This final painting from the original landscape series examines the abstract quantum duality at the heart of our understanding of reality which represents for me a completely mental relationship with nature. It is a benign opposite to where the series started with destructive human activity. It ironically completes the series by coming full circle to contemplate the same science that gave us the atom bomb test depicted in “trinity“.

The text and linear grooves carved into the surface poetically relate the paradox that light can be described and observed as a particle under some circumstances and as a wave in others. The reality of existing in different states was represented metaphorically as a Lake Huron landscape in which ice masses on the horizon towards the end of the melt-  in contrast to the rippling open water which lies between it and the viewer onshore who looks out across the lake.

water

2001
acrylic on canvas
30in x 90in
This painting is available for purchase.