The essays below comment on various aspects of contemporary photography and its relationship to science and society. Over the past few years he has also been engaged in dialogues with Jungian analysts on the relationship between creativity, inner space and the way both artists and therapists engage in their work. Art is also questioning the whole notion of representation and the limits of what can be said or shown. The Participatory Universe Cezanne stressed the nature of time and participation in the act of looking and making- sitting beside the river bank he would move his head and note the way the scene changed. Quantum physics emphasized that we live in a participatory universe in which acts of observation disturb the cosmos.
Artists are also interested in works which stress participation on the part of the viewer.
Much contemporary art is about process and removes emphasis from the finished object or gallery installation. Likewise physics is changing its focus from objects in interaction into pure process. Liminality Much art is to do with edges, limits, that which is just coming into manifestation, or vanishing, evaporating, evading capture. In this way art resonates with the quantum world in which existence is fleeting, a constant process of manifestation and annihilation. After sixty years of uncomfortable co-existence quantum theory and general relativity remain to be united in a meaningful way.