Justin Parr: "Tesseract"

Coined by British mathematician Charles Howard Hinton in his 1888 book A New Era of Thought, the term “tesseract” refers to a four-dimensional analog of the cube. In the 1962 sci-fi gem A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle launched Hinton’s concept into the fifth dimension to present the tesseract as a mysterious wormhole through the universe. Half a century later, local artist and FL!GHT Gallery founder Justin Parr sees his favored disciplines of photography and glassblowing colliding in “Tesseract,” an exhibition of “macro photographs of worlds frozen in time … coupled with glass sculpture forcing shadows and geometry on the viewer.” Since convex regular polychora and folds in the fabric of the space-time continuum aren’t always immediately visible to the naked eye, Parr invites gallery-goers to bring cameras to the opening reception to experiment with the myriad results of photographing flameworked glass.