Cellular

More digital paint.

Energetics 1

Energetics 2

Pure digital paint.

“The high-energy scattering experiments of the past decades have shown us the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the particle world in the most striking way. Matter has appeared in these experiments as completely mutable. All particles can be transmuted into other particles; they can be created from energy and can vanish into energy. In this world, classical concepts like elementary particle, material substance or isolated object, have lost their meaning; the whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns.”
- The Tao of Physics, 1975

atomic photography

Scanning tunneling microscopy, courtesy IBM Almaden Research Center

Here’s a photo of impurity atoms on copper. At this level things look stable and orderly (see STM image gallery), but deeper, it’s all energy: the so-called quantum fluctuations that are weirdly influenced by humans. If you can’t tell what kind of atoms are forming in my "Energetics" paintings, maybe it’s because you haven’t decided yet.