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.