To play is to recognize the inner workings of intuition in "Quantum Art'.

 DAVID W. McCULLOUGH - 

For fifty years my 'Quantum' paintings, sculpture, and all works on paper have been concerned with capturing nature's light energy , color, and geological crystalline Geomancy.  I have been using an audio visual approach to exploring Her mysterious complexities through field trips and studio work. My quantum art is multi - disciplinary.. It consists mainly of nature field research and originating creative innovative uses for all mediums in conjunction with studies of the disciplines of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Crystallography,  Geology, Physics, Bio - physics, Mythology,, and Music, art, and poetry. I have also been practicing Transcendental meditation since 1969.

I have made watercolor field trips to   National Parks throughout the Southwestern U.S.A., mostly in the  ‘canyon circle’ area of the Four Corners area (Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado ), as well as parks in India and Australia, notating their seasonal color, rhythmical poetic spirit, textures, and geological rock formations. These journeys also brought me face to face on my hikes with Native American and Australian Aboriginal Cultural history in the form of petroglyhs and pictographic stories. These visual encounters have deeply enriched my painting application of materials and the poetics of my own story telling. The main objective of the field watercolor painting and musical collage interface with natural phenomena was to explore on site nature's colorful holistic psyche, resonate through a variety of musical sounds and  emotions with its geomantic crystalline order, and sacred geometrical properties. The mineralogical properties of color pigment and their earth formed geometry has assisted me in ordering the entrainment process; along with quartz crystals. The mediums of watercolor, drawing, poetry, photography and music are the foundation stones of quantum studio compositions. I have used these nature insights to instill into my Taoist vision of art a special geometrically ordered sacred quality of coloration that best describes her spirit and holistic character.  My comparative studies of the Earth's holistic psyche and its geological spirit in our ecosystem, as well as my painting experiences at Aboriginal rock painting sites in Australia and sacred Native American sites throughout the Southwestern outback, have energized my artistic pursuit of creative quantum ways of using the holistic earth energy rhythms, plant consciousness, the mineral kingdom, and all of nature's  magnificent color processing systems in my artworks. 

 My ethnographic studies of the sacred nature and the cultural operating systems of the Native American and Aboriginal rock painting traditions,  their Dreamtime stories, and rituals have been truly transformative.  My sketchbooks are full of a collection of nature studies, poetry, and graphic depictions that are a constant reminder of my field experiences. These references are the quantum incentives that spark creative consciousness and have given an informed context and content to the multiple layered imagery,  alchemy, and audiovisual color resonance of my sonic expressive abstractions. In addition, these artworks also generate many micro - macro cosmological insights. 

I have always used water based art mediums to paint and express my 'water- being' human (we are 70% water consciousness) nature. I have always painted my watercolors on the ground at each nature site, to feel and generate from their holistic earth forces, beneath and around me, vibrating resonance fields of energy that when combined with the recorded musical information would generate new heart and hand rhythmical sensations that could enhance my quantum coherent participation in the expressive  magic of watercolor painting and visual entrainment with the forms and processes of a nature site. The musical sounds and the instruments (many crafted from earth and animal materials) from cultures all over the world, especially American Jazz, created in me an intuitive ability to freely express spontaneously in accord with their passion and musical knowledge of rhythmical sequences and spacing, pure expressions of a harmonic balanced spirit filled synthesis of both . 

These talented musicians and their instrumental sonic resonance have assisted me in feeling, expressing, and interpreting through my eyes, ears, and primarily the heart, nature's sacred colorful ordering systems, and its rhythmical lyrical psyche. These cultural and nature infused audio - visual insights are embedded with a cosmological significance and a soulful spirit energy. These color filled contemplative artworks from each nature site reflect the poetic  sacred holistic vibrations from our Mother Earth and her divine geological and botanical micro/macro spirit world. 

The aesthetic character of my journeys into the intuitive world of my inner 'sanctum sanctorum' is grounded in nature, sonic musical vibrations, and fifty years of knowledge of the 'physics of color energy'.   I have woven into the poetic color cosmology, patterns of Geomantic order, a diverse contrast of cultural aesthetic sensibilities, that playfully generate throughout each artwork's color energy fields a spirit of lyrical harmonic optimism.  I have cross referenced through this aesthetic 'play,' a transformation of knowledge from all the science disciplines into  quantum coherent insights into how music, art, and poetry can interact and represent new dimensions of our creative potential, thus creating artworks that  reorder and map out new states of consciousness for our viewing pleasure. 

As a multi - disciplinary 'Quantum' artist I use many different mediums to formulate the color chemistry and the physics of its optical nature and expressive qualities in my painting, sculpture, watercolor, collage, ceramics, and digital mixed mediums.  The medium of music (Jazz, rock, and world) is always used to assist me exciting my quantum potential and soul spirit. The process of listening and acting in accord with various mediums is something I have always done to be totally integrated in the creative process. For me, this interaction with sound and color energy, is about the 'performance' of your true self- being in accord with a deep sense of respect for your intuition. The 'Quantum Way' is the creative processing of your true biological nature and its many levels of an intelligent flow of consciousness. The performance of this intelligence through music, art materials, in a poetic aesthetic manner must come from the heart first. The manner in which the material realm of the artworks speak has to resonate through the spirit of coloration and a depth of rhythmical sensibility for the graceful power of gestural expression of your intentions. 

 Each discipline calls for the creation of different materials, chemistry, processes, and techniques that allow for the maximum degree of participation of one's artistic abilities. I was also trained as a print-maker, so I have learned to use the commercial print resources in my community, as well as other industrial resources, to translate one medium to another and construct new combinations for new quantitative explorations of mediums that can evolve beyond academic boundaries and categorization.   Probing for new uses to process color energy through music, art technology, and poetry in my quantum artworks is my main creative objective.  Color synthesizing of new combinations of mediums through sound vibrations is the heart path my artworks are riding on.  Like 'Free Jazz' my art relies on improvisation to inspire its aesthetic potential and soulful presence. 

 Introduction to Quantum Art Aesthetic mapping of creative consciousness:  This is a personal aesthetic quest to find the meaning of spirit and soul in my art making processes and the basis of the creative consciousness that inhibits them. This search for an understanding of the intuitional basis of my art has led me to construct metaphorical relationships that have the ability to expand the dynamic qualities of creativity and widen the field of new discoveries. My aesthetic navigational need to travel back in time or the 'taking of the quantum leap ' backward allowed me to challenge many of the conceptions of how I had retained the conscious awareness I was born with and into through the lives of my parents, place of birth, and cultural heritage.  By using the 'navigational' metaphor I could develop a 'mapping strategy' to discover what were the important effects of life connections I had inherited. This process of mapping became a way of using it to as a metaphor to explore the question, "what is the meta - for? in order to keep the big creative picture in focus. I took the mapping metaphor into play with my need to navigate the cultural avenues, influences, and aesthetic pathways and gave it a M.A.P. identity that its letters represented a cultural formula of M for music, A for art, and P for poetry. These three art forms became the beginning of my cultural navigation of creative consciousness. This triad was expanded to the research also of connections in other disciplines such as the science of epigenetic,  biology, biophysics, physics, ecology, chemistry, sacred geometry and water  research. The M.A.P. strategy and use of a wide range of insights from the sciences directed me to the people, places. and technology needed to further my search for new ways of processing creative intelligence.  This knowledge is for creative individuals who would like to expand their horizons and trust their intuitional sense of awareness. each artist must map out and navigate their own strategy and processes of creative discovery. I was eventually led by these mapping methods after many years of exploring to the realization that the insights I came to embrace from them, nature and the teachings of physicists and biophysicists needed to be solidified into an aesthetic approach that had depth, fluidity, and one key element that would keep my search for the use of creative consciousness quantitatively coherent, water.