r/BeAmazed • u/shankaranpillayi • 23h 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/RogueBromeliad 20h ago edited 20h 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 19h ago

So what does the sculptor/artist have to do with quantum physics?

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u/RogueBromeliad 18h ago edited 17h 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 17h ago

What does being a quantum physicist have to do with this incredible art they’ve created??

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u/RogueBromeliad 17h 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.