Jin Meyerson Ascendant 2.0, 2023

Ascendant is from a new body of work related to the artist's interest in programming. Drawing on his fascination with the future, he has explored the concept of "retrocausality" present both in parapsychology and quantum physics. Retrocausality refers to the notion of backward causality, that is, effects that precedes its cause in time and therefore impacting an earlier moment.

For Ascendant Meyerson employed a dual reflective image and animation program by using the scans and sources of his earlier séance paintings to create videos of their potential futures. To the artist, painting already inherently partakes of this effect, as Meyerson notes: "The inherent time consumption of making a painting, reverses the flow of narrative or linear time, pulling the forecasted futures back into the present." A first cycle of paintings entitled Descendant were defined solely by curated glimpses of the videos. This new series, entitled Ascendant, engages with a superimposition of editing on top of the videos and adds additional layers of perception.