Einstein's Dreams Painting

My new painting “Einstein’s Dreams” shifts the focus to the nature of time itself. “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” -Alan Watts "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein The pulse and blur of our human experience reveals vital traces of who we are in a time that is simultaneously past and present, leaning into the future. The ancient Greeks used two words to describe the concept of time, chronos (Χρόνος) and kairos (καιρός). Chronos refers to chronological or sequential time, kairos describes a time between - a moment of indeterminate time in which beauty or profundity arrives. While chronos refers to seconds and milliseconds as the clock pendulum swings, kairos has a qualitative aspect, time experienced as flow, moments of meaning, or poignancy. My paintings consider these two concepts of time. These artworks evolved through a series of painting sessions in which moments and colors, hours and images overlapped, merged, and combined - blurring the nature between time perceived and moment conceived. By layering paint upon paint, I build an artwork through a succession of present moments in time that often combine in unforeseen patterns. A viewer recently remarked that my paintings resemble "time travel where the molecules are not quite sure where they belong." This visual conundrum plays with the proposition of many quantum physicists that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. A few years ago in the rare book room at UCLA's Biomedical Library, I had the privilege to actually turn the pages of two extraordinary Renaissance treatises: De humani corporis fabrica (On the Workings of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius and De Revolutionibus (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres), by Nicolaus Copernicus, both published in 1543. These remarkable books combined scientific discovery and rich artistic beauty, evoking within me a conversation across time. The contemporary lecture program Categorically Not, hosted by science writer K.C. Cole ponders and provokes the relationships between the arts and sciences today. All of this has prompted my exploration of one of our era’s major scientific and artistic concerns: the nature of time. While our traditional method of imagining time as a linear construct is limiting, the recent discoveries in quantum physics creates room to expand our understanding of time Excited to let you know that I will have a booth at #TheOtherArtFair September 5-8, 2019 in Santa Monica at Barker Hangar. And I will be exhibiting at the inaugural @theotherartfair in Dallas September 19-22, 2019. @theotherartfair

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:36 W x 48 H x 2 D in

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