The ensemble of sculptures express organic forms, mirroring how I imagine particle points appear in nature at the moment of transmogrifying from energy into matter. On becoming, each quantum particle embodies values that differentiate one from the other, as do the sculptures. Each undulating sculpture emerges from once-molten wax, representing the coagulation of energy, the beginning of matter.

The sculptures’ small scale suggests the scale of particle points. But particles emerge at the scale of a Planck Length. This measurement of space and time is the smallest possible – a million of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter. At this scale, physicist Brian Greene says the universe is a “seething, boiling cauldron of frenzied fluctuations. Here and over there, up and down, before and after, have yet to be determined by nature.” The sculptures presented here are relatively small as they relate to the human scale. Still, relative to the scale they are describing, they are monumental, “taller than the Empire State Building, larger than the Pyramids.” In relation to the particles' minuscule quantum size, these sculptures may be the most enormous artworks an artist has created in the history of humankind!  ---- Jim Holl