QUANTUM PHYSICS AND PAINTING

There are many ways Quantum Physics has affected our view of reality.

 

Quantum Physics showed us that there was uncertainty in our ability to make precise measurements. We learned that the act of measuring was part of the measurement, that the measurement determined the outcome.

 

We found out about conjugate attributes which you could only know one of. We couldn’t fill in the blanks of our Newtonian equations, and we heard that Newton was passé.

Finally, all deterministic hope was shattered when we found out that all existence was the result of probability waves.

 

We had to learn to accept a picture of the world in which inexplicable forces of nature have a random effect on the behavior of particles.

 

Although these observations only pertain to the micro- and macrocosmic levels, nonetheless, our cause-and-effect manner of thinking has been challenged to encompass such unimaginable possibilities.

 

And we realize that reality is not as homogenous as it seems.

 

For a painter, this non-linear way of thinking can open new possibilities in the representation of spatial relationships between objects and translating three-dimensional reality to a two-dimensional surface.

 

We realize that there is no absolute space, that space is warped and changed by objects.

There is no homogenous, coherent space in a picture either.

Objects can be in any position possible.

For a painter, the possibility of simultaneous space levels is exciting and opens up new dimensions in the abstract interpretation of reality.