Thank you for visiting. I’m an experimenter working in Santa Fe, NM.

As a research engineer in the semiconductor industry, I used synchrotrons and electron microscopes to probe how structure forms and builds on itself in novel nanoelectronic materials only a few atoms thick! Although we live in a world of increasing entropy where everything ages, deteriorates and breaks down, patterns of order do emerge. My photographs capture elegant structure on the scale of our everyday lives, often hidden in plain sight.
During the pandemic I published a book of photographs and wrote, directed and performed the original soundtrack for the award winning art documentary film Fleeting Structure that features 10 artistic categories illustrating fluid flow and crystal growth. You may screen the 50 minute film as well as a more scientific 44 minute SciArt presentation in the film section of this website. 

My photos may be arranged in surreal multi-exposure layers including mirror symmetry, typically with musical elements. I exhibited a subset of Noir Images at the Florence Biennale 2023 and Art Dubai 2024. Along with painting and photography, I am routinely engaged in spontaneous nonverbal dialogue with other improvising musicians as a member of the Avant Jazz Workshop - where sound structures build and evolve in real time.

In addition to a career spent in the surreal world of quantum mechanics, I taught physics and the University of New Mexico and acoustics at the College of Santa Fe while serving on funding panels for the New Mexico Arts Division for categories of Music, Artist-in-Residence and Interdisciplinary Projects. I was jury selected as a Featured Artist by the European Circle Foundation for the Arts in 2021 as an artist who exemplifies “current trends and original practices that tell the story of what visual art looks like today.” My photographs are featured in many books including Art in Dialogue with Nature celebrating the 360th anniversary of Daniel Defoe and 170th of Antoni Gaudi (art book series: LOUNGE 2 – volume VII) published in Germany, 2022.

Enjoy the site. - Patrick Lysaght

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