Aerial views are a genre rooted in a desire to understand one's geographic location and physical environment. Australian Aborigines in ancient times created imaginary aerial landscapes showing paths to watering holes and sacred sites, while today photographs, satellite imagery, and 3D modeling ar used.
Walking down the street I imagine myself from high up or daydream of other places, all the while looking straight ahead. A cloud of places circulate inside my skull like quarks inside Hadrons- confined, unmeasurable, without structure, and unseen. And so I paint to document and reveal this cloud by way of colliding locations, just as the detritus of colliding particles in a bubble chamber leave vapor trails as evidence and proof the existence of quarks.
Consequence of collision and the possibility of being in more than one place at one time is what interests me.
Paul Klee
Joseph Albers
Hadrons
Particle Accelerator Experiments
Confinement: The further apart quarks are, the stronger the force connecting them.
Drawing as taking a line for a walk.
Colors change in relationship to others.
Quarks
Quarks can be in many locations at any one time, the definitive position being an average, or a choice made by the observer. Particles have been seen to fluctuate in and out of our world. The greatest puzzle in physics is how quantum mechanics relates to Laws of Nature above the molecular level.
- Made up of quarks, they have no size or structure, can never be seen and always exist as pairs.
- When forced to collide and fracture, the released quarks leave trace trails (evidence and proof of their existence).
- These trails are documented by photographs of vapor trails in liquid gas or as strike marks on charged wire grids.
- Persistent stray particle trails make identifying quarks difficult.
Like determining the structure of a television by looking at the pieces after it has been dropped from the Empire State Building.
Entanglement: Though spatially separated, paired quarks must be described as one.
Chromodynamics: The color force describing quark interactions.
String theory: A theoretical description of the makeup of quarks, predicting extra dimensions and a discretuum of universes.