth basic solid, and with the patented "Space Clusters" construction system.
Biography
Evans was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a teenager he participated in the "Gifted Student Artist Program" at the Art Institute of Chicago (1955–1956). He studied business at the University of Illinois (1960–1961) and political science at the University of Miami (1961–1962), and in 2001 completed a Fine Arts degree at Laguna College of Art and Design.
He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1964, was commissioned a second lieutenant through Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, attended Airborne and Jungle Warfare schools, and received an honorable discharge in 1967.
Over his career Evans worked in the glass and mirror trade (1958–1967), held an Illinois real estate license for design and construction work (1967–1971), designed toys (1971–1976), and was a partner in the couture fashion design firm D.N. Evans (1976–1992). From the 1990s onward he concentrated on inventing, painting, sculpting, writing and lecturing. He has resided in Fallbrook, California.
Work
Evans works at the intersection of art and speculative physics, describing his practice as "a synthesis of science, history, and artistic expression" concerned with "the tension of light and energy and their relationship to time and space." He sculpts glass "Optic Clusters" intended to reveal properties of light and space.
Central to his ideas is a curved form he named the Trion-Re', which he presents as a sixth basic solid alongside the five Platonic solids. He describes it as composed of two vertices and three equal, flexible faces that enclose an inside and an outside and can spin, forming a vessel. From this form he develops "The Geometry of Light," a personal cosmological framework relating geometry, light and energy.
In 1970 Evans was awarded a U.S. mechanical patent for a construction system marketed as "Space Clusters," with corresponding patents granted in England, Japan, Italy, France and Sweden; he also designed a related toy called "Geometron." In 1969 he received a U.S. patent for a medical prosthesis that was sold to Jung Products, a subsidiary of Wilson Sporting Goods.
Evans presented on the theme "Art, Light and Physics" at the 17th Annual Conference of the Natural Philosophy Alliance at California State University, Long Beach, in June 2010. In 2012, his work was included in an exhibition of "outsider physics" curated by science writer Margaret Wertheim in conjunction with her book Physics on the Fringe, shown at the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles alongside the work of Jim Carter and Stoyan Sarg.
Honors
- Laguna Beach Beautification Award for landscape design (1984 and 1993).
Abstracts
- 2010 - "The Geometry of Light" (Read in full)
- 1999 - "Light, the Common Denominator" (Read in full)