Victor M Ramos

Ever since I was a boy I noticed that I seemed to see and experience things differently than most people around me.  I seemed to be able to see patterns and details that other people couldn’t or wouldn’t see.  I also had more difficulty connecting with other people.   There seemed to be rules of relationships and engagement that others knew intuitively but that were foreign and enigmatic to me.

In my fifth decade I was diagnosed with being on the autistic spectrum.  With that, a great many of my life experiences and history made sense and fell into place like puzzle pieces. 

Autism is known as a spectrum condition, that is, there is a set of defining characteristics such as difficulty in making eye contact, sensitivity to sound,  sheer brilliance and genius, lack of social awareness, and some others.  However, not anyone on the spectrum will display all of the characteristics.  There is a saying in the community, that when you have met one person on the spectrum, you have met one person on the spectrum.

Temple Grandin, one of the most well known and accomplished autistic persons has said that we on the spectrum are like Martian anthropologists, we find ourselves here on Earth and we spend our time trying to figure out the the stupid rules. (She actually did not say "stupid", that was my addition ...)

Sometimes life has been very tough on the spectrum, but I would not trade it for anything.  For me personally, the benefits and strengths have outweighed the challenges and difficulties.  Besides, autism is not a disease that you have, like the flu or cancer.  It is part of who you are.  “Cure it”, and you will not longer be yourself, but somebody else completely.

With this project, I have tried to show what it feels like to live and exist on the spectrum, here on Earth. 

It is my hope that this photo project may help parents of children on the spectrum visualize a bit more of their child’s inner life.

This instant that you are reading these words, has been in the future since the beginning of time.  Now the moment has past, and will be in history for the rest of eternity.  Our consciousness passes through much too quickly.

This series is about what may happen in the future, but is really about how humanities ideas, beliefs and philosophies affect individual and collective behavior.  I find it so interesting that ideas, something that has no physical existence, indeed, barely exists at all, drives all of humanities endeavors, for good or ill.

Will humanity construct a utopia? A dystopia?  How could it tell?

As Yogi Berra said: “It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future”.

I am a big fan of the early modern art movement, including Dada and Sur-realism. I am a big fan of Yves Tanguy, Dali, Jean Arp, Escher, Magritte, Vasarely, etc.

One day, as I was walking into the office, I saw these surrealistic distortions reflecting off of some of the buildings I inhabit. Since then, I have seen and recorded these images on buildings all over the world.

I think they are cool looking.

In this body of work, I delve into the enigmatic realm of quantum mechanics, transforming abstract scientific principles into tangible, evocative photographic objects.

My artistic journey is driven by a fascination with the unseen forces that govern our universe, and I seek to capture these elusive phenomena through the (non)lens of fine art photography and share their beauty with everyone.

Quantum mechanics reveals a world where particles exist in states of probability rather than certainty, where observation alters reality, and where the boundaries between observer and observed dissolve.

My artistic process involves a dynamic interplay between chance and intention, mirroring the probabilistic essence of quantum mechanics. The resulting images are both structured and spontaneous, capturing moments of transition and transformation.

In presenting these quantum-inspired photographic objects, I invite viewers to ponder the nature of reality and their place within it. The interplay between light energy, form and perception serves as a metaphor for the quantum dance of existence, encouraging a deeper contemplation of the universe’s mysteries.

Ultimately, my work is a dialogue between science and art, between the known and the unknown. It is an exploration of how scientific principles can transcend the laboratory and inspire a new visual language, one that captures the profound, beautiful and often paradoxical nature of our universe.