Peter Panyoczki b. 1953
Another painting refers to Archimedes’s famous Eureka moment watching his bath water get displaced and the level rise as he entered his tub. From this simple observation, Archimedes derived his principle – the first condition of equilibrium - that a body immersed in a fluid is subjected to an upwards force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. In Panyoczki’s rendition of displacement theory, it is tears that are filling up the bath tub which aesthetically transforms. Yet there are hidden layers of meaning in the work, and only one may be the narration of the references which are at play. - Linda Tyler