My art work is a collage of my ideas about the quantum world. I decided to put my ideas together in a collage in order to portray the confusion about quantum; individually the ideas make sense, but how do they fit together? In my art work, I showed an atom on one side of Magritte’s door, and our solar system on the other; this is to portray how maybe quantised objects appear not only in the very small, atomic level, but also the very big. This would maybe explain why our universe is composed of 96% of dark energy and dark matter (according to the “pie chart of ignorance”); maybe we don’t know what the most part of our universe is composed of because it is filled with parallel universes. Maybe space is simply an illusion cast upon us in order to blind us from the reality of the parallel universes. This leads me into my picture of the imitation of Andy Warhol’s images using an image in different colour tones; the different emotions of the faces represents the different reactions a person can have to a given situation, and maybe each different reaction happened in that given situation in the different parallel universes. The image of the brain in the field with a background of strange worlds and parallel universes represents the fact that it is hard for humans to try to find the reality of the universe and the world around us when our brains are part of this world, so maybe they play tricks on us to preserve what we are allowed and not allowed to know; and maybe the reasoning for this is so that we do not interfere with the other dimensions or parallel universes. This brings to mind the idea of how things may act differently in the presence of an observer; if this is true, what would the world be without humans as observers? Does the earth need us as much as we need it, or does the earth want to be freed of the observer so that it can act differently? Who is the drawer? The image of a teacher pointing to a blackboard with different models of an atom imitates Magritte’s The Treachery of Images to show that “Ceci n’est pas une atome,” it is simply a representation of an atom. This is related to the picture of a gingerbread cookie and the mould the cookie was made from which portrays the perception of forms and their deceptive replicas through how Plato described the difference between the eternal, never changing form, and its imperfect representation. The picture of an electron looking into a mirror that reflects back to it the image of a wave renders the idea that electrons can behave as particles and as a wave. The image of Freud and Andy Warhol’s Albert Einstein behind Magritte’s Surprise Answer illustrates the genius minds behind the discovery of quantum, however also the lack of knowledge we still obtain, hence the reason why the door has not been opened, but smashed through. We still don’t know how all these ideas fit together, and until we can open this door to knowledge truthfully and completely, we will remain in a world of which all we know can be displayed in a pie chart of ignorance. The last part of my art work is the background, I painted the bottom corner black, the middle part navy blue, and the upper corner lighter blue; this is to represent our ascendance out of ignorance into wisdom.



