17/08/2025
One dark Boxing Day in 1984, my brother got a telescope for his birthday. From that night on he spent hours at his bedroom window staring out at the night sky. I tried to take an interest, tugging at his sleeve to get a look, but to my dismay I couldn't see any of the stars he tried to show me. My brother seemed to grow even more clever and intellectual after that, and I wasn't quite able to forgive the cosmos for stealing him away.
Decades later when I watched a film about Quantum Physics, I suddenly became hooked on the exciting information I was hearing, not because I fully understood it (they say if you think you understand Quantum Physics you know nothing at all), but it piqued my imagination in a way that hadn't happened in years, maybe ever.
There are parallel, possibly infinite, universes...
Our universe consists mostly of void...
The void is not empty...
I found myself relating the equations and contradictions to what I believed spiritually in my own life. Suddenly the cosmos was Great Mystery, Source, God...
In Quantum Physics I found personal insight into my place here on Earth. I'm tiny, but not the smallest. I'm mortal and yet infinite. I am aging but there is no such thing as time...
I had a deep yearning to respond to this wisdom, this innate knowing. I wanted to create my own equations using other symbols. I started to create repeating patterns. Every day for months I would cut shapes from paper, for hours and hours at a time. Looking at the result of my work (thousands of 1cm symbols cut from newspapers stacked into piles), I felt I might be going insane.
But it wasn't a tale of cosmology I was attempting to create. I was sharing my own personal history, my autobiography, using the science of quantum physics. The very act of cutting these shapes was part of the story. This was what it meant for me to be human.
“Quantum Entanglement I”
Pen/charcoal on paper
13cm x 18cm (unframed)
Original artwork (mounted but as yet unframed) - please dm to purchase or enquire
https://www.ninacouserart.com/artworks
