The Quantum Theory is a concept in which I was absolutely captivated. What I find so intriguing is that it defies all common rationality. For instance, we cannot actually determine the behaviour of electrons completely. As we observe the electron, it will not always act in one specific fashion, but its behaviour changes, like if it has its own mind! So this makes it difficult for us, the observers, to evaluate and experiment with these electrons, since they are so unpredictable.

In physics for example, everything is black and white, and very distinct. What I mean by this is that everything makes sense. For instance, gravity. Gravity has an actual value that was measured specifically, and it never changes. As for the electron, it will acts differently every time we observe it, like if he is mocking us in a sense and making it impossible to identify what he truly is. And an electron was invented, or it was a hypothesis made by a scientist who thought an electron was a plausible idea. But can we see an electron? How do we know he is there? Even if we take the most powerful and advanced of microscopes, we cannot see it, like if it doesn’t exist. Us humans have made an idea or an image of what an electron is, actually making a representation of what it is truly.

For my art project, I included the idea of the behaviour of electrons from the Quantum Theory, and apply it for a phenomena we are all familiar too, the shadow. Our shadow follows us everywhere, it is part of us. What if Quantum and its unpredictability takes place, making the shadow taking abnormal forms that represent us in a different way?

For my creation, I have made an oil painting of a perfectly normal boy, standing on a street in the middle of nowhere. His shadow is reflected on the ground behind him, because of the sunlight’s rays. We cannot actually the see on the painting the actual light source coming to they boy, but we can imagine that the sun’s rays are going on him (it would’ve been extremely hard to actually put the light from the sun on the boy because oil paint is a very hard task). His shadow reflected is obviously in another form, in a devil-like, monstrous abomination of some sort. This shadow represents his personality, and how can truly be deep inside his soul. Although the boy doesn’t seem to do anything harmful in the painting, the shadow reflects his veritable identity instead of reflecting his actual physical shape.

Quantum is applied in this painting, since we can relate how this painting goes beyond common sense like the behaviour of electrons as we observe it. In my painting, the shadow has the ability to change forms, making it extremely irrational and deviating from the real world. Like my shadow, the electron can act in different fashions, therefore it is impossible for us to determine it distinctly. Although I keep emphasizing and comparing my painting to the electron, the painting can be related to every thing in science, because everything in science is practically representations that us humans have made, therefore we cannot make specific and concrete ideas based on things we observe around us.