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The Participatory Universe
Quantum Mechanics suggests that we belong to a participatory universe. Here, observers do more than just witness events, because their very presence determines how a quantum event manifests itself. Properties are a direct result of observation, while uncertainty becomes an inevitable companion of proof. This twist on logic, coupled with a disturbing lack of observable phenomena, leaves those who need visualization looking everywhere, and often finding art to be the answer.
Photography presents itself as the finest modern connection between art and physics. Not only as the historic tool of science, but as an observation-dependent art that simultaneously embodies opposing ideas of accuracy and skepticism. It was these concepts that I kept in mind when I began making this work. It is a means to connect the scientific concepts I admire with the visual metaphors that I craved. The images are approached as observations, immediately affected by the participation of my exploring character, and later dissected for further meaning with textual and graphical elements. This exploration questions limits, boundaries, and received assumptions in order to present the viewer with a unique view of reality that, like modern physics, uses aesthetic judgment and contemplation as its prime directive and blurs the line between science and art.