Ryan Geraldin

Generational Relay

100 x 100 cm - Acrylic on Canvas - 2024

In yet another complex piece of art, Ryan Geraldin evokes a harmony of imageries united by the aptly leading title. On the forefront, the pipes parting and converging hiding the minor lines that still protrudes within the major, visually conjuring electromagnetic relay; components that control circuits inside using an electrical signal in order to securely allocate power to a system per requested by received signals.

Highlighted by silver and gold accents are the machines and organic shapes latched onto & operating within said system. As per definition of the word, a “group of people or animals engaged in a task or activity for a fixed period of time and then replaced by a similar group” is reminiscent here.

By analogy to a relay race where a baton is passed from one runner to the next, a generational relay paints the transfer of knowledge, skills, or values from one generation working hand-in-hand to the next, happening irrespective of the preoccupying rat race ever-present on the surface.