Head on down the highway: Oneness

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Oneness

"Oneness" 6x6" oil on canvas panel

"Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe."

— Erwin Schrodinger

In this Daily PaintWorks challenge, the instructions were to look at the photo below and choose one word that describes the feeling you get and to render that feeling in a painting.

I chose the word "Oneness" because although every element in this scene on the surface may appear unique and unrelated—be it land, tree, mountain, water, sky, or figure—quantum physics tells us all life, energy, matter are all connected.

“The quantum field is the web that connects all life, energy, matter and existence into a single system. Everything we experience has a single interconnected source.”

Read more about Where Science and Buddhism Meet: Emptiness, Oneness and Nature of Reality - Part 2 [Video] on:
http://buddhist-meditation-techniques.com/where-science-and-buddhism-meet-emptiness-oneness-and-nature-of-reality-part-2-video/?utm_source=INK&utm_medium=copy&utm_campaign=share&

In order to capture this feeling in my painting, I first primed the canvas with a unifying wash of red. I decided to make gray the predominate color since gray is a mixture of all three primary colors red, blue and yellow. Then I used the gray in different values and combined small amounts of it with the other colors used in the painting. I also tried to keep the brush strokes as uniform as possible. I wanted all the different elements to reflect a commonality. Like pieces of a puzzle they all needed to fit together and connect atop the tinted background.

There is an underlying silence and unity at work here can you hear it?

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nancy

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