{"id":1830,"date":"2016-11-18T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:47:58","slug":"1830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"The Swerve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This exhibition explored Lucretius\u2019s concept of the Clinamen, borrowed from Epicurean atomism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It describes the unpredictable swerve of atoms as they move through space.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>These atomic interactions and collisions, caused by the clinamen, are the trigger for cosmic events.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Lucretius believed without this unpredictable swerve, free will would be impossible due to determinism and an objective universe as we know it would not exist because necessary atomic interactions for complexity wouldn\u2019t occur.<\/p>\n<p>The Clinamen bridges the invisible atomic world and the tangible classical world of objects and form. It\u2019s the same blip of data, the perturbance in the fabric of the universe, that brings things into existence for as part of our experiences.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Similarly, these paintings engages with material phenomena, energy and atomic vibrations, moving from intuition to visual sensations.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Paul Thomas, <i>Quantum Art and Uncertainty.<\/i> Bristol: Intellect Ltd, 2018.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1830 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1831'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7222-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7222-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7222-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7222-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7222-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1832'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7221-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7221-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7221-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7221-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7221-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1833'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7214-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7214-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7214-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7214-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7214-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1834'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7211-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7211-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7211-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7211-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7211-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1835'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7210-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7210-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7210-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7210-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7210-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This exhibition explored Lucretius\u2019s concept of the Clinamen, borrowed from Epicurean atomism.\u00a0 It describes the unpredictable swerve of atoms as they move through space.\u00a0 These atomic interactions and collisions, caused by the clinamen, are the trigger for cosmic events.\u00a0 Lucretius believed without this unpredictable swerve, free will would be impossible due to determinism and an&#8230; 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