Double Slit
Your Choice Changes Everything
雙縫實驗
你的選擇改變一切
魚目混珠
(yú mù hùn zhū)
Fish eyes mixed with pearls (disguising the false as real)
Art is created from the collision of truth and fiction.
It pours out of a photograph into consciousness, like a river flowing into the sea.
What is truth and what is fiction? Each person must decide for themselves and make a choice. Each choice progresses or regresses on the path of their journey through duality to enlightenment, changing outcomes and creating “reality”. Viewing a photograph triggers memories, raises the viewer's awareness and elevates their state of mind. Viewing two photographs next to each other recontextualizes the images, creates ambiguity and unlocks memories. To enlighten, we choose and then we might remember who we are.
The Illusion of Choice, contemplated by Plato, has been modeled by modern science's Double Slit experiment, revealing a higher level of meaning in a hidden quantum "reality”. Photons, the fundamental units of light that form photographs, exist in a state of potential and can go through one slit or another until they are observed. Is this potential an intelligence you can tap into? It's certainly not separate from the hologram -- it is waiting for you to reach the level of awareness to reach it.
The act of witnessing transforms the possibilities of a photon passing through a slit into a singular truth; it collapses the wave function of choice into the path through one slit. Taking a photograph collapses the 3-D wave into a 2-D representation of that time and space. When two images are presented, your choice makes you aware of this mechanism of the universe that generates reality. Science and AI understands these matters this way, but Art is a higher realm of the human mind.
As Stephen Shore pointed out in The Nature of Photographs, a photograph exists in physical, depictive and mental levels. On the physical level, regardless if it is a paper print or in digital form, the image has an existence and context in the viewer's mind. As a depiction, every image has flatness (since it is now collapsed into a 2-D space), a frame, time and focus. Individual images are shaped by decisions that frame not only what is seen but also what remains unseen, assuming the photographer chose to witness the scene. These decisions, conscious and unconscious, shape the essence of each photograph and are a reflection of the photographer's mind-nature. The creation of reality through thought is the quantum level and everything in the universe can transform with your thoughts because mind and matter are one and the same.
Photography is a practice of enlightenment, a meditation on the relationship between the seen and the unseen, the conscious and the subconscious. Each image is the manifestation of truth and fiction, and sometimes beauty. Two images, when placed side by side represent the Double Slit and embody the duality of choice. The images reflect different manifestations of the same objects and scenes, creating new contexts and triggering memories.
As you explore this collection, consider not only what lies within the boundaries of each frame and the interplay between the two images, but examine your own thoughts as well. Which choices will you make and how will seeing these images change your mind-nature and journey? One thought truly can determine the outcome.
When a choice is made, art, life and the universe converge, revealing the infinite potential within us all.
CK
藝術是從真實與虛構的碰撞中誕生的。
它從一張照片傾瀉而出，流入意識，就像江河奔向大海。
什麼是真實？什麼是虛構？每個人都必須自行決定並做出選擇。每個選擇，或推進或倒退，決定著個人在二元性與覺悟之間的旅程，改變結果，並塑造所謂的「現實」。觀看一張照片會喚起記憶，提高觀看者的覺察力，並提升其心境。當兩張照片並列時，它們重新定義了影像，製造出曖昧的詮釋空間，並解鎖塵封的記憶。為了覺悟，我們選擇，而在選擇的過程中，我們或許會記起自己是誰。
柏拉圖曾思索「選擇的幻象」，而現代科學的雙縫實驗則為此提供了模型，揭示了一種隱藏於量子「現實」中的更高層次意義。構成照片的光子——光的基本單位——處於潛在狀態，它們可以通過其中一條縫隙，也可以通過另一條縫隙，直到被觀測時才確定其路徑。這種潛能是否是一種智慧，你能否觸及？它當然並非獨立於這個全息宇宙之外——它正等待著你提升意識，去與之相會。
觀察的行為將光子通過縫隙的所有可能性轉變為單一的現實；它使得選擇的波函數坍縮，決定光子通過某條縫隙的路徑。拍攝一張照片，便是將三維世界的波動坍縮成二維的時間與空間的表達。當兩張照片並列呈現時，你的選擇讓你意識到這個宇宙運作的機制——它如何生成現實。科學與人工智慧用這種方式理解這個現象，而藝術則是一種更高層次的人類心智的領域。
正如史蒂芬·肖爾（Stephen Shore）在《照片的本質》（The Nature of Photographs）中所指出的，照片存在於物理、描繪與心理三個層次上。在物理層面上，無論是紙質印刷或數位格式，影像在觀看者的心中擁有自身的存在與語境。在描繪層面上，每張影像都有其平面性（因其已被壓縮至二維空間）、框架、時間與焦點。每張影像的構成，既包含了攝影師所選擇拍攝的部分，也涵蓋了那些未被拍攝的部分——這些決定不僅影響了「所見」，也影響了「未見」，前提是攝影師選擇了見證這個場景。這些決策，無論是有意識還是無意識的，塑造了每張照片的本質，並反映出攝影師的心性。現實的創造在量子層面運作，而宇宙萬物皆可因你的思想而改變，因為心念與物質本質上是一體的。
攝影是一種覺悟的修行，是一場關於「所見」與「未見」、「意識」與「潛意識」關係的冥想。每一張照片都是真實與虛構的交匯，有時也是美的呈現。當兩張影像並列擺放，它們如同雙縫實驗的物理表達，體現了選擇的二元性。這些影像展現了同一物體或場景的不同樣貌，創造了新的語境，並觸發記憶。
在探索這個影像集時，不僅要考慮每張照片邊界內的內容，以及兩張照片之間的互動，更應觀察自己的思維。你將做出什麼選擇？這些影像將如何改變你的心性與旅程？一念，決定一切。
當一個選擇被做出，藝術、生命與宇宙將在同一點上交匯，揭示出我們內在的無限潛能。
—— CK
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