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Particular Reality
This collection of images is a visual reflection of the reality that surrounds us. It is inspired by reading the teachings of some of the sage mystics devoted to meditation and contemplation of the nature of mind and also by reading books about the latest theories in particle physics written by the best and brightest minds of the international scientific landscape.
Although very different in method and objectives, both ways retain an unusual and fascinating similarity in explaining the matter and the observable reality.
For scientists, what we call reality or matter is made up of subatomic particles, incomprehensible to the inexpert human mind, as their behavior and existence follows from the result of mathematical calculations rather than direct observation. The observable reality is merely an interpretation of the mind, a truth that only exists in the mind of the one who observes.
Meanwhile, mystics believe that Reality cannot be explained or understood, cannot be measured nor apprehended, and only through meditation, without an observing mind, we can experience oneness with the All, the ultimate Reality.
Carlos L.
Quantum Foam
“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated “building blocks,” but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitutes the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object’s interaction with the observer”
Fritjof Capra.
Hope
“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual; and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism”
Albert Einstein.
In Transit
“From emotion to thought, from thought to word and from word to the action: so, descending step by step, the man pulls away his truth. Arriving at the ground of existence our actions barely reflect what we felt when we were on the top flight of stairs”
Rafael Argullol.
Everything is Light
“The Kalachakra texts claim that, prior to its formation, any particular universe remains in the state of emptiness, where all its material elements exist in the form of potentiality as “space particles.”
Dalai Lama XIV.
Multiverse
“The orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics is that only one of the possibilities contained in the wave equation of an observed system goes ahead and the rest of them vanish. The theory of Everett or Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics says that all of them are done, but in different worlds that exist alongside ours”
Hugh Everett III.
Light and Matter
“The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.”
Werner Heisenberg.
Abstractions
“Any object before our senses has, apparently, a meaning and a shape intrinsic to the object. But if we dive into its nature, we realize that it does not have a permanent structure or meaning itself. Everything is subject to transformation and in the profound observation emerge new forms and new thoughts”
Carlos L.
Whimsical Light
” The revolutionary artist and the visionary scientist are both fundamentally engaged in investigating the essence of reality.”
Leonard Shlain
Reflections
“In Western scientific thought, the human soul turns outward wondering the why of the things. Why the One is reflected in the many? What is the reflector and what is reflected? Why is there not only the One? Mysticism, however, in both East and West is experiencing oneness of things, trying to penetrate beyond the many, which is in the end, just an illusion”
Wolfgang Pauli.
Shapes of Light
“Looking is not as simple as it looks”
Ad Reinhardt
Connections
“Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures”
J.L. Borges.
Like a Butterfly
“Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmans express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: Tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as “I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world”
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to new striving and suffering. And not merely ‘someday’: now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you thousand times over. For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
Erwin Schrödinger.
Something About Me
My name is Carlos L. and I was born in Madrid (Spain). I studied audiovisual communication and specialized as a camera operator and lighting technician. After graduation, I worked for different television productions, first as an assistant and later as a camera operator. A few years later, driven by my passion for the visual, the creativity, the art and my love for traveling, I ventured into the photography business. I am a self-taught photographer and I have been working as a photographer for the last 24 years.
With my camera I found the way to express myself freely and independently and develop my vocation in art and creativity. The human and travel are the sources of my inspiration and the cornerstone of my work, which has been influenced by the eastern mystical philosophy and by the latest scientific theories in particle’s physics.
My challenge is to express in images the great fundamental questions that human beings have been asking throughout history and which have pushed mankind to conquer the unknown. In fine art photography my interest focuses on transcending the shapes; in immersing the viewer into the different worlds that underlie the apparent reality; and in the human mind as the creator of millions of fascinating interpretations of the ultimate Reality.
