Hyperpozition is a website. Gravity Engine is an art project. I am Jason E. Murphy, a writer and artist based in Canada.

The latest series of works of the Gravity Engine project, a series entitled Phenom, are made using a specific process:

I travel. I write.
I transform some of what I write via the use of a Java applet that I have made with the help of Claude.ai.
A Java applet that generates a loose set of instructions.
I utilize those instructions to make a sketch. A sketch that references a specific custom grid.
I utilize the sketch to render the finished art using Adobe Illustrator.
I have each piece printed to archival standard, often at scale, on high-quality paper.
Other means of rendering the work may be explored.
Each official rendering is signed by me. There are no duplicates. The purchaser owns the source .jpg for each piece.

One may enjoy the work without contemplating its deeper conceptual basis. Some of that conceptual basis has to do with the place or places in which the source text or journal entry was made. Some of it has to do with language and perception. Meaning is embedded and then deconstructed. Collected during, then torn apart after, the moment.

The title of each piece describes the more-or-less precise moment of the source text.

Gravity Engine is a project dedicated to the idea that we not only communicate but also simultaneously fail to communicate by some amount. That for every attempt to establish meaning inevitably some meaning is lost to the universe—thrown off like some invisible particle—resulting in billions of particles of lost meaning left to accumulate. Further, that it might be possible to represent this lost meaning in some way, not convey it but account for it, via abstract forms emerging (generated algorithmically) from the original attempted act of communication. Some but not all of this work has unexpectedly aligned with my project of the last eight years to better understand and communicate solutions to the environmental crisis, resulting in works addressing conservation and the debt of meaning in the universe generated by biodiversity loss. In every case the work represents the simultaneous perception and deconstruction of some moment, being, or situation.

The images displayed on this website are thumbnails only and not fully representative of the finished work.