This painting shows the "Trudelturm", a heritage-listed, aerodynamics testing lab in Berlin built in the mid-1930s. If it were possible to expose this building to the Synchrotron Light from the nearby particle accelerator, I imagine the light flooding the sealed-off interior of the brutalist-style architecture, emanating outwards through the massive concrete, ultimately causing the dissolution of solid matter into pure energy.
Acrylic ink, oil and wax pastels on canvas
68 cm x 50 cm / 26.75" x 19.5"
An artist residency at the particle accelerator here in Berlin opened up the world of particle- and astrophysics to me. Electrons race at light speed through the particle accelerator, generating a very specific kind of radiation, called “Synchrotron Light”, as they go. This light is harnessed and used to observe how materials react to shifts in environmental conditions. In a way, scientists can “see” deep into the interior of solid matter.
But all that the scientists actually see are the data: numbers, graphs, tables. As an artist, I would like to instead literally see what things look like, visually, at the subatomic level. But of course that’s impossible. The “Electron Universes” series explores how invisible and intangible spaces might look if we could see them with our own eyes.
Signed on the front and titled on the back.
The edges are painted in matching colours so that you don't need to frame the artwork. It comes ready to hang as is.
