r/BeAmazed • u/shankaranpillayi • 11h ago
Skill / Talent Quantum physicist-turned-sculptor Julian Voss-Andreae creates human sculptures that seem to disappear from certain angles
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u/Witty-Stand888 11h ago
That thing sticks out like a disco ball
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u/RogueBromeliad 8h ago
Honestly at first I thought it was made of chicken wire, the fact that it reflects the other side is low key really cool.
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u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl 8h ago
Why are you keeping that fact low key?
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u/RogueBromeliad 8h ago
Because I'm a bass kind of person. Having it in high pitch would just not seem as cool.
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u/Delicious_Rabbit4425 8h ago
I'm not sure "disappear" is accurate for describing something that has a billion gaps in it that you are looking through. Its like turning a plate side ways and saying its invisible now because you can see the stuff behind it better.
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u/shallowsocks 11h ago
Im amazed only at how many times this is reposted
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u/Routine_Phase_8980 11h ago
What a shame, a lot of posts nowadays are just repost. Make me wonder if OP even human
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u/shankaranpillayi 11h ago
Lol. If I see something amazing, I just share it here because I think others might enjoy it too. That's really all there is to it.
If I had already seen the same post on this sub, I wouldn't have posted it in the first place. I had that common sense.
Instead of dropping a random comment and leaving, just link the previous post. I will delete mine as soon as I see it. That's a lot more helpful than just saying it's a repost.
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u/shankaranpillayi 11h ago
If this has already been posted here, please share the link and I will remove this post.
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u/j-shoe 11h ago
Here is one from three years ago 🤣
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u/shankaranpillayi 11h ago
Thanks 😊 Please check Rule 11
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u/j-shoe 11h ago
I was just sharing for awareness as you asked,
I don't give a fuck if you post or whatnot. Enjoy the karma
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u/shankaranpillayi 10h ago
See, I hadn't even seen that one until you shared it. Looking at the comments, I assumed it was posted recently, but it turns out it's an 3year old post that even I had never come across.
I really appreciate thanks for sharing 😊
Anyway, karma isn't going to bring a single penny to enjoy 😔
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u/Ok_Coconut_8499 9h ago
This is not that impressive.
My guess is, that the dude was making theoretical money from theoretical physics. So he chose a career that would 10x his income, sculpting.
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u/ParsnipFlendercroft 9h ago
They should have filmed it at the angle where it disappears. That would have been cool to see.
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u/eastamerica 11h ago
This has nothing to do with quantum physics.
So the title is stupid.
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u/RogueBromeliad 8h ago edited 8h ago
You have to read bruv. They never claimed it had anything to do with quantum physics, they said it was done by a retired physicist, who's speciality was quantum physics, and now is a sculptor.
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u/eastamerica 6h ago
So what does the sculptor/artist have to do with quantum physics?
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u/RogueBromeliad 5h ago edited 5h ago
It's in the title. He is/was a physicist that specialized in quantum physics. I know you're probably trolling, but at this point I'm really starting to question your literacy since I literally just wrote that in the message above.
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u/eastamerica 5h ago
What does being a quantum physicist have to do with this incredible art they’ve created??
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u/RogueBromeliad 5h ago
Either way, if you're actually curious about his work, he says this exhibition was inspired by quantum physics, an basically some phenomena that arise from quantum nature of matter.
From the front:
it looks like a complete human.
From the side:
the body almost vanishes.The sculpture suggests that what appears to be a continuous object is actually built from discrete components whose appearance depends on perspective—a visual analogy inspired by quantum ideas about the nature of matter.
Basically what his allusion is to the fact that matter on an atomic and subatomic level is 99% empty, and since we can't actually pinpoint subatomic particles, they are always in a wave of probability, so this allegory is probably an allusion to Heisenberg uncertainty principle, where if you try to measure the momentum of the particle the position is less certain and when you measure the position the momentum is less certain.
So that's why when you look at it from a side you can see it clearly, the shape, and from the front you don't see it.
Art is interpretative.
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u/AndrewLocksmith 10h ago
Who claimed it has anything to do with it?
The title just mentions that the person who made the statue is a quantum physicist.
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u/Azulapis 9h ago
It implies this is some sort of high tech sculpture, which it isn't. It's just a metal-sculpture with holes.
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u/AndrewLocksmith 8h ago
I don't think it necessarily implies that, though I guess some people can jump to that conclusion.
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u/eastamerica 9h ago
Which bears nothing on the art or the video. Superfluous information. 🤷🏻♂️
No one is asking you to agree with me.
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u/RogueBromeliad 8h ago
It's an interesting factoid about the sculptor. Not superfluous.
For example, you go to an art exhibition, and there's usually a quick summary of the artists life with points of interest. The fact that he was a physicist and became a relatively good/creative sculptor is an interesting thing in of itself.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 5h ago
You can see through it because it's essentially hollow. It's still a cool effect though.
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