EDUARDO FUJII – The Uncertain Nature of Reality
Eduardo Fujii. Article on Art Market Magazine. The GOLD LIST Special Edition #4. Top Contemporary Artists of Today!
Eduardo Fujii is a self-taught fine art photographer living and working on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula in California. Early in his life, his parents introduced him to the arts and he fell in love with classical music and painting. Busy college life distracted him from his artistic path until about twelve years ago when he chose photography to express himself as an artist. His photography offers hints of the influence music and painting had and continue to have on his artistic style. His images have an unquestionable painterly look and are full of mystery and lyricism. There is always a beautiful prelude playing on the back of his mind when photographing.
Eduardo draws inspiration from various talented local photographers and also famous painters. Brigitte Carnochan, Elizabeth Opalenik, and Martha Casanave are just a few photographers that have had the most impact on Eduardo’s pursuit of a career in fine art photography. He likes to call himself “an artist with a camera.” He has shot with digital, film/toy/plastic, and pinhole cameras and is currently experimenting with lumen prints. His images almost never come straight from the camera however. He has a need to leave part of himself on his images, in effect making them self-portraits. Due to his background in painting, he likes images that have a painterly look. His techniques to achieve that include panning, long exposures, photographing through fog and smoke, and applying textures and cinematic effects in post-production.
Eduardo Fujii. Article on Art Market Magazine. The GOLD LIST Special Edition #4. Top Contemporary Artists of Today!
Eduardo has participated in gallery exhibitions at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, the Center for Photographic Art, the Cherry Center for the Arts, and Carmel Visual Arts in Carmel, California, the Museum of Monterey and Alvarado Gallery in Monterey, and has received various awards, including Spotlight Awards from B&W Magazine and Color Magazine, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Professional Photographer Magazine, Monochrome Awards, and the International Color Awards. One of Eduardo’s images was selected for the cover of Shadow & Light Magazine. In 2017, Eduardo was awarded Photographer of the Year at the 12th Annual Black and White Spider Awards.
Eduardo Fujii. Article on Art Market Magazine. The GOLD LIST Special Edition #4. Top Contemporary Artists of Today!
For my series “The Uncertain Nature of Reality”, I explore the logic-defying concepts of quantum mechanics with a rather loose artistic interpretation. I have always been interested in science and in quantum mechanics in particular, a branch of physics that makes us question fundamental concepts of the world we live in. How sure are we that our perceived reality is actually there? Quantum mechanics, which attempts to model nature at the sub-atomic level, postulates that there is a cause-effect relationship between reality and conscious observation. Because of that, it drew criticism from various scientists, including Albert Einstein, who disliked the “spooky” nature of the theory. My creation process starts with a concept that I have to understand well before attempting to represent. That may require days of reading and research. The more I dig, the more intriguing the theory becomes. The implementation of concepts consists of digitally composing and collaging images of ballet dancers in rehearsal with a variety of textures and painted layers. Concepts include results of experiments that cannot be explained by classical physics. The future can influence actions in the past. Quantum tunneling, superposition, and entanglement are other fascinating concepts of quantum mechanics that defy logic and make us question if this is actually science fiction.
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Eduardo Fujii. Article on Art Market Magazine. The GOLD LIST Special Edition #4. Top Contemporary Artists of Today!
The relevance of this topic today is the fact that we are just a few years away from the next significant technological leap, the advent of quantum computers, which are believed to be able to solve problems too complex for today’s classical computers and to allow machines to outsmart the human brain in a few years. Tech giants such as Google and IBM and top universities have already developed quantum computer prototypes and expect to achieve “quantum supremacy”, a term coined by American theoretical physicist John Preskill to refer to the speedup advantage over classical computers, in the next five years.
Eduardo Fujii. Article on Art Market Magazine. The GOLD LIST Special Edition #4. Top Contemporary Artists of Today!
Eduardo Fujii. Article on Art Market Magazine. The GOLD LIST Special Edition #4. Top Contemporary Artists of Today!
