Its has been quantum overload lately. Quantum design, quantum mechanico, quantum sports and the list is long. And there will be the quantum artist. But artists has always been quantum, like a mystic is quantum, like spirituality is quantum (like religion is dogma). The artist unknowingly or knowingly will eventualy find himself in the quantum space. That is the path of the process and if ‘Truth is ‘a pathless land’ (J. Krishnamurti) then the different types of art is a pathless process to the quantum space: consciousness or the quantum field. ‘First, consciousness is the ground of all being, and all objects of our experiences (of sensing, thinking, feeling, and and intuition) are quantum possibilities for consciousness to choose from’ (Amit Goswami – quantum physicist). The artist lives in this quantum field and makes his art. The quantum field, that universal database, contains all that is known AND unknown. In quantum mechanics, nothing actually exists UNTIL IT IS OBSERVED. When an artist chooses to manifest his observation in his painting say, he creates that reality, not only for himself, but for all those who tries to understand his art. An aura exists around his work, his thinking. But the artist has the choice to choose from the known or the unknown from this quantum field consciousness. The ‘front line of art’ moves forward only when he works from the unknown. The ‘new’ add to the old world and enlightens it with a discovery. ‘If we choose what is known, what is conditioned in us from prior experiences, we are choosing from our ego-consciousness.’ (Amit Goswami) You can see how the Self can drive itself from a single place in consciousness producing work that is already known. Remember, nothing actually exists UNTIL IT IS OBSERVED but you keep producing the same observation over and over again. Collectors require this of an artist to make sure their invesment will make a profit. Hence the whole art space, that frontline of art remains ‘stagnant’. ‘Looking for the new in the quantum consciousness requires quantum leaps (movement from point A to point B without going through intermediate steps), nonlocality (signalless communication), and tangled hierarchy (casual relationships of circularity)’ (Amit Goswami). Remember the mystics did not need the jargon to find the Truth. They did it only through observation. And the mystics got there before the scientists found themselves trapped in the quantum net. Only one-pointed observation is required. And this is the main tool of the quantum artist who works in the unmanifested quantum field manifesting the NEW through observation.
Siri Perera