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JAMES MINdEN

Lives and works in Portland, OR, USA

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A few of years ago I would never have imagined that I would say that my that, while I am really not a scientist and never want to be one, as a painter
work has been inspired by quantum physics, but it has. It started with a I do share some interests with physicists. we are both interested in the
comment made by a person, who I assume was a scientist. This person was nature of physical reality. Light, for example, stimulated the earliest theories
in a gallery and saw my paintings. They asked the gallery assistant if I was of quantum mechanics and has been equally stimulating to painters. Both
a scientist. They said that there were “diffraction patterns” in my paintings. deal with observations, complementarities, and uncertainties. quantum
when I was told of this I couldn’t help but wonder how I could be making physics, however, has taken ideas from theoretical possibilities almost one
these images if I didn’t know anything about them. My curiosity led me into hundred years old to recently tested proven facts that have shown, among
the strange world of subatomic particles and quantum physics. I realized other things, that observation is affected by both the observer and the
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