When the art and science project was assigned, I felt curious and interested because for the first time I can express my scientific knowledge by using an artistic approach. This project challenged my capacities in a sense of am I able to incorporate a scientific theory through means of art? My artwork is a painting painted on canvas that expresses two main ideas that link the wave-particle duality of light and Rene Magritte's "Reproduction Forbidden." My work is focused on these two because they both relate indirectly with a so called action of "reflection." The setting of my painting takes place in the early 18th Century when Quantum Theory had not been yet conceived.

When observing my painting, the wave-particle duality of light isn't noticeable as much as Rene Magritte's "Reproduction Forbidden." This was intentional. The duality of wave and particle in light was discovered during the development of quantum mechanics. This discovery affirms that light can be described by two properties; wave behaviour and particle behaviour. Electrons also have the wave-particle duality. This shocking discovery defies common sense because this sort of realization can only be done when thinking beyond the frontiers of knowledge as presented at the beginning of the 20th century. It's difficult to justify the wave-particle duality because it defies common sense. The fact that it's so hard to see this influenced me to make this idea less noticeable. I painted a tall candle light holder, holding 3 lit candles. The lit candles are used to illuminate the room since at that time electricity was not discovered. The light from the candles comes in the form of both particles and electromagnetic waves.

Rene Magritte's work is groundbreaking and completely defies our perception. His painting "Reproduction Forbidden" is a representation of what mentioned above because it distorts our expectation of the mirror's function. My art work displays a mother's back facing a vanity mirror and her daughter on the right facing the mirror. The daughter will realize with great shock (big mouth) that her mom's reflection isn't her behind but her face. The little girls frighten face symbolizes how quantum can cause these reactions when encountering something so out of the lines and so controversial for scientists.

I feel that my artwork resulted beyond my expectations which I'm very proud of myself. For me, Quantum Theory is an endless interrogation point, you don't know what you see is right, wrong or maybe it lies in between. Albert Einstein mentioned, “the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."