I started the Quantrian project to explore the experience of color through structure and form. Inspired by the artwork of modern art masters of geometry and color — Mark Rothko, Piet Mondrian, Ellsworth Kelly, and others — Quantrian uses the pure forms of square, circle, and line to experiment with hue and shade. As an ode to Vera Molnár’s “machine imaginaire,” I first imagined a world of abstract geometric paintings where randomness replaced whim and intuition, then I created it, designing and coding complex generative algorithms to explore this aesthetic. To make it as unpredictable as possible, Quantrian algorithms base their decisions of color, arrangement, angle, layering, blending modes, and more on the volatile, moment-by-moment measurements of quantum energy fluctuations in a laboratory vacuum chamber. No system could predict the readings, and therefore no system could reproduce the same process and results. By fusing the contextuality of color with the surprise of randomness and the impermanence of fleeting opportunity, each Quantrian painting is a unique fragment of our profound human experience.