for Jonea - artist friend and renaissance woman
and Bunie, whose culture fascinates me through my art
I am capable of touching the divine
an aesthete
who discovered beauty
in my surroundings
both superficial and the unapparant
my artist's eyes, ears and lips
shaping and composing
from the microscopic to the macroscopic
finding the spark of beauty
everywhere
in the simple to the intricate
like schrodinger's cat *
my observations
change the world
and me
from birth Saraswati*
whispered in my ears
seducing me
to worship on her altar
of creation and inspiration
posessed
I became
interconnected to the world
observer and participant
evolved and evolving
giving birth to expressions
and a flowering
of sounds previously unheard
of words uncomposed
and beauty undrawn
now
forever immortalized
Notes:
1. Schrodinger's Cat - is a thought experiment, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger to demonstrate the problems arising from the theory of quantum mechanics when going from a subatomic to a macroscopic system.
According to quantum mechanics, a physical system can be in a superposition (mixture) of states (such as "decayed" and "not decayed"). Only when a measurement is performed by an observer, the system "collapses" into one of the states -- which is the state seen by the observer.
Schrodinger's experiment involves a sealed box (allowing no interference from the outside), which contains a cat, and a closed canister of poisonous gas. Attached to the gas canister is a mechanism containing a radioactive nucleus. When the nucleus decays, it emits a particle that triggers a mechanism which opens the canister, thereby killing the cat.
Since the nucleus, as long as it remains unobserved, is in a superposition of the "decayed" and "not decayed" states, then it logically follows that the cat must also be in a superposition of "alive" and "dead" states -- until the moment when the box is opened and its contents are observed by the scientist performing the experiment. The cat's fate is decided only when the box is opened
2. Saraswati - Originally worshipped as the personificaton of the River Sarasvoti in northern India, she represented, fertility, abundance, and the life-giving flow of water. Later, she was attributed with the invention of human speech and writing, then with all the arts and knowledge. She is considered the patron goddess of writers and poets, and is honored in libraries in India with gifts of incense, fruit
