Smithe (Edition 1/15) Photograph

Portrait of street artist Smithe La Escocesa - Barcelona - 2014 High-resolution image on top-quality Fuji photographic paper covered by a 3 mm methacrylate sheet with a dibond back frame, ready to hang. Each copy is numbered and signed on the back by hand. Limited edition of 15 with certificate of authenticity numbered and signed. Smithe is a Mexican street artist who can control particles of matter with his bare hands. He wasn’t born with this gift, he developed it the day he realized that matter is mostly empty, it is in fact condensed energy. 99% of an atom is practically empty space. I say “practically” because there is no such thing as purely empty space, according to quantum physics, the space we consider empty is filled with invisible fields of magnetic energy that keep matter together, such as the Higgs field. The reason why we can’t go through objects is because the electrons on the surface of our body generate an electromagnetic field of negative energy that repels other energy fields. Objects never really touch, they are fields of energy that repel each other. So physical objects are not formed by solid matter, what keeps their particles together is an electromagnetic field. This means that 99% of our bodies is actually energy. In the same way electrons, neutrons and protons are the particles that form the matter of our physical world, planets and stars are the particles of the galactical world. Humans are microorganisms that inhabit one of these particles. The Big Bang was the moment in which this pure energy sparked into an expanded reality, setting the particles in motion. Before the Big Bang, all the matter of the universe was condensed into a single point in space with a density higher than any known element. Particles that once were together stay entangled forever. This means that all the particles of the universe are interconnected, they are part of the same original system. Energy is what keeps atomic particles together and it cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. As we saw with Mr Thoms, the material world is derived from the mind, and mental energy is a manifestation of consciousness. All the things that exist in our physical world started as an idea. The metaphysical becomes physical, mind becomes matter, material things don’t just pop into existence, they are originally created in the mind. People tend to believe that consciousness emanates from the brain but it is the other way around. It is the existence of consciousness that makes it possible for the mind to exist. Consciousness is metaphysical, it doesn’t need a brain to exist, but a brain needs consciousness in order to function. Thinking that consciousness needs a brain is like thinking that a song needs a CD to exist. A song can be recorded on 500 CDs. If we break the CD the song will continue existing, it may actually have existed before CDs were invented as a container. The song started existing in the brain of the composer as an idea. We live in a world created by another world. You can think of it as a dream, when your brain starts dreaming, a whole new reality comes into existence, a Big Bang inside your mind, a micro-universe generated in real-time by your brain. And it does such a great job that you cannot even distinguish it from the physical world, when you are dreaming, that world is real for you. Have you ever asked yourself which reality is more real? The dream world generated by your mind or the physical world created by matter? One thing is for sure, if matter is mostly empty, if it's created by entangled atoms flowing in space kept together by electro-magnetical fields, then there must be a deeper layer than the physical, a foundation that serves as the support of the material world, an operating system that makes it possible... When Smithe realized all this, his eyes came out of their sockets and his brain expanded out of his head, reaching a level of enlightenment out of reach for most human beings. Besides controlling matter telekinetically, Smithe also paints dope murals with the same hands he uses to move atoms.

Photography:Digital on Other

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:15

Size:22 W x 29.5 H x 0.4 D in

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