Remedios Varo, Barriers and Evanescence

Dr. Steven B Halls | December 2025

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In Remedios Varo's art, the human can represent a torus and the clothing can be several layers of "barrier", the outer torus barrier and the barrier around the core, and these can be showing us symbolically what happens in the core. Barriers are often shown with a shaggy outer surface, which is equivalent to the fiery surfaces, little line surfaces.

In Remedios Varo's art the human can represent a torus and the clothing can be layers of barrier, the outer torus barrier and the barrier around the core. Barriers often have a shaggy outer surface equal to the fiery or little line surfaces, and physicists use evanescence for that ghostly effect around particles or flux tubes. The core is always in higher density, shown as a smaller new reality, and pressing two tubes together can open a gap that returns when they separate.

I learned from Gemini AI this past weekend that "evanescence" is used by physicists for a "ghostly effect" in some circumstances, like around certain particles or flux tubes. The AI also accepted "fuzz" as a descriptor of those barrier outer surfaces.

Image D has a few important concepts. The core is always in higher-density / higher-dimension, and can be depicted as a "new reality", like a different and smaller forest. The ring of rope, I assume it is intact, but part of it disappeared because of the high-density effect. I was searching for a way to show how de-tangling of flux tubes can occur. (Like, for long distance "quantum entanglement" by long tubes). Being able to form a gap, simply by pressing against another tube, could create a high enough density to make the gap, ( a piece of the rope/tube vanishes), and once the tubes separate again, the gap returns into our reality as intact rope/tube.