In this body of work, Javier invokes the philosophical idea of Simetria “Li,” a concept found in the Neo-Confusian Chinese philosophy which refers to the underlying reason and order of nature, as reflected in its organic form. This order or “natural geometry” is spontaneously generated in the physical world and can be visible, for example, in the textured patterns that arise in the back of trees as they grow; in the ripples of sand dunes created by the wind; in the cracks that arise in dry clay; in the undulating surface of water. The "Cydonia" works within this series relate directly this idea of “Li” symmetry, in the sense that the pieces aim to understand the underlying geometric patterns generated by “work in progress” as a parallel to those generated in natural order.
“The TEMPUS-SPATIUM series. The idea of repetition and how this concept is not real, even if it makes the same element or a gesture and repeats it over and over again, it can never be considered as equal elements since they were never created in the same sequence of time or occupied the same place in space.
When I cut pieces of paper, I put a lot of hope so that the sizes and their color are the same, but if I stop carefully and compare one unit of paper with another I can appreciate the subtle differences and the great multitude of variety of shades that they contain, despite the fact that at first glance we think that they are identical. In the same way, there is this subtle diversity when placing one piece of paper on another, each unit occupies a place in the support that cannot be replaced by another, all of which make up sequences of organic growth.”
-Javier León Pérez