Passion Flower

So I was in a garden-shop, peacefully browsing one the greenhouses...when something tapped my head. I look up to see the most shocking alien mandala projecting from some sort of hanging vine. It is entrancing. the complexity of the bloom was hard to accept. But there it was. And it smelled like grape candy. They call it a passion flower.I stared and stared and it haunted me for 2 weeks until I finally had to go back and buy it and take it home. The internet oracle tells me this:
The Legend. Legend has it that in 1620 a Jesuit priest in Peru came across the plant we now know as passion flower. Enthralled with its beauty, that night he had a vision likening its floral parts to the elements of the Crucifixion or Passion of Christ. The five petals and five sepals became the ten apostles (omitting Peter and Judas). The three pistils became the nails of the cross; the purple corona (or filaments) was the crown of thorns, and the stemmed ovary was the Lord's goblet.
crazy. Here are pics of the first bloom in my house.*mesmerized sigh*

Slipping into the Sixth Realm

Well if it isn't WEDNESDAY. heh.
My grounding half has gone to take care of business upstate and the solitude in this house is charged and moody. It wells up from inside me. 'Reality' unravels as it is prone to do. Light speaks.I work on my artworks in the garage, the air is cold. Back inside, I sit at the kitchen table and stare at the grey daylight, reflecting off of objects, muted yet so electric. I am being pulled into another realm and I resist, feeling the fear. Tears come and I don't know why. I don't understand. But it is no use. I long for wine, to help my transition, to help me welcome and accept whatever comes, instead of this nervous resistance.
I finally agree to pick up some wine and now with only the first glass and a sweet dark chocolate I am giving in. Twilight is near.I am calm. I let go. I welcome the strangeness.I am willing to see.

Entanglement

Working on my artwork...the piece I will call Entanglement. I search the web and read up some more on the subject from all sorts of articles.Hours pass. There is a new book I would like to find and read on the subject as well.Anyhoo, here are some snippets:
From Library Journal:
"Entanglement" is one of the more remarkable aspects of quantum mechanics, a field that has produced a number of counterintuitive phenomena. Entangled particles are created in the same process and retain a connection even if they become far separated physically. If a change is later imposed on one of these particles, then there instantaneously occurs a change with its entangled partner, even if that partner is very far away in another part of the universe. Thus, the news of the change is transmitted with infinite velocity by an unknown means. Einstein aptly referred to this phenomenon as "spooky." In recent decades, researchers have shown entanglement to be a physical fact, thereby vindicating quantum mechanics, spooky though it may be.

From Scientific American:
Trillions Entwined
Clouds of Atoms Are Linked By A Weird Quantum Yoke(avaD's note: ha. that should be the descriptive subtitle to my artwork)
By Graham P. Collins

"....Entanglement, long just a controversial plaything for theorists, is the weird phenomenon whereby the quantum states of two or more objects become intrinsically entwined in a partnership that in theory would remain unbroken across a distance of light-years. Previously achieved with only a few particles at a time, this marvel has now been demonstrated with two golfball-size clouds of cesium containing trillions of atoms. Eugene S. Polzik and his co-workers at the University of Århus in Denmark entangled the cesium clouds by shooting laser pulses through them. The process will enable robust new ways to teleport quantum states and store information in quantum memories, an essential element of the emerging technology of quantum computation."