2021 - present

Quantum Drawings interrogates quantum computing — a technology on the verge of transforming computation — by building intuition through aesthetics rather than mathematics. The works are based on actual data from quantum computers: the values of entangled quantum bits and the noise generated during decoherence, when quantum states collapse back into classical reality.

The drawings emerge by applying different visualization parameters to this data, searching for visual patterns and structures within quantum behavior. Rather than explaining quantum phenomena, the work creates conditions for felt encounter with them — developing non-mathematical intuition through direct engagement with what these machines actually produce.

There’s a temporal paradox embedded in the project: quantum computers are expected to eventually break the cryptographic systems securing blockchain technology. Many of these drawings, minted as NFTs, exist on infrastructure that quantum computing may one day render insecure—technology undermining its own foundations.

The phases below trace the development of visual methodologies for organizing quantum data, investigating how aesthetic systems might establish meaning within the fundamental uncertainty of quantum measurement.

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Exhibition History