Title: In an infinite universe, there is no room for chaos.
SRO #089
Size: 4.5x4.5
Date: 2021
Medium: Watercolor on 140-pound cold pressed paper
Status: In private collection.
Note: There’s an old riddle that Smooth Ray has been thinking about lately: “If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound?”
The scientific answer is pretty straightforward — No, because sound requires an ear to interpret vibration. No ear, no sound.
However, the question is really about perception and existence. It asks one to consider, does an unperceived object exist?
The wikipedia page for this “riddle” (or perhaps it is a zen koan) is fascinating.
The question is often attributed to the philosopher George Berkeley, but its modern format didn’t evolve until 200 years after he wrote, in 1710:
“The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden... no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.”
We make our world through the act of perceiving it. Which is to say, we are our world — we are not separate from it.
YOU ARE LOVE.
