Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics

Emptiness - emptiness is default where everything else ‘arises from’ with an infinite amount of possibilities, the universe is a blank canvas

Atoms are 99.9999999999% (12 9’s) empty space. The force between them is what holds them and everything together. Nothing ever touches anything else, the repelling forces between atoms and inside molescules is what keeps things apart.

Which explains how blackholes are able to exist.

Duality - ALL matter has a dual nature, as a particle and as a non solid wave form at the same time, only our perceptions unify something into one entity


Interconnectedness - All elements, all atoms are made up of the same thing, just in different configurations which give them the properties that are perceivable to us.

According to quantum physics, matter in the physical sense does not exist in the first place, the universe is made up of energy;

“We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the energy field is extremely intense...” Albert Einstein

“...There is no place in this new Physics for both the matter and field, for the field is the only reality”

Again the type of energy that makes up everything and nothingness is the same, the only difference is the intensity, the wavelength, the configuration....

Duality

Development - Duality

I recently switched from an Science course onto a Photo Arts course and I wanted to use some of that scientific knowledge I had, using some of the interesting concepts from that world to plant and grow something in the arts environment I was in now. I wanted to combine these two interests to create a hybrid, a balanced project of these two opposites. Or maybe it would turn into a beast of it’s own, a Frankenstein.

The Physics community tells us that light can behave in two very different ways. As a physical particle that travels along a path. Or in a waveform, a force of energy, not an individual particle but a force that moves through a canvas, like ripples along the surface of water, or sound waves traveling through air. Two strangely contradictory theories, for a founding scientific theory. But I guess this is a common occurrence in science; most of the most fundamental questions in science are still constantly being debated.

I also started exploring this split personality idea, delving into psychology, looking into the relation between the conscious and subconscious. Looking at Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.

I think the style of my illustrations came from images of neurons, I was interested in the way they connect to each other, forming these beautiful, complex connections which somehow end up as our thoughts and memories, a network for our conscious and subconscious.

This is what was going through my head when creating these images. 

The Beast in the Nursery

This is the end result of a uni project. It actually started off quite different, but kept shifting, I'm not sure if the original idea was better now? I started off by trying to use scientific theory in this photo art project, I used the duality of light as wave and particle and tried to interpret it into this photo project. I tried to project the 'duality' theory onto a person, to do a series of portraits showing this duality in some way, creating a narrative of a split personality, or do a series of photos showing a conversation between someone and their other persona, juts like Gollum does in a scene from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Then i started to read this book on child psychology by Adam Philips, The Beast in the Nursery, which was pretty enlightening. The book is basically about the child come beast within you and the adult in you; the part of you that has been conditioned by society so it can live within it. The curious side and the realistic side. Hopefully you can start seeing some of this theory in the images above, the adult and the beast within, I tried to create this duality using the projector to mix these two worlds together, in the same frame. in most of the portrait I tried to keep the person quite calm, and and in control, being the adult, while projecting visual icons from their childhood that stood out to them, by searching google for those keywords. I think the last image with the cowboy silhouette is probably the most successful to get this across?