Quantum Elements: Light - Space - Time

Quantum Elements

A series of conceptual artworks that investigates how light can reflect off, pass through, or bend around objects. As an organic abstraction, these are meant to engage the imagination and not accurately depict a visual reality.

I am investigating a visual phenomenon of refractory images that are explained by the Snell-Descartes Law of Refraction, a visual attribute of quantum mechanics that explains how light can bend, as well as refract and reflect. This series derives from my subsequent experimentation with lens-based source material that capitalizes on the optical properties of light being ‘squeezed’ as it bends around objects when introduced into a dielectric medium, which is a poor conductor of electrons, such as water.

This series is inspired by the earlier Light & Space (L&S) movement in Southern California, a creative synergy of science, technology and art.

The large artworks are printed utilizing emerging technologies, either dye sublimation on aluminum or on Rag Metallic medium. This series is meant to include a viewer interaction and physical participation to experience the perceptual phenomena and resulting visceral response. As a result, the images shown here do not reveal the full visual impact of experiencing the complex luminosity of the artwork, thus only a few are provided.