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Information can be negative
Mixed media on canvas | 90 x 60 cm 2013 Jonathan Oppenheim wrote:
What could negative information possibly mean? In short, after I send you negative information, you will know less. Such strange situations can occur because what it means to know something is very different in the quantum world. In the quantum world, we can know too much, and it is in these situations where one finds negative information. Negative information turns out to be precisely the right amount to cancel the fact that we know too much [1].
[1] Source of the quote here
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Entanglement visualised
This video was a part of the installation exhibited at the UNSW Art & Design Annual Exhibition in November 2014. The installation included not only the video, but also a three sets of sculptures made of porcelain and white stoneware clay.
Three pairs of sculptures
When you measure a particle, you can only look at one property at a time. Three pairs of the sculptures represent three different properties, or in other words, three different measurable observables. The first pair of sculptures is connected by the same weight, which represents the mass of a particle. The second pair of sculptures is connected by similar form, which represents the spin of a particle. The third pair is connected by the touch-light relationship that represents the energy of a particle. These three pairs of sculptures also represent entanglement. When we measure one property of a particle, we can see the effect on the other particle that is how we know that they are entangled.
The video
The video represents the particle that we attempt to measure from all sides, but it is still impossible: we can only see one side at a time, or one property. We will never know the indefinite state of a particle. Once we measure it, it becomes definite; it makes its transition from quantum world to a classical world. There is no way to know what it was like before we measured it. “Quantum states constantly diverge, but measurement collapses multiple possibilities into one” (Simon David Burton, 2014).
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Quantum Field Theory
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Journey
Colour pencil on paper | 21 x 29 cm, 14x21cm 2007, 2008
A journey Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Khabarovsk - Blagoveshchensk - Vladivostok in the Russian Far East smoothly transitioned to the Western part of Russia and Eastern Europe: St Petersburg - Moscow - Vilnius. Attention shifted to the Western Europe: Bradford - Manchester in the UK and Rome - Oslo. The mind demanded a unbounded exploration and transported the body to Sydney, Australia, where the real journey has only began.
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Leaving space for the mind to create
Pen on paper | 21 x 29 cm 2008
The movement of an arm left and right, stretching it to connect to the environment that buzzes with uncertainties and possibilities.
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Playing around with possibilities
Playing around with possibilities | 76 x 56cm Mixed media on watercolour paper 2013 -
Seasons
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Nature
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Still life
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Summer paintings
About July 2015…
Winter in Australia is summer in Russia. Summer associated with adventures, novelty and unexpected turns. We tend to be more open to experimentation, and the flow of events is uninterrupted by weather conditions. Living in a country where summer and winter swapped places did not stop me from perceiving July as a summer month. It is a summer month for me, because most of my life July was filled with joyful moments, long days and short nights. Perception is everything and habits rule who we are and who we want to become. The river of life, taking us from a place to place, doesn’t automatically change who we are. In order to change, we must develop habits that become part of our body and soul. If I want to perceive July as summer, I need to change my consciousness. With things like adapting to new weather conditions, it is not so important to change a mindset, but adapting to a new social order requires a serious consideration. Yet the river of life keeps going and setting its own priorities.
