Bettina Brendel


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Windows to a New Dimension
In my work, I visualize the sub-atomic world of elementary particles photons and electrons, and how their interactions create patterns and symmetries. These are magnifications of processes that occur in nature, but are inaccessible to the human eye except through the use of powerful instru-ments. I see the artist as a participant in the creative discoveries and inventions of our century.
Over the years I have worked toward developing a symbolic language to express ideas that deal with the physics of light and energy. Imagine that we had a seventh sense that could penetrate matter, magnify it and reveal its secrets to us. Imagine that this penetrating power could defy time and place, preserve what is perishable, predict what is still distant in the future, and then realize that we have this instrument with us every day. It is our mind which explores the unknown, which can enlarge and focus on hidden details in nature and enter into vibrations of energies from the past to the future.

Explorations in Art and Technology, 2002
 
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