2025
19 A1 square drawings, computer plotter, custom programming, carbon

Through a series of drawings, Semiconductor explore the fundamental uncertainty of the quantum realm, challenging our perceptions of physical reality.

Using a single, continuous line, each drawing maps the probabilistic nature of electron orbitals, where precise location dissolves into fields of potential. The lines oscillate between random generation and scientific mapping, embodying how through the observation of quantum systems, it transforms reality itself.

Created through a messy custom process of hand-making carbon paper and then scratching away with a computer plotter, the drawings expose the artifacts of their making, emphasising the inherent “noise” and unpredictability of quantum systems. They do not represent electrons but enact the very impossibility of representing something that exists everywhere and nowhere at once.

These drawings invite viewers to reconsider fundamental assumptions about space and time and the nature of material existence: Is a particle a point in space or the wave of a line in time?

The production of Probable Drawings was supported by Tabakalera, International Center of Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián, Spain.