The Dust Plasmons Series started on July 5th 2012 in a bungalow in North Truro, MA. While sketching with watercolors the mark making shapes unconsciously danced in repetition across the page. These works became the germinating catalyst for the concept of The Space Between The Spaces. Studying dark matter, dark energy, gravity, electromagnetic and blackbody radiation, and cosmic microwave background led to creative visualization of what this would all actually look like if ever humans could empirically see these forces at play.
The White Paintings came out of the Dust Plasmons Series’ dependence on color fields. Why are colors even necessary? Maybe there is no color whatsoever? How to execute the same concepts without color? Influenced by Robert Ryman, the challenge presented itself and the works were executed on canvas in larger scale. Using the Planck length (ℓP, is a unit of length, equal to 1.616199(97)×10−35 ) and the concept of visualizing the world at ten to the minus 35th power the paintings subtly challenge us all to try and grasp what transpires in that micro-world sometimes referred to as quantum foam. The Planck length can be defined from three fundamental physical constants: the speed of light in a vacuum, the Planck constant, and the gravitational constant. Put those in a bucket of white paint and see what happens.
Spontaneous Dynamism in SpaceTime: In physics, spacetime is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single interwoven continuum. The spacetime of our universe is usually interpreted consisting of three dimensions, and time as consisting of one dimension. By combining space and time into a single manifold, physicists have significantly simplified a large number of physical theories, as well as described in a more uniform way the workings of the universe at both the supergalactic and subatomic levels. The body of artworks that grew out of and were influenced by the fundamental idea of spacetime within the context of a spontaneous single moment. Something the Russian painter Serge Poliakoff referred to as “a silent moment.” Just that: a moment, nothing more or less.