Quantum Sentiments presents an artificial expression of geologic process. Eroding in right angles, the piece deconstructs into scales of increasingly granular structures - starting with it’s outer cube, into smaller linear limbs, into blocks, into grains of sand, into what we cannot see with the naked eye, into atoms and particles. 

With several nearly intact sides, Quantum Sentiments, appears to once have been a complete cubic object, and in partial form it alludes to a longer course of change. Seemingly ephemeral, the sculpture is a reminder of our transience. Its sense of erosion refers to natural transformation yet in its pixelation presents as an artificial imitation conjuring up sentiments of how our perceptions of reality intertwine with technology. In my work, material manipulation layers with themes on time and impermanence. Sand, in particular, can represent multiple dimensions from the delicate to everlasting. On one end sand is fragile, like formations on the beach, constantly shifting arrangement from the water. A sand castle which can be intricate and labored is a momentary form and destined to return to its loose particulate positions. On the other end, sand has endured. Though diminishing in scale it is a continuation of material, transforming over time. Sand is representative of time itself, each particle a moment, accumulating in the hourglass, moving, changing but never ceasing to exist.

Through a physics lens I see the grains of sand as particles, fundamental building blocks of the universe, organized and vibrating at scales that are incomprehensible. With vast and all encompassing questions of what and how I am reminded of Carl Sagan, in Cosmos, who captures such feeling of infinite wonder so tangibly-

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos