JUST BECAUSE WE CANNOT PROVE IT EXISTS DOESN'T MEAN I CANNOT PAINT IT

Just Because We Cannot Prove It Exists Doesn't Mean I Cannot Paint It Oil on linen 50 x 50 cm

 

 

You ask:

 

What is she talking about?

Just Because We Cannot Prove It Exists Doesn't Mean I Cannot Paint It

 

I am talking about:

 

THE

 

MULTIVERSE!

 

 

I first read about the theory of a Multiverse a few years ago when I read Prof Martin Rees's fabulous book Just Six Numbers. He wrote, '...the ultimate theory might permit a multiverse whose evolution is punctuated by repeated Big Bangs; the underlying physical laws, applying throughout the multiverse, may then permit diversity in the individual universes.' Rees, M. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Froces That Shape the Universe, Basic Books, NY, 2000 p.174

Since reading Just Six Numbers I've read more and more about the possibility that our Universe is one of many. I love it!

I wrote a post in March this year called COSMOLOGY, BIG BANG AND THE MULTIVERSE There are a number of paintings that attempt to invite the Multiverse to revelation!

Now to my most recent encounter with the Multiverse...

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...I attended the fabulous Journey Through The Cosmos series of events here in Brisbane. I have written about the events, a collaboration between the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Prof Brian Cox and other 'super stars', Darion Marianelli, Jack Liebeck, Prof Brian Foster, in my last couple of posts Lightning and Beyond Yesterday

Brian Cox ended his last event The Physics Of Time with a statement about the possibility that our Universe exists in a Multiverse of simultaneously occurring Big Bangs. He used the term 'a fractal tree of Universes', which he has used before. I love it...and regular readers will know why. My love of the age-old transcultural/religious tree-of-life has inspired me in many ways, including to paint the idea of a Multiverse using the tree! In fact a recent post with more paintings is UNIVERSES AND TREES

My first Multiverse 'tree' painting in 2010 is called...simply...Multiverse It is below.

Multiverse Oil on linen 80 x 100 cm 2010

In Multiverse I imagined that each little portal, created by a confluence of branches forming 'holes', was another universe. I imagined it to be like a peacock's feathers. When the bird opens his fantastic plumage you are invited to share secrets.

But what about:

Just Because We Cannot Prove It Exists Doesn't Mean I Cannot Paint It
Oil on linen 50 x 50 cm?

 

 

My new painting [top] is another 'tree of universes'. Each leaf may be a universe? Each branch may represent simultaneously occurring universes? The multi-coloured circle may be a portal, as if each colour is another incubus for more universes? The concentric rings remind me of a cut tree, which is forced to reveal its age and history. The symbol of the tree certainly provides amazing fodder for my imagination!

 

In Just Because We Cannot Prove It Exists Doesn't Mean I Cannot Paint It , like my recent painting Beyond Yesterday [bottom], an underlying 'scape' is revealed beneath the top layer of paint. The 'scape' in Just Because We Cannot Prove It Exists Doesn't Mean I Cannot Paint It is predominantly red, but on closer inspection a blue branching tree-like quality is revealed [see DETAIL photo below]. For me this alludes to a multi-dimensionality. Another horizon, or multi-horizon?

 

 

Just Because We Cannot Prove It Exists Doesn't Mean I Cannot Paint It [DETAIL]

 

 

So, the title Just Because We Cannot Prove It Exists Doesn't Mean I Cannot Paint It is actually self explanatory. Whilst physics provides hints that a Multiverse is possible, scientists cannot prove it...yet...

 

I am not a scientist, so I cannot prove it either, but the theory sure does stimulate my imagination!

 

I am not a science illustrator, nor an artist who paints 'artist impressions'. Rather, I like to use symbols to navigate my way across possibility. The tree-of-life has symbolised life for eons. In the 21st century it still potently holds symbolic meaning...systems, both human-made and naturally occurring, that can be 'read' as large or small or both simultaneously. The tree invites us to dance across the Multiverse!

 

 

Beyond Yesterday Oil on linen 80 x 55 cm

 

 

Cheers,

Kathryn

www.kathrynbrimblecombe-fox.com