Brad Baumgartner
The quantum world, like the mystical, is anonymous, aporetic, hidden. In order to view this strange realm—one filled with particles darting in and out of nowhere; of what Einstein once famously called “spooky action at a distance”—this collection takes as its subject matter a myriad of interfacings—quantum physics, mysticism, cryptography, impersonality, and meontology, to name a few. Playfully rigorous and rigorously playful, Quantum Mechantics experimentally indexes a poetic form of ludic hopping (hop, from Old English hoppian “to spring, leap; to dance; to limp”). These text objects perform as the quantum world does: boggling and indeterminate, we discover a subatomic, quantum poetry-without-us—one that paradoxically exists only when observed.
