New Quantum Memory

  • Dates
    2025 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Location Canada, Canada

New Memory Quantum is a body of work that navigates the intersection of science and art through a hybrid lens, at once cosmological and deeply personal. It is a meditation on trauma, mystery, and the expansive unknowns that define inner and outer space.

New Memory Quantum is an ongoing body of work that navigates the intersection of science and art through a hybrid lens, at once cosmological and deeply personal. At its core, the series is a meditation on trauma, mystery, and the expansive unknowns that define both outer and inner space.

Using a combination of both personal and archival imagery, alongside analog processes such as wet plate photography and experimental, camera-less techniques, I aim to construct visual narratives that resist resolution. These images are not linear stories, but constellations — what may first appear as unrelated fragments begin to reveal a network of contextualizations: cosmogenesis, precarity, memory, and absence.

Through the language of entropy and transformation, the series invites viewers to confront the beauty that emerges from disintegration. Stars decay, the universe stretches ever outward, black holes devour and irradiate matter, yet from these phenomena arise new forms, new meanings. This visual inquiry is not just about the vastness of space, but about the fragility of existence, the uncertainty of memory, and the spectral presence of what has been lost.

New Memory Quantum proposes that in the ruins of both cosmic and personal collapse, a different kind of beauty takes root — one grounded in the revelations of impermanence and the quiet poetics of what remains. Entropy becomes the conveyor for a new beauty grounded in the revelations of loss.

New Quantum Memory by Ben Dickey

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