Opposites are not
in conflict.
They are in conversation.

The Unity Pixel is a geometric form of Brant Hindman's original design — a shape that cannot be fully described as either convex or concave because it is both simultaneously.

Turn it one way and it appears to reach outward. Turn it another and it folds inward on itself. The form does not resolve: it holds both states at once.

This is not a visual trick. It is a structural proof. The Unity Pixel demonstrates geometrically what the Living Duality philosophy asserts philosophically: that apparent opposites — inside and outside, particle and wave, self and world — are the same surface, differently observed.

The Unity Pixel is the atom of the system. Every sculpture in the collection is a different question asked of the same answer.

Physics has long sought a unified field theory: a single framework that explains all four fundamental forces — gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force — as expressions of one underlying field.

The Living Duality collection is a unified field theory in physical form. Not a metaphor for one — a demonstration of one. Each sculpture is a different perspective on the same geometric principle. Different questions asked of the same answer.

The formal basis is Brant Hindman's published research into the flexagon and polytope geometry: mathematical objects that encode the reciprocal relationship between dimensional states. The flexagon — a form that appears to have more faces than a flat surface should — is the mathematical archetype of duality itself: more inside than outside, more outside than inside, depending on where you start.

This is the geometry of coherence.

Western philosophy has struggled with duality since Plato separated the ideal from the material. Eastern philosophy has known since the Tao Te Ching that yin and yang are not opposites in conflict but complements in motion.

Living Duality is not a synthesis of East and West — it is a geometric proof that the question was always already answered. The apparent duality — of matter and spirit, of self and world, of inside and outside — is a feature of viewpoint, not of reality.

Brant Hindman's training at Naropa University — at the intersection of Tibetan Buddhist contemplative practice, Jungian psychology, and Western science — gave him the vocabulary for this claim. The sculptures are the proof.

This is not resolution. It is recognition: the discovery that what appeared to be two things has always been one thing, observed from two positions.

Every sculpture in the Living Duality collection exists in two dimensions simultaneously: the physical and the digital.

Select pieces carry embedded augmented reality experiences — digital layers accessible through the Living Duality app that extend the sculpture into a fourth dimension visible only through the device. Rotating hypercubes. Animated field lines. The Unity Pixel propagating through space.

This is not a feature. It is a philosophical statement. The AR layer is the proof of the sculpture's central claim: that there is more inside than outside, more visible than immediately apparent. The digital dimension is the duality made literal — a second reality that coexists with the first, accessible to those who know how to look.

Brant Hindman founded AR Hero — a studio bringing augmented reality experiences to physical objects — as a parallel career to his sculpture work. In the Living Duality collection, the two converge: the physical and the digital become the two faces of a single form.

The living duality principle operates at every scale simultaneously. From the Pixie — small enough to hold in one hand — to the Time Matrix — thirty feet tall, built for the Burning Man playa — the same geometric relationships govern every piece.

This is not coincidence. It is fractal self-similarity: the property by which the structure of the part is identical to the structure of the whole. In mathematics, this is called scale invariance. In physics, it is one of the signatures of a unified field. In the Living Duality collection, it is visible, tangible, walkable.

The relationship between the Meta Matrix and the Unity Pixel — large form and small form, same geometry — is the key theoretical statement of the project. It is the demonstration that the macro and the micro are the same pattern, expressed at different scales.

This is what it looks like when a unified field theory is true.