Process

Summoning the Luxon from the Sea of Dirac

2026
Assemblage with red laser, controller, touch sensor, white marble, antique iron panel, brass and resin-inlaid synthetic ivory (treated ABS), stainless steel armored cable, and bakelite electric plug. Generative light behavior developed in collaboration with ChatGPT / OpenAI
15 x 24 x 3 inches

Instruction:
You know where. Place your finger there until the Luxon appears, generates, and then depletes a new universe. You’ll have to wait 10 seconds before summoning again. Read on to find the secret touch code for triggering an exponentially accelerating creation/destruction sequence.

If one could be a photon, the experience would, according to well-recognized theory, be timelessness. The moment it leaves a star 8 bazillion light-years away is the same moment it reaches your eye. You waited 8Bz, but for the photon, it was already there. Yes! AND it has no mass. Photons are nuthin-everywhere-all-the-time things. We are also informed that a particle which has no mass and “experiences” no time is called a luxon. You are here to summon her—though she is already here… and there, where it’s always the present in a quantum Buddhist kind of way.

Quantum physics is a ridiculous hobby. You must commit and beat it into your head for years, or you merely dabble and develop a “huh” wrinkle in your forehead—that’s me, telling you how it is: There are endless fields in and around us of electrons, positrons, bosons, gravity… and dark energy particles. Some theorize a field of consciousness, which some call fundamental: the source-animator of all fields. “Field” is a word physicists bat around a lot. Imagine an endless field of lilies—but up, down… and across, filling all space. That is a quantum field model. But these are only potential lilies, or everything would be jam-packed lilies. Like flowers emerging from nuthin-photons through photosynthesis—our field-filled vacuum of space manifests an object. More precisely, the potential particles in an area of the field called “here” appear. If our object “moves” through space, the passage is an illusion: new particles snap into existence in the space it “moves” to, as particles behind snap out, and so on. Like a wave in a disturbed pond, the water isn’t moving outward—just up and down. Or in our case, in and out of existence. Can we say, perhaps, as consciousness passes through it?

There is a field named for the great physicist Paul Dirac. You may have guessed: “The Dirac Sea”… {and as Wikipedia continues}… “is a theoretical model of the electron vacuum as an infinite sea of electrons with negative energy. It was first postulated by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1930 to explain the anomalous negative-energy quantum states…” [1]
Let this be a lesson to those daring to read postmodern art descriptions. And since you did, you deserve this privy info: tap four times, hold that last one… and clench your teeth just right.