Artwork Record
Quantum Transformation II: Magritte
About this work
Based on Magritte's The Son of Man (1964). The whole canvas is split into 16 × 20 tiles and everything except the apple is displaced, using ibm_sherbrooke for the upper half and ibm_strasbourg for the mirrored lower half, so the most-evolved content sits in the middle band. The revealed face was composed with reference to Magritte's La bonne foi (1965).
Technique
Each painting is divided into a square lattice with tile columns assigned to qubits. A Trotterized time evolution under an Ising Hamiltonian runs on IBM superconducting hardware (Qiskit, 4,096 shots, no error mitigation), and the measured ⟨Z⟩ expectation values set the order of the tiles. The chosen result is then painted by hand in oil on wooden panel.
Quantum Systems
Technique drawn from the Quantum Transformation collection.
- Collection
- Quantum Transformation
- Year
- 2025
- Medium
- Oil on wooden panel
- Status
- Exhibited work
References4
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