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Cosmic Landscapes: new paintings 2011-2013

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these pictures explore visual metaphors for overlapping ideas drawn from current

advances in particle physics and quantum mechanics (our emerging understandings of the multiverse -- that our known universe must be but one among countless distinct environments in the larger cosmos, each built with its own set of fundamental physical laws and constants from among the 10⁵⁰⁰ possible sets that emerge from contemporary string

theory; and nonlocality -- that physical phenomena have no local reality but are rather intrinsically entangled with other phenomena across the universe); and the ancient Buddhist philosophies of emptiness (all phenomena lack any intrinsic, autonomous reality), dependent origination (phenomena are empty of independent reality because they arise solely as the result of other causes and conditions in an interdependent web extending through the universe), and impermanence (all phenomena, including us, change constantly from moment to moment and thus are empty of any permanent, intrinsic substance, self, or soul): modern physics and Buddhist philosophy appear increasingly congruent.

Barry Margolin, June 2012

[see Artist's Statement for fuller discussion]

30" x 21", watercolor on 400 lb. Arches paper

quantum entanglement in an ocean of dharma: dependent origination 3

19" x 30", watercolor & gouache on 400 lb. Arches

arising abiding ceasing 2 - quantum fluctuations in shunyata

12" x 16", watercolor on 300 lb. Arches paper

arising abiding ceasing 1 - quantum fluctuations in a gluon field

22" x 30", watercolor on 400 lb. Arches paper

though phenomena appear, they are empty/implications of probabilistic quantum wave tunneling 2

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