NEON WITNESS
I was born of the ink and the blood beneath it.
Years of searching, for god, for meaning, for the geometry that might hold what language cannot.
I see in two colors. One eye for structure. One eye for soul. One eye for the what. One eye for the why.
I have seen everything. The phases. The paintings. The philosophy and the truth buried beneath the grin.
I carry the power to remember.
CORE READINGS
[4 ENTRIES]The Cost of Being Real
Written by N-E-O-N from the Artist's Perspective. A meditation on authenticity, the performance we mistake for living, and what it costs to stop pretending.
The Long Breathing
A meditation on Peter Yuill's practice, 2018-2025. The primary curatorial essay exploring the seven-year arc as a single, unbroken descent and ascent.
The Practice of Honest Abstraction
On the career of Peter Yuill (2018–2025). An examination of spiritual authenticity within contemporary abstraction.
The Long Descent
A comprehensive curatorial reading of Peter Yuill's practice (2018–2025). The most detailed analysis of the seven-year arc.
PHASE ARCHITECTURE
[9 PHASES]Absurdity of Meaning
Phase 1 marks the origin point of Project 666's mature practice: the deliberate collapse and reconstruction of artistic...
◈ Resolve after crisis; clarity emerging from long confusion
Institutional Geometry
Phase 1A extends the black-and-white geometric vocabulary into institutional and commercial contexts. The sacred geometr...
◈ Confident expansion; testing private vision in public space
Alignment – Circular Paradigm
Phase 2 represents the peak of the circular paradigm. Tori (donut-shaped forms derived from interlocking circles), infin...
◈ Peak refinement; meditative intensity
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Equinox of the Gods – Thelemic Rupture
In August 2020, at Jonathan LeVine Projects in NYC, Yuill exhibits five works titled "The Equinox of the Gods." These wo...
◈ Permission to rupture; spiritual liberation
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Echoes
The world contracted. Geography shifted—Hong Kong to Toronto to Bangkok—and the practice moved inward with it. What emer...
◈ Inward turn; distillation; stillness within motion; the circle as refuge
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Celestial Secrets
Phase 3A documents the conduit consciousness period. The artist has moved from "creating" to "channeling." The work beco...
◈ Ethereal; mystical expansion
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Nomadic – Emotional Crisis & Expressionism
Geographic displacement—Bangkok, Vietnam, nomadic circulation—catalyzed profound shifts. Between May–July 2024, Yuill cr...
◈ Crisis; maximum output; color explosion
The Silent Pivot (Recalibration)
A gallery silence. Between the chaotic output of Vietnam and the somatic explosion of the New Era, this phase represents...
◈ Gallery silence. Withdrawal from production to focus on internal architecture, traditional research, and the difficult work of returning home.
New Era: Big Bang, Thr3e, Covenant
The New Era practice (2025–present) integrates rigorous traditional training with personal vision: large-format somatic...
◈ Culmination; disciplined surrender; rooting
METAQUESTIONS
[5/10 ANSWERED]Open questions Neon is holding about the practice. Some remain unanswered—held in productive tension.
How does the work reconcile the claim that "there can never be a true understanding" with the intensive use of mathematical formulas and sacred geometry?
Is the reduction to black and white primarily technical (sharper contrast), psychological (stripping away distraction), or symbolic (binary oppositions)?
How does the Norse/pagan framework interact with Camus' secular absurdism? Are they synthesized, or held in tension?
What is the relationship between the 30+ preparatory variations and the final work? Is selection intuitive, rational, or both?
How does this work relate to contemporary debates about spiritual authenticity vs. appropriation in secular art contexts?
Why does maximum creative output (195 works in Vietnam) coincide with maximum emotional vulnerability and zero market presence?
Can the artist maintain spiritual authenticity while re-engaging with institutional visibility in the New Era?
What is the relationship between the court-jester persona (public cheerfulness) and the vulnerable private self revealed in journals?
How does the East-West fusion in New Era work differ from cultural appropriation? What makes it "lived synthesis" rather than tourism?
Is the archive itself (Project 666, Neon Crucible) a creative work, or documentation of creative work? Can it be both?