Quantum Subconscious

Black-and-white ink illustration of a cropped human face with eyes gazing upward toward a radiant opening in the sky, beams of light breaking through clouds and stars above, framed by repeating ornamental borders, evoking consciousness, revelation, and cosmic inquiry.

Quantum Subconscious presents a cropped, upward gaze rendered in stark black-and-white ink, evoking both revelation and inquiry. The eyes—fixed toward a radiant, unknowable source—function as a threshold between inner perception and cosmic structure. Surrounding beams, clouds, and repeating ornamental borders suggest a schematic space: part vision, part diagram, part devotional map.

In a continued homage to Paul Laffoley, this work engages the logic of the schematic and the infographic—not as tools of explanation alone, but as symbolic systems for navigating consciousness. The image emerged through a process of subtraction: layers were peeled back, details removed, and forms simplified to clarify intent. This act of abstraction—of removing to reveal—has become central to my thinking, mirroring both artistic editing and scientific distillation.

The work also marks a bridge between my private studio practice and my scientific communication at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. In both realms, I am driven by research, learning, and the challenge of making complex, often invisible ideas perceptible. Quantum Subconscious sits at this intersection, where intuition meets structure and vision becomes a tool for understanding.

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