Dragon’s Eyes

Luca Pozzi’s Dragon’s Eye series presents a mesmerizing collection of “Light Drawings,” ephemeral traces captured by exciting a phosphorous surface with an ultraviolet LED. These luminous gestures are photographed and preserved in a rigorous dodecagonal format just moments before their inevitable disappearance, freezing a transient event into a permanent geometric relic.

Beyond its technical execution, the work serves as a profound interdisciplinary bridge, touching upon the most radical frontiers of quantum gravity. In this theoretical framework, space and time are not pre-existing containers but are thought to “emerge” from deeper, non-spatiotemporal degrees of freedom. The “Dragon’s Eye” mimics this process of emergence: the light does not simply move across a background, but rather creates the very coordinates of the event as it manifests.

The choice of the dragon as a central mythological figure is particularly evocative of quantum mechanics. Much like a particle in a state of superposition, the dragon is a chimera—a creature that is simultaneously bird, reptile, and fire, existing in a hybrid state of “both/and” rather than “either/or.” In this sense, the dragon represents the wave function itself, containing all possible outcomes before the “classical observer” intervenes. The act of photographing the light drawing acts as the measurement or the process of decoherence, where the fluid, mythological uncertainty of the quantum world is forced to collapse into a single, visible, and “classical” reality.