The entire rationale of this artwork, was based on the idea of divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is the ability to see lots of possible answers to a question or even to see different possibilities and outcomes that’s why this artwork is not based on one idea, but rather is a combination of many different ideas, all put together into a science exhibition that takes place in Vanier College. To start of, the science exhibition takes place at Vanier College but it takes place at both the morning and the night. In one of the windows ( left ), it is sunny outside and its in the day time, also note that the digital clock above it shows he time as 2:35 pm and in the right side window, it takes place in the night at 10:06 pm, shown by the analog clock above the window. This is impossible in real life but in this artwork it is possible. It is inspired by Rene Magritte’s ‘The empire of lights’ where it is both morning and night in the same painting. The next part of the artwork, is the painting of a tornado. It is also inspired by Rene Magritte’s famous painting of ‘The treachery of images’ which shows a painting of a pipe and says, this is not a pipe and in this case, it shows a tornado and says in French, this is not a tornado. The next painting is the painting of the dove which appears to be coming alive and into the room. It is partly in the picture and partly coming out. This is impossible but possible at the same time as this artwork shows that it is coming to life. Attempting the impossible is something that is possible so this dove should be able to come to life. The next artwork is the board on the top which says the art ‘in’ science project and the words ‘art’ are written in science to illustrate this. Although it may look like just a sign, it is in fact a reference to the fact that in reality, there is art in science. Building robots and creating complex machinery is all just a different form of art. The ability to combine different pieces of metals together and then just by adding a little gasoline, making the metals move is for me art. The next painting is in reference to what created science and art for me personally. I am a Hindu so I chose to draw the sign ॐ which is something that represents my religion and I drew what an atom would look like around it to show that religion and science can work together to create something beautiful, something like art instead of fighting like they have been for many centuries. That is also there to show how the universe was created, if I had shown parallel worlds, I would have shown in one the big bang theory and in another, the Darwin theory but due to time constraints, I chose the one that I believe in. In the middle of the painting, there is a doorway. It says ‘Drooawy to prllaeal uinevsres’ which is something cool that I found while searching for this project. It is a study that shows that if you have the start of a word and the end of the word with all the letters of the word that are in the middle mixed up, the human unconsciousness will identify the word even if its spelled wrong. It actually says ‘Doorway to parallel universes’ which is what this artwork was based on originally but then I changed it to what it is now. The doorway itself is also a different doorway, it is a sort of optical illusion combined with Magritte’s ‘surprise answer’ where the doorway which is usually used to keep put people is now being used for something else. In this case as a pathway to another universe. On the tables below, there are many different famous experiments. On the far left is the double slit experiment. It is about the quantum theory and the very idea that electrons can change their directions when being observed fascinated me, so I had to include that in the experiments. In this experiment, the electrons act as a wave and it appears as though no one is watching. The next experiment is the simple prism experiment and it shows the duality of both waves and particles in the electrons. White sun light from the window is emitted and then it goes through the prism and becomes the visible electromagnetic spectrum and there is a eye there, which observes it. This eye is not only an observer but it also is inspired from Magritte’s portrait, ‘The observer’ where an eye is always watching you continuously. Note that the eye only watches the prism therefore the other experiments and artwork are not being observed and therefore it doesn’t change the outcome of what happens in the artwork. Then the next experiment is the famous Rutherford’s gold foil experiment where particles are shot into a gold foil and then Rutherford found out that some of the particles bounced off while most when through straight and with that he found out that most of the atom is in fact empty space. The next experiment are some of the experiments I did when I was younger and those experiments are what made me decide that science was going to be in my future. After doing those experiments, I loved working with chemistry and physics so I decided to take pure and applied and for me, its as important as the other experiments on the other tables. So this is why I chose to do this artwork. It is a combination of all the different aspects of chemistry and physics recreated in the form of art. This is what education is about, showing creativity and imagination, opening a world of possibilities.



