Particle/Wave Duality Series #6. Study #1. Sculpture

The inspiration for my art practice arises from my fascination for quantum light. The abstract, often geometric mixed-media artworks illuminate the bizarre and paradoxical properties of the quantum world. This evolved from the art-based research of my art practice-based PhD, 'Making Quantum Questions Material'. Along with the recurring motifs of entwined particle/wave dualities and enfolding and unfolding orders, I appropriate apparatus used in the two-slit experiments as art materials. Mirrors, prisms, dichroic materials and diffraction grating) offer experiences of quantum peculiarities in the playful and illusory artworks. These include, superposition, entanglements, interference patterns, indeterminate boundaries and the intrinsic interconnectedness of all things. In some pieces, diffraction grating unravels the radiant colourful beauty hidden within white light—the colours are an illusion, the drawings within the works are made with black ink. Lenticular and dichroic materials in other pieces articulate quantum physicist David Bohm's holomovement (the process where the undivided wholeness underlying reality is in a perpetual process of flux and becoming). The works are kinetic and invite an active participation from viewers, colours and forms are not fixed, shifting and morphing as they move viewing angle.