I have had many experiences both personally and as an artist that have paved the way for the development of my visual concepts.
As a sophomore at Stanford, I was hired to be a scanner for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center which at that time ran for 2 miles underground. It was an amazing experience going on a tour of the Accelerator, seeing the place where atoms were smashed together to create subatomic particles.
Even better, I had the opportunity first hand, as a scanner, to review the film of the experiments. We were studying the "muon" in 1974. For me the beauty of the microscopic universe was incredible. The quantum unit is a particle that is viewed as an event (process). The muon, like all quanta, reveals itself a curvilinear events displaying beautiful patterns of light. And, it is these subatomic "particles" that form the basis for our "reality."
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