‘Revelations…’ is an investigation into the Human Genome and the origins of language, through which we aim to explore the function o f memory within a religious, social and scientific context.

Finally the works will be accessible through a nationally broadcast and touring exhibition of Art works, which demonstrate the structures, functions and implications of genetics. All living creatures need to recognise food, danger and their young.

Without memory mankind would have no science, religion or speech. Memory is our consciousness. Memory springs like our instincts from our primitive self, its source akin to the emotions of rage, love, joy, sadness and pain. Emotions connect to our senses and trigger chemical reactions, which ensure our survival or destruction. Our memory is more than a mere response to past actions. Imagination allows us to project our experiences forward to our ‘future memories’.

 Memory is consciousness and our “immortal soul” may be an aspect of our physicality, a blasphemous and frightening idea. Can understanding genetics and the function of memory help us understand why all cultures have a belief system? What evolutionary function creates [or manifests in us as] a need to believe? How did it evolve? What is it? How is it made and where is it stored? Is memory secreted in the DNA of our cells or is it spiritual? How is memory connected with thought? When does thought begin and memory end?

Within our genome lie patterns, routines, dualities and complexities that we are only just daring to address, let alone understand. Theses multitudinous patterns connect us all through the ecosystem of our Planet. Similarly all cultures attach specific meaning to significant [Archetypal] or “religious” numbers and patterns. Surprisingly these appear to be echoed in our genetic structure.

 Examples, The Number 4: - 4 stations of the cross, 4 winds, 4 elementals; earth, air, fire and water, 4 Archangels, 4 limbs, 4 parts of the brain and the four protein chains which form our DNA; A, C, T and G.

Ian Stewart describes Mathematics as the “Science of Natures’ numbers”, and since Pythagoras with his

‘Music of the Spheres’, numbers have generated mystery and held tantalizing promises of power.

 The most striking numbers are 24

The number of different human chromosome types,

The number of hours in the day, and

 22

The number of karyotypes in the human genome, discounting X and Y the genders.

The number of glyphs in the earliest t recorded written alphabet, the Phoenician.

The number of paths on the Hebrew   ‘Tree of   life’.

The number of chapters in the most ‘enigmatic’ section of the Bible, ‘Revelations’.

 10

The ten points or Sephiroth of the ‘Tree of life’ each of which relates to an angelic form.

The 10 [approximate] nodes or molecules of the  ‘A’ ‘T’ ‘C’ and ‘G’

Ten digits on human feet and hands.

Our Binary counting systems.

The Ten Commandments.

And their multiples; 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 6, 8, 11,12,20 with other key numbers which link into our time and solar/planetary systems; 7 and 9.

 Over millennia, through memory we have recognized and attributed meanings to these patterns and turned them into symbols, through which we have developed systems for counting, speech and language.

Should we be surprised then that our oldest written alphabets correspond very accurately in number and symbol to those of the human chromosome?

 This ability to recognize and then act upon ‘pattern’ as well as attributing a spiritual or magical reason behind these forces has evolved globally into Archetypes and external creative agencies [gods]. Science presents us with a case for a predominantly internal ‘God’, hardwired into our genetic structure. This idea is present but largely lost in our religious doctrines due to literary translation and secular ambition through out History.