Latin American: Be Wise Go Kind 2023 – TALK 5: Art and Awe: From Astrophysics to Quantum Mechanics

This talk was September 28 at 5:30 pm PDT. Please join us for the upcoming talks. You can find an overview here. You can also register here for the entire series and get access to the recording of this talk, and all the past talks. This talk is in English, with translation to Spanish.

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Beauty is an emergence marked by the experience of being unable to fully capture it with the aperture or finite attention of the human gaze. This experience … is greater than what we are able to comprehend in any one moment. It therefore always exceeds us in either time, space, or both. — Seffa Klein

As a young child growing up in northern Arizona, artist Seffa Klein (b.1996) would gaze at the star-studded night sky with a deep sense of wonder. As a student at UCLA, she studied astrophysics and art, recognizing the inherent harmony that exists between the two disciplines. As a professional artist, her multidisciplinary practice includes paintings composed with elemental metals, sculptures built with her SK Brick, drawing, installation, writing, and music. 

Klein plays with scale in her work, from vast planetary models of astronomy and astrophysics to the microscopic dimension of quantum mechanics. Her art has been exhibited in solo and group shows from Los Angeles to New York City, and is dedicated to envisioning “beautiful new ideologies, structures, and shapes, both physical and internal, for humanity’s uplifted future.” 

Learn more about Seffa Klein

This fifth talk Art and Awe: From Astrophysics to Quantum Mechanics with Seffa Klein is on Thursday, September 28, at 5:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). 

Timeline and recordings

This talk is part of the entire Be Wise Go Kind: Awaken Awe series, featuring a new talk every two weeks. You can find an easy overview of the series here. Following the series of talks, there will be a day-long experiential program with special guests, at Nalanda West in Seattle and online.

Recordings of the talks will be made available until Thursday, December 14, 2023. 

Pricing

This talk:

$ 21 – Standard ticket
$ 40 – Sponsor ticket (this helps us offer scholarships to those in need)

You can also register for the entire series: 

$ 108 – Standard ticket
$ 210 – Sponsor ticket (this helps us offer scholarships to those in need)

Curious about all the different talks? Please find an easy overview here. 

Scholarships

If none of these price options are accessible to you, please know we still want you to attend! Thanks to the generous offerings of our many supporters around the world, we are able to make this, and many more, programs accessible to all regardless of their financial situation. If you’re in need of a scholarship, please click here to access our scholarship page and fill in the form to request a scholarship.