Astrophysicist Kip Thorne won the 2017 Nobel Prize for the discovery of gravitational waves.
Abstraction of gravitational wave science and the discovery of gravitation waves created by the merger to to black holes.
Schwarzchild Metric ,as written by Kip Thorne, is the solution to the Einstein field equations that describes the gravitational field outside a spherical mass like a black hole.
sound wave signals generated by gravitational waves. Source: LIGO.
The Cosmic Microwave Background temperature fluctuations from the 7-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data seen over the full sky.
Simulation of a collapsing super nova
The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy.
Hubble Space Telescope.
In 2017, Professor Kip Thorne won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of gravitational waves but only after becoming the godfather of black hole theory along with Steven Hawking.
I wanted to figure out a way do a conceptual piece about the science. The piece is made of images from scientific sources like NASA, LIGO and the European Space Agency.
Dr. Thorne gave me 20 minutes to photograph him, 10 of which were used writing formulas. I would have loved more time to work him but am grateful for the time I had with him.
Some of the source images are included below the art piece. The math was reviewed by Prof. Thorne and all numbers and readings are pulled from the LIGO Site.
The hardest part was translating relevant images into art elements, all of which were relevant to Kip's work on black hole theory and gravitational wave physics. The second hardest part was training myself to paint and create in Photoshop.
I don't know if the work will gain tractions but I hope so.
At the moment all pieces are strictly digital but if the work takes off, I plan on turning them into mixed media pieces.
Since I have no reputation for this kind of work, I needed to create proof of concept pieces so the scientists would take me seriously and consider participating in the project. There were initially three concept pieces I worked on using stand in subjects to illustrate my ideas and abilities. This is piece represents the first scientist that agreed to participate in the project.
I will post additional pieces in the near future.
The second pieces is a corollary and purely conceptual piece about gravitational wave physics.
