Dr Jorden Senior is a visual artist and quantum physicist living in Helsinki, Finland, growing up in the north of England. Working at the meeting point of superconducting physics and photography, Senior explores how images hold together—and fall apart—under chemical and temporal stress.
Their practice spans analogue and ditial. In the darkroom they work with mixed standard and alternative techniques, including B/W and RA4 printing, lith printing, chromoskedasic and classic Sabattier, lumen exposures, and mordencage on fibre and RC papers. In parallel they experiment with intentional camera movement (ICM), slit‑scan and other time‑based captures, with outputs that include thermal‑paper prints, two‑colour Risograph and small‑run zines. The aim is to let materials speak: to court controlled failure and read its traces—veils, lifts, halos, drift—not as errors but as evidence.
Years spent building superconducting quantum hardware and working in the cleanroom inform the work’s rigour: environmental control, measurement, sensitivity to initial conditions. Observation changes the system; the studio leans into that fact, entangling quantum and art.
Alongside images, they write short essays on the philosophy of photography and sometimes pair series with music. They also prototype small quantum games for jams and exhibitions, exploring quantum art as interactive, playable systems.
This site is a working notebook: finished series alongside experiments, game prototypes, process notes, failures and the occasional musing on images, materials and sound.
Quantum Art in flux.