what if?

What If? is about our subtle awareness of possibilities. Our lives have the moments that actually happen, but we are also able to sense the thing that almost happened—and how things might have become slightly, or even drastically, different. It's about our awareness of something just outside of our periphery that we can never quite know.

“It's about our awareness of something just outside of our periphery that we can never quite know.”

The light-cone diagram toward the bottom is one way theorists map spacetime, showing the way light intersects at the present moment. I don't quite understand this idea cognitively, but I find it beautiful—especially because there's a part called elsewhere. It is a region that is there, but not experienced.

This piece also includes a graphic showing the migration of a neuron that is particularly associated with the development of our vision. This represents us stretching our minds, our mental vision, to consider “what if?”

There might be some anxiety and fear in it, or there might be hope and trust, or there might simply be curiosity about the unknown but possible.

Dare we say our favorite what ifs? What if we all use our time and energy to love every person for their unique and beautiful self, and only create systems that honor, use, and bring to life the incredible potential of combining diversity with working together in creative, problem-solving, visionary ways?

“WHAT IF we all use our time and energy to love every person for their unique and beautiful self, and only create systems that honor, use, and bring to life the incredible potential of combining diversity with working together in creative, problem-solving, visionary ways?”

I love to visualize this What If? I say we move it from elsewhere to here and now.

What If? was composed in Adobe Photoshop with scans of hand-made ink marks, photos, type, and graphics about biology and theories of time.