Detail from ‘all my colours for you’, 2024. Watercolour, acrylic marker pen and acrylic paint on archival paper, 348x115cm.
‘Nothing’ is always something AND nothing.
In quantum physics, the vacuum or the void is actually full of life. It’s full of matter and anti-matter particles popping in and out of existence for a really small amount of time.
This effect is so strong that when you put two mirrored plates close together, usually less than a micron apart, in what seems to be empty space they’ll actually feel a force from the particles that are popping in and out of existence. This is called the Casimir effect.
I really love how because of quantum physics even the void is queer and lively.
