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The Fundamental Physics of Touch 2024
33 x 43 cm
Screen print and letterpress on paper
Six editions of four

The screen prints are made from a python program that plots solutions to the Schrödinger equation for electrons in the hydrogen atom at various energy levels. What you see is the pattern that would emerge if you took 20,000 measurements of the electron's position. The Pauli exclusion principle states that these forms are forbidden to overlap. This—along with the electromagnetic force causing electrons to repel—is what keeps atoms separate. Instead of coalescing, we touch.