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Peter Halley Notion of “geometry as confinement” is parallel to the Wittgenstein’s notion of “language is entrapping”. These paintings combine the idea of Geometry and language and present the systems of the language using geometry as the visual device. Wittgenstein explained “we are flies trapped inside the bottle”, the bottle being the language. The systems presented here are confined to geometric possibilities of certain provided forms.

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