On a Roll of the Dice

Watercolor, pastel and instant coffee. Part of my Unseen Evens series this piece was inspired partly by Einstein's famous quote "God does not play dice with the universe". What may people don't know about Einstein is that although he is considered one of the founders of Quantum Physics he became very critial of may discovery's made in its name. The quote illustrates his displeasure with the disproving of determinism and the beginning of the Uncertainty principle. According to quantum physics, no matter how much information we obtain or how powerful our computing abilities, the outcomes of physical processes cannot be predicted with certainty because they are not determined with certainty. In other words nature determines its future state through a process that is fundamentally uncertain and therefore cannot be predicted. 

      This painting was mostly experimental in nature, in many ways me trying to sharpen my abstracting skills. I depicted a series of dice being trough into an uncertain space. As the dice fall they dissolve to billions of little particles scattering everywhere and intermingling with one another. This illustrated the futility of trying to account for every variable within the universe, right down to the last partial. There is simple too much to account for.