deidalos_dive
is a steganographic image that changes depending on the light condition. Myth, mathematics and perception intertwine to form a model of inner cycles between ascent, descent and knowledge.
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Title: deidalos dive steganographic image, cycle II
Description of the work (revised version)
deidalos dive is a steganographic image that changes depending on light, time and viewing position.
A painted scene appears in daylight; In a darkened room, when the image itself becomes the light source, another image emerges as a shadow appearance.
The work follows a cyclical light mode: in the second minute of the smartly controlled light cycle, the image is illuminated from behind. What was previously painting turns into a shadow play. The picture is tilting – not technically, but epistemically.
Myth and movement
In the upper left area of the picture Daidalos appears - not as a figure of the fall, but at the moment of maximum amplitude.
The mathematical terms amplitude, period, wavelength (λ) structure the image like a coordinate system of internal states. The movement of the soul is not told, but rather modeled.
The story of Daedalus and Icarus is not read morally here, but cyclically:
Height and depth, ascent and descent are not opposites, but states of the same movement.
The dive
In the lower right area the same figure appears again - this time as a diver.
Daedalus is no longer in the air, but in the dark, dense space of the sea. The flight becomes a descent. The sky to the ocean.
Here the image draws on the parable of the Pearl Diver (after Béla Buda):
The descent and emergence is a single moment –
However, knowledge only comes from repeating the dive.
The diver learns to see by staying.
The longer it is at the bottom, the more the shell and stone, surface and content differ.
The pearl is not an object - it is memory from depth.
Shadows and knowledge
When the room becomes dark and the image itself is the source of light, a play of shadows appears.
This refers directly to Plato's allegory of the cave and its epistemological graduation:
Imagination (eikasía) – shadows, projections
Faith (pístis) – sensory certainty
Opinion vs. knowledge (dóxa / epistéme) – separation of appearance and structure
Dialectics (diànoia → nóesis) – transition from mathematical knowledge to pure intellect
The shadows are not illustration, but condition:
Without darkness there is no projection, without projection there is no path to the idea.
Synthesis
deidalos dive combines myth, mathematics and epistemology into a single movement model:
Flight and diving
Light and shadow
Wave and cycle
Soul and structure
The work does not claim any truth.
It shows a path that has to be taken again and again.
It's not the fall that's the danger -
but the forgetting of the depths.