"Looking Through the Galleries", oil on canvas, 70x50cm, no longer available
“Energies and other measurable quantities”
Science | Art | Art | Science Project
Name of Scientist: Thomas Konrad, Quantum Physics, UKZN
Artist Statement:
Where in a system does one
object become what it is over what is could have been?
Based
on the document sent to me by Thomas and the discussion we had, I have taken the
sheet of plastic, drawn out the graph-paper-like grid onto it, and then drilled
one hole for each square (1cm sq), which represents E_1 (energy in an excited
state vs. E_0 where it is at rest).
Hence it becomes the 'idea' of the object and then the actual chair
sitting on a plinth in front to the hanging plastic sheet. Behind that is
another sheet of heavy plastic with a few random holes drilled in it to
represent how the 'idea' can change and become something else. Behind
which is a wooden box hung on the wall. It is this relationship between
whether the wood becomes a box or it becomes a chair from its original source -
a tree. A better example would have
been to use living beings but being unwilling and unable to do this I have
chosen to work with wood and plastic: organic and inorganic.
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